This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Agreements tending to official or personal corruption.................... 1726
Lobbying contracts................................................. 1727
Application of principle............................................. 1728
Contingent compensation............................................ 1729
Contracts to pay for procuring public contracts........................ 1729a
Agreements for appointment and compensation of officials............... 1730
Obtaining a pardon................................................. 1731
Elections.......................................................... 1732
Contracts for railroad locations or stations, or operations................ 1733
Contracts for location of public buildings and improvements............. 1734
Contracts with an interested official.................................. 1735
Bargains for offices or advantages in private corporations................ 1736
Contracts of fiduciaries tending to impair fidelity....................... 1737
Agreements, the performance of which involves a wrong to a third person... 1738
Agreements in fraud of creditors..................................... 1739
Quasi-contractual recovery.......................................... 1740
Contracts in regard to marriage...................................... 1741
Separation agreements.............................................. 1742
Agreements facilitating divorce....................................... 1743
Agreements to resume marital relations............ .................. 1744
Immoral agreements................................................ 1745
Contracts inimical to Christianity.................................... 1746
Any bargain, the tendency of which is to lead a public official, or one subject to a private duty to violate his duty for money or favor, is opposed to public policy. Bargains of this sort may concern legislators, public officers, officers or stockholders of corporations, trustees, agents, and servants, and even private individuals.
 
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