 | 1909 - 672 lehte
...be considered as not depending upon the motive with which it was done. It was said by Parke, B., " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent" * And in the great case of Allen v. Flood there are important dicta to the same effect. Lord Watson... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1888 - 1060 lehte
...legal substitute or equivalent for the thing amiss which is one of the necessary elements of a wrong. " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." ' Crimes and Torts Distinguished. It was observed in a previous chapter that the same act may constitute... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1888 - 864 lehte
...26 Law J. Exch. 82; •25 Law J. Exch. 127. 1 H. k N. 564. DISTRESS FOR RENT. '329 maliciously, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent, (e) Repeated Distresses for the Same Rent. — A landlord cannot lawfully distrain twice for the same... | |
 | Maurice Powell - 1891 - 936 lehte
...v. Ley land, 16 QB 669 ; even though the distress is alleged to have been made " maliciously," for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with bad intent. Stevenson v. Nnimkum, 13 CB 285 ; 22 LJ, CP 1 10, Ex. Ch. These cases overrule Taylor v.... | |
 | Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Edward Bell Green, Frank Dale, John Henry Burford, Robert Lee Williams, Matthew John Kane, Howard J. Parker, Charles Winfield Van Eaton - 1912 - 938 lehte
...all limes, has stood and now stands ready to give. In Qitinn v. Lcthani, supra, Lord McNaghten said: "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent. That is my opinion in the sum and substance of Allen i'. Flood, App. Cas. 1 (1898), and Lord Lindley in... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1895 - 628 lehte
...justice ; judges are not very fit for them, and juries are very unfit." It is a truism of the law that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent ; that what one has a right to do another cannot complain of. It is conceded that one may lawfully persuade... | |
 | John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Thomas Hollis Walker - 1896 - 824 lehte
...Wensleydale had already in (c) Per Bramwell, B., 3 B. & S. p. ^Chatemore v. Richards, 7 HLC, p. 84. Malicious "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be cess. actionable because it is done with a bad intent " (a). There is no such thing as an action for... | |
 | John Mews - 1898 - 1042 lehte
...has a right to be without a remedy. Whitchurch v. Hide, 2 Atk. 392. »• Won Injnria— Kalice.] — An act' which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is clone with a bad intent tUfrenmn v. Xewnhum. 13 CB 285 ; 22 LJ CP 110 — Ex. Ch. t>. P., Bradford... | |
 | John Mews - 1898 - 1112 lehte
...w"\\Q\as a rieht \.o ittiout а 67 TORT. 70 N Non Injuria— Malice.] — An act which «loes not amonnt to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent Stecenton v. Xewnham, 13 CB 2S5 ; 22 LJ CP 110— Ex. Oh. SP, Brudfurd Corptn-aПия v. Pichica, 64... | |
 | 1899 - 846 lehte
...would have no right to do it." Parke, B., in Stevenson v. Newnham (c), enunciates the like principle: " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." If there has been no violation. of a right, malice of itself gives no cause of action, although damage... | |
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It is a truism of the law that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent; that what one has a right to do another cannot complain of. 
