Unblinkering the Unruly Horse: Public Policy in the Law of Contract
Unblinkering the Unruly Horse: Public Policy in the Law of Contract
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不眨眼的野马：合同法中的公共政策
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10.1017/s0008197300008722
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1972
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J. Shand
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J. Shand
公共政策这匹屡遭鞭挞的桀骜不驯的马仍然逍遥法外。因此，本文的目的是审查公共政策的性质、理由和运作，并考虑这是否是一个改革的成熟法律领域。在现有篇幅内，试图从广泛的角度进行这方面的研究显然是不切实际的，因此，这项研究将主要限于粗略和表面上显而易见的情况，即合同受到犯罪行为的污染，或寻求合同补救的一方依赖自己的犯罪行为。它将主要涉及诸如“任何人不得从自己的错误中获利”或“出于正当理由不得提起诉讼”等原则声明。这立即给普通律师带来了一个问题，因为这种一般性的陈述并不容易被认为是工作法，他希望将它们简化为一套更精确的规则。然而，这种尝试将把我们带入一场重大的审慎辩论的中心。
That much-flogged unruly horse, public policy, is still at large. It is therefore the purpose of this article to examine the nature, justification and operation of public policy and to consider whether this is an area of law ripe for reform. It clearly would be unrealistic to attempt to do this on a broad front in the space available, and so this survey will be limited mainly to the crude and superficially obvious case where a contract is tainted with criminality or where the party seeking a contractual remedy relies on his own criminal act. It will primarily be concerned with such statements of principle as “no man shall be permitted to profit from his own wrong” or “ex turpi causa non oritur actio.” This immediately raises a problem for the common lawyer, for such general statements are not readily recognisable as working law, and he will wish to reduce them to a more precise set of rules. Such an attempt will lead us, however, into the centre of a major jurisprudential debate.