It is seldom that the affections are likely to acquire an undue influence, but there is great danger of self-love degenerating into selfishness, which interferes with the duties we owe to others.
When either a desire or an affection has acquired an undue influence, so as to carry us forward in a manner disproportioned to its real and proper tendencies, it becomes a passion.
I know the Goodwins, too, and I know, besides, that they are incapable of reverting to either fraud or undue influence of any kind.
They are bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation.
In Ireland the landed interest also exercised an undue influence, and many cases of extreme hardship occurred.
This would totally exclude bribery and undue influence; for no man can bribe a state; and it would almost annihilate partial views in legislation.
A jury, whose legal qualifications are only property and ripe age, may more probably incur the imputation of weakness, partiality, or undue influence.
Said Captain Norton: "As regarded what had been said about undue influence [being exercised by the civil servants], his contention was that so long as the postal officials .
The election law of Canada, copied from that of England, forbade the use of undue influence in elections, and undue influence had been said to include use by ecclesiastics of their powers to excite superstitious fears or pious hopes.
Votes had been obtained by undue influence on the part of masters and landlords, and there had been treating of the most pernicious and corrupt description.
Bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation by agents, were alleged.
But, certain we are, that he could not mean to stigmatize them as actuated by partiality, undue influence, or sinister motives of any kind.
I state the proposition, therefore, as one covering all kinds of undue influence.
Intimidation is one kind of undue influence; expectation of benefit is another; fear of social ostracism is another: will you go into them?
A strong case must be made to set aside a will on the ground of undue influence.
The transaction was set aside, the Court saying: “Owing to the relation which the parties sustained towards each other, the deed was presumptively the result of undue influence, and therefore prima facie void for that reason.
Madame de Listomere's legacy to Birotteau was contested by the Baron de Listomere under a pretence of undue influence!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undue influence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
