Legal Definition and Related Resources of Illegal Contract

An agreement to do any act forbidden by law; an agreement that has an unlawful purpose, e.g., a contract to commit a crime or tort, an agreement that amounts to an unlawful restraint of trade ; an agreement to distribute pornographic material . An illegal contract confers no rights on the parties and no action can be founded on same. See Johnson v Van Wyck, 4 App. D.C. 4.

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Illegal contract in Law Enforcement

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• illegal contract in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• illegal contract in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis