Collins v. Pettitt

The Courts have no public policy to declare or enforce. This lies outside of their province. It is for the Legislature, ..the law making power, to define and declare the public policy and when this is clear, whether it may seem a hardship, or beneficial, it is equally the duty of the Courts to declare the law as written. If of doubtful meaning, it is the duty of the Courts to construe it in accord with the settled public policy as deduced from this and similar legislation, or to consider the evil to be remedied, and other like aids, in the endeavor to get at the true meaning of the Act.

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