Title & Trust Co. of Florida v. Parker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where a “contract contains a clause that is illegal, a court ought not to enforce the illegal term, as a contract cannot give validity to an otherwise illegal act”
• court will give effect to valid contract terms and ignore invalid terms in order to carry out contract’s essential purpose
• court will give effect to valid contract terms and ignore invalid terms in order to carry out contract's essential purpose
• court will give effect to valid contract terms and ignore invalid terms in order to carry out contract's essential purpose
• court will not enforce illegal clause of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).