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14 Gray accident adjoining land adjoining owner Allen allowed animals Art Builders beautiful building by-laws carriage cattle cause CHAPTER city or town civilization coach common law constructed convenience county commissioners Cush defect DRINKING-TROUGHS drive enjoyment equestrian erected and maintained errand of mercy farm fence foot-paths foremost driver gives municipal guide-posts habit highway surveyor homesteads Horatio Seymour horse human improvement indictable offence indictment injury keep land-owner is entitled large number lawfully liable limits manner Mass meeting military highway Nature neglects or refuses negligence nuisance obstruct Oneida County ornamental trees pass passenger person pig-pens proprietors public highways public travel purpose railings reasonable recover damages remove riding road-bed roadside Roman Roman legions Roman roads rule of travelling selectmen or road shade trees side soil statute law streets suance suitable surface water teams thereby thereon tion town authorities town or city towns and cities wayside
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Page 66 - ... public, and anything which impeded that free passage without necessity was a nuisance; that if the nature of the defendant's business were such as to require the loading and unloading of many more of his wagons than could conveniently be contained within his own private premises, he must either enlarge his premises, or remove his business to some more convenient spot.
Page 51 - All persons, paralytic as well as others, have a right to walk on the road and are entitled to the exercise of reasonable care on the part of persons driving carriages along it.
Page 92 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 6 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Page 102 - They seem to have been built for the human race, as at once their schools and cathedrals ; full of treasures of illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple lessons to the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper.
Page 54 - On the other hand, where the accident arises from a hidden and internal defect, which a careful and thorough examination would not disclose, and which could not be guarded against by the exercise of a sound judgment and the most vigilant oversight, then the proprietor is not liable for the injury, but the misfortune must be borne by the sufferer, as one of that class of injuries for which the law can afford no redress in the form of a pecuniary recompense.
Page 15 - Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
Page 1 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 39 - ... a sum not exceeding fifty cents for each of its ratable polls...
Page 9 - It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.