 | Thomas Atkins Street - Actions and defenses - 1906 - 542 pages
...B., afterwards Lord Wensleydale, in giving the judgment of an exceptionally strong court, said : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent."8 Malice wm In that case the question was whether a count was good which u°wfuinactr averred... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1907 - 1036 pages
...motives make a bad act worse, but they cannot make that a wrong which in its own essence is lawful." "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent."** "Any trans*» Goodlander Mill Co. v. Standard Oil Co., 63 Fed. 400, 11 CC A. 253. " Conway T. Lewlston,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 958 pages
...distraining for more rent than was due. is bad, though it alleges 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. 2. Fraud only gives a right to avoid a contract or purchase. Property acquired by fraud vests until... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 782 pages
...in Allen v. flood is thus summed up by Lord Macnaghten in Qidnn v. Leathern, [1901] AC, 495, 509 : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent " (cf. p. 533, per Lord Lindley). In the latter case it was held that violation of a legal right committed... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1907 - 1028 pages
...motives make a bad act worse, but they cannot make that a wrong which in its own essence is lawful." "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be ac tionable because it is done with a bad intent."" "Any trans »» Goodlander Mill Co. v. Stand- «... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1908 - 784 pages
...improper or even malicious "(/.•). And it is generally true that "an act which does not amount to u legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent " (/). Roman As regards the use of property, the lloman lawyers of"ani- held that " animus vicino nocendi... | |
 | Harry Dwight Nims - Business - 1909 - 640 pages
...threat at all. He simply warned others against certain acts." Lord MacNaghten says in the same case, " 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;"30 and Lord Lindley says that the... | |
 | Railroad law - 1910 - 872 pages
...bad motive or an evil purpose creates no cause of action founded upon the exercise of a legal right. "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." Boyson v. Thorn, 98 Cal. 578, 33 Pac. 492, 21 LRA 233; Cooley on Torts, pp. 1503, 1505. Finally, the... | |
 | George Gorham Groat - Courts - 1911 - 432 pages
...Justice Beatty, is found also in other cases. In a case decided by his own court it took the form, " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." In the English case it was stated (Allen v. Flood), "An act lawful in itself is not converted by a... | |
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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. 
