A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of ContractButterworths, 1889 - 328页 |
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act or omission action for damages action of deceit actual damage adjoining ancient lights arising arrest assault authority breach carriage cattle cause of action circumstances committed common law consequence constable contract contributory negligence court dangerous daughter deceased defamatory defendant defendant's Delamirie duty entitled evidence fact false imprisonment felony fraud fraudulent grant held horse induced infringement injunction injury interfere judge jury justice Lancaster Canal land landlord liable libel Lord Lord Cairns loss maintain an action malicious malicious prosecution master ment mitigation of damages N. E. R. Co natural negligence neighbour nuisance obstruction omnibus ordinary owner parent person plaintiff premises primâ facie privileged probable cause prosecution railway company reasonable ground recover remedy result right of action rized rule seduced servant slander Smith statement statute sufficient tenant thereby third party tion tort trade trespass unauthorized act unless verdict Vict wrongful act
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第184页 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
第20页 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
第13页 - Prentice's Proceedings in an Action in the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer Divisions of the High Court of Justice, (including the Rules, April, 1880).
第182页 - The judge has to say whether any facts have been established by evidence from which negligence may be reasonably inferred : the jurors have to say whether from those facts, when submitted to them, negligence ought to be inferred.
第184页 - ... the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
第127页 - Sessions assembled for administrative or deliberative purposes, and the publication at the request of any Government office or department officer of State, commissioner of police, or chief constable, of any notice or report issued by them for the information of the public...
第183页 - ... would be a serious inroad on the province of the jury, if, in a case where there are facts from which negligence may reasonably be inferred, the judge were to withdraw the case from the jury upon the ground that, in his opinion, negligence ought not to be inferred ; and it would, on the other hand, place in the hands of the jurors a power which might be exercised in the most arbitrary manner, if they were at liberty to hold that negligence might be inferred from any state of facts whatever.
第29页 - AN EXAMINATION OF THE RULES OF LAW respecting the Admission of EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE in Aid of the INTERPRETATION OF WILLS.
第23页 - ... that he knows, or has reasonable means of knowing, that consequences not usually resulting from the act are, by reason of some existing cause, likely to intervene so as to occasion damage to a third person. Where there is no reason to expect it, and no knowledge in the person doing the wrongful act that such a state of things exists as to render the damage probable, if injury does result to a third person it is generally considered that the wrongful act is not the proximate cause of the injury...
第169页 - ... there is no legal obligation on the vendor to inform the purchaser that he is under a mistake, not induced by the act of the vendor.