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Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

That principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public and against the public good.

See 142 Ind. 560, 51 Am. St. Rep. 193, 41 N. E. 1048.