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Good faith

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Good faith consists in an honest intention to abstain from taking any unconscientious advantage of another, even through the forms or technicalities of law, together with an absence of all information or belief of facto which would render the transaction unconscientious.

Crouch v. First Nat. Bank, 156 111. 348, 40 N. E. 974; Docter V. Furch, 91 Wis. 464, 65 N. W. iel: Gress v. Evans, 1 Dak. 387, 46 N. 'W. 1132; Walraven v. Bank, 96 Tex. 331, 74 S. W. 530; Searl v. School Dist., 133 U. S. 553 , 10 Sun. Ct. 374, 33 L. Ed. 740.