But the fact that both parties are of full age and competent to contract does not necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract... Transactions - Page 117by Maryland State Bar Association - 1911Full view - About this book
| Law - 1906 - 534 pages
...self-interest is often an unsafe guide and the legislature ma}' properly interpose its authority. * « » The fact that both parties are of full age and competent...to the contract shall be protected against himself. The state still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater... | |
| Law - 1921 - 500 pages
...fall age and competent to contract does not neces sarily deprive the state of the power to inter fere where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or...health demands that one party to the contract shall be pro tected against himself. 'The state still retains an interest in his welfare, however reck less... | |
| Law - 1906 - 530 pages
...considered a day's work does not, it is held, necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere when the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself. "The state," it is said, "still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The... | |
| James Arthur Estey - Efficiency, Industrial - 1928 - 400 pages
...pronounce to be detrimental to their health and strength." The legislature may properly interfere when "the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where...one party to the contract shall be protected against himself."1 REDUCTION OF WORKING HOURS IN GENERAL 2. Let us now examine the argument for a restriction... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1929 - 1574 pages
...of noxious gases, generated by the processes of refining or smelting." The court further said that "the fact that both parties are of full age and competent...equality, or where the public health demands that one partv to the contract shall be protected against himself. 'The State still retains an interest in his... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1933 - 1568 pages
...of noxious gases, generated by the processes of refining or smelting." The court further said that " the fact that both parties are of full age and competent...to the contract shall be protected against himself. 'The State still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1936 - 1858 pages
...those limiting the hours of labor for women and minors. In one of the cases Mr. Justice Brewer had said: "The fact that both parties are of full age...the contract shall be protected against himself." (Holden v. Hardy, 169 US 366.) In the case of Midler v. Oregon, 208 US 412, the Court said in regard... | |
| Employers' liability - 1912 - 1074 pages
...self-interest is often an unsafe guide, and the Legislature may properly interpose its authority. But the fact that both parties are of full age and competent...to the contract shall be protected against himself. 'The State still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater... | |
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