Wrongful Restraint - Law Dictionary Search Results
Wrongful restraint
Matched in: Term Wrongful restraint
Wrongful confinement
Matched in: Term Wrongful confinement
Married women's property
and apparently for that purpose an instrument is to be deemed to be executed before 1936 if the restraint was imposed in pursuance of a pre-existing obligation, and the date of the exercise of a special power
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Fraud
be fradulent, as contrary to general policy, or to fixed legal principles; as marriage-brokerage bonds, and contracts in restraint of trade. Other transactions again, growing out of a special confidential or fiduciary relation between the parties, are … equally reprehensi-ble with positive fraud, and therefore equally prohibited. Thus, to prevent injustice and shut out inducement to wrong, certain transactions are held to be fradulent, as contrary to general policy, or to fixed legal principles; as
Illegal contract
such authority, in contravention of s. 193 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875; also contracts in unreasonable restraint of trade; general restraint of marriage; trading with the enemy; compounding felonies; maintenance or champerty, etc. A breach
Law Reform (UK)
this Part of this Act; or (b) affect any criminal proceedings against any person in respect of any wrongful act; or (c) render enforceable any agreement for indemnity which would not have been enforceable if this section … if she was a feme sole (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY). The Act also modifies the law relating to restraint upon anticipation (see that title), abolishes a husband's liability for his wife's torts and ante-nuptial obligations (see HUSBAND
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