 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 832 pages
...landlord for distraining for more rent than is really due to allege it to have been done maliciously, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent(r). 734 Repeated distresses for the same rent. — A landlord cannot lawfully distrain twice... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1877 - 838 pages
...perhaps, and yet actionable." (Jervis, Ch. J., Rogers v. Macnamara, 14 CB 37 ; ante, p. 134, note 2. "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it U done with a bad intent." (14 Albany Law Journal, 61, article copied from Southern Law Review, citing... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 912 pages
...Law Review, on Incidental Injuries from the exercise of Lawful Rights (14 Alb. LJ 81), he says : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because It is done with a ' bad Intent. ' This remark was made In a case where a landlord was charged with having maliciously distrained for... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 870 pages
...legal right to establish a new business, and his motives in doing so are not to be enquired into. 39 " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." 40 This remark was made in a case where a landlord was charged with having maliciously distrained for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1164 pages
...times, has stood and now stands ready to give. [3] In Quinn v. Letham, supra, Lord McNaghten, said: "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. That in my opinion is the sum and substance of Allen v. Flood, App. Cas. I (1898), and Lord Lindley... | |
 | John Mews, Arthur Horatio Todd - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1084 pages
...action agninst the other. Priestley v. /tovi/V-. 3 U. k С. 977; 34 LJ, Ex. 173. 2. TORTS. a. Generally. An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. Stecexmit v. Уеи-nliam, 13 C. li. 285— Ex. Ch. The plaintiffs alleged in their statement of claim... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 810 pages
...complain of." This he considers a mere truism. '. Baron Parke said in Stevenson v. Newnham, 13 C. B., 285: "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." And Judge Black, in Jenkins v. Fowler, •24 Penn. St., 308, declares: "Any transaction which Payne... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 672 pages
...was a ministerial one, and the allegation of malice is immaterial : Ferguson v. Earl of Kinnoull (8). An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable merely because it is done with a bad intent : Stevenson v. Newnham(S)per Parke, B., p. 297. Here no... | |
 | Law - 1913 - 1174 pages
...ou \ the part of the party exercising his rights j be the legal substitute or equivalent for the j thing amiss, which is one of the necessary elements of a wrong." Again, on page 688 of the same work It is said: "What was said in the opening chapter of the work,... | |
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An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad Intent. 
