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Immoral contracts, contracts founded upon considerations contra bonos mores, are void. Ex turpi contractu non oritur actio. But where a contract founded upon an immoral consideration has been executed, neither law nor equity will interfere to set it aside if both parties have been equally in fault, for in pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis.Yet a contract under seal, made in consideration of past seduction or cohabitation, can be enforced; not because it is binding in honour and conscience, for such a reason is not sufficient, but because it is a specialty (see CONTRACT), and has not been made for an executory consideration of an illegal nature. A covenant to pay money in consideration of future cohabitation is void, though under seal, Ayerst v. Jenkins, (1873) LR 16 Eq 275. See ILLEGAL CONTR-ACT....
Immoral
Immoral, the word 'immoral' is a very comprehen-sive word. Ordinarily it takes in every aspect of personal conduct deviating from the standard norms of life. It may also be said that what is repugnant to good conscience is immoral. Its varying content depends upon time, place and the stage of civilization of a particular society, Gherulal Parakh v. Mahadeodas Maiya, AIR 1959 SC 781 (797): Supp 2 SCR. (Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 23)The consideration or object of an agreement is lawful unless the court regards it as immoral, or opposed to public policy....
Immoral
Not moral inconsistent with rectitude purity or good morals contrary to conscience or the divine law wicked unjust dishonest vicious licentious as an immoral man an immoral deed...
Immorality
The state or quality of being immoral vice...
Immorally
In an immoral manner wickedly...
Vice and Immorality, Proclamation against
Vice and Immorality, Proclamation against, made until its abrogation by Order in Council of June 26th, 1884, at the opening of Assizes and Quarter Sessions. First issued by William III. in 1797, and issued in a new form in 1860. See Law Times Newspaper for April 20, 1901....
Contracting out of a statute
Contracting out of a statute. In accordance with the maxim, Quilibet potest [or Cuilibet licet] renunciare juri pro se introducto, persons for whose benefit a statute has been passed may contract with others in such a manner as to deprive themselves of the benefit of the statute, as, for instance, the benefit of the Employers Liability Act, 1880; see Griffiths v. Earl of Dudley, (1882) 9 QBD 357.Certain Acts prohibit 'contracting out' or impose limitations. For example, by s. 1 (3) of the Workmens Compensation Act, 1925, contracting out of the Act is allowed upon the certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies that a proposed scheme of compensation is not less favourable to the workmen than the scheme of compensation provided by the Act. See also s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and s. 146 (12) of the (English) Law of Property Act,1925, which provides for relief against the forfeiture of a lease; and also ss. 95 and 96 as to mortgages which exclude contracting out, ...
Contraction
The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking the state of being contracted as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendon the contraction produced by cold...
Contractibility
Capability of being contracted quality of being contractible as the contractibility and dilatability of air...
Contracts concluded in advance
Contracts concluded in advance, Contracts which are concluded between a producers or an association of producers and a buyer to supply hops which have been produced in the community must be registered in the relevant producer member State. A separate register must be kept in each member State in respect of 'contracts concluded in advance, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 1072, p. 719....
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