6.3 Agreements Opposed to Public Policy

The classic catalogue (the head of illegality by policy rather than prohibition): Trading with the enemy (the wartime bar); Stifling prosecution — the agreements to compound a crime or suppress evidence (Criminal Law's compounding frame); Maintenance and champerty — the litigation-funding-and-trafficking-in-claims bar (the old strictness; the modern loosening with the funded-litigation era); Sale of public offices and honours (the corruption-of-public-duty bar); Marriage-brokerage agreements; Interference with justice — the witness-tampering, the jury-purchase; Interference with parental-and-marital duties (the family-status bargains); The unconscionable-and-oppressive terms (the unconscionability's public-policy face — the modern head).