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Turpis causa. - Sale to a White Bonnet at a Roup. - Obligation not to oppose reduction of a Verdict of Fatuity. - Transacting a Crime. - Transacting Church Penance. - British Subject purchasing a Captured British Ship. - Combination of Offerers at a Sale. - Combination to raise the rate of Wages. - Combination against receiving Money of a particular Coinage. - Pactum contra utilitatem.
Aitchison v. -
Date: 28 February 1783 Case No. No 99.
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The Lords found it was unlawful for a person intending to bid at a roup, to give money to others that they might refrain from bidding. See Appendix.
