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1 Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence: A Presentation of the Law of Construction for Engineers, Architects, Contractors, Builders, Public Officers, and Attorneys at Law 1898

handle is hein.beal/enarchplac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL
JURISPRUDENCE.
A PRESENTATION OF THE
LAW OF CONSTRUCTION
FOR
ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS,
P UBLIC OFFICERS, AND ATTORNEYS AT LA W.
BY
JOHN CASSAN WAIT, M.C.E., LL.B.,
(M.C.E. CORNELL; LL.B. HARVARD,)
Attorney and Counselor at Law and Consulting Engineer;
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers;
Sometime Assistant Professor of Engineering,
Harvard University.
All laws as well as all contracts may be controlled in their operation and effect by gen-
eral, fundamental maxims of the common law. 'No one shall be permitted to profit by his
own fraud, to take advantage of his own wrong, to found any claim upon his own iniquity, or
to aquire property by his own crime.' -Justice EARL, in Riggs a. Palmer, 115 N.Y. Reports 506;
accord, Angle v. Chicago, St. P., M. & 0. Ry. Co., 151 U. S. Reports 1, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 240.
FIRST EDITION.
FIRST THOUSAND.
NEW YORK:
JOHN WILEY & SONS.
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED.
1898.

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