policy of the law

It's against the policy of the law to raise those activities to the dignity of legitimate business enterprises.

'The policy of the law in this regard could well derive from its concern to hold a fair balance between victim and accused.

He has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the ideas and policies of the Law and Justice Party.

The standard choice of law rules for adjudicating on issues relating to marriage represent a balance between the various public policies of the laws involved:

It's against the policy of the law for a person to inherit property from one he or she has murdered regardless of any will or other instrument."

Lord Devlin in Kum v Wah Tat Bank Ltd summed up the policy of the law well.

Speaking for the firm, its managing partner, Eric W. Shaw, said today, "It is the policy of the law firm not to comment on the matter of the clients."

It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question, even though the decision might be wrong.

Furthermore, it was stated that the policy of the law should be to discourage association with criminals, and should thus be wary to excuse the criminal conduct of those who do so.

It was an eminently unsatisfactory way of arriving at the merits of a claim, and it is therefore not surprising to find that the policy of the law was in favour of its restriction rather than of its extension.

But footnotes did not begin creeping into and crawling under opinions in great numbers until law clerks, most of them steeped in the compulsive padding and attribution policies of the law reviews they edited, arrived in Washington in the 1960's.

Finally, while we certainly agree that the policy of the law in regard to the formalities for the creation and transmission of interests in land should be upheld, we have to acknowledge that that policy has been substantially modified by the developments to which we have referred.

In the Esso case Lord Reid said "as the whole doctrine of restraint of trade is based on public policy its application ought to depend less on legal niceties or theoretical possibilities than on the practical effect of a restraint in hampering that freedom which it is the policy of the law to protect".