| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1790 - 962 pages
...prapmt adb;Lerttt nifi tulcm aili.'ibueril, dc q:ta jtiperius diP.i:m cjl. 1* rom whence it appears, that if goods are let out for a reward, the hirer is bound 10 the u;moft diligence, (uch as the moft diii^ent fa'her of a family ufe? ; and if he ufes that, be... | |
| William Jones - Bailments - 1804 - 324 pages
...exjudge lays it down, " that, if goods are piained. ** let out for a reward, the hirer is bound f' to the UTMOST diligence, such as the " MOST diligent father of a family ifces [<§"]." It may seem bold to controvert so respectable an opinion : but, without insisting on... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 672 pages
...this doctrine, I prefume, is founded on that of lord HOLT in the cafe of COGOS and BERNARD, where the great judge lays it down, " that, if goods are let...reward^ the hirer is bound to the UTMOST " diligence, fuch as the MOST diligent father of " a family ufes*." It may feem bold to controvert fo refpectable... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 618 pages
...plaintiff muft be nonfuited. In Coggs i). Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 916, it is laid down by Lord HOLT, " that if goods are let out for a reward, the hirer is bound to the utmojl diligence, fuch as the ;/"-.•// diligent father of a family ufes ;" and in Bui. NP 72, it... | |
| Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers - Landlord and tenant - 1823 - 1084 pages
...although without any acknowledgment of the source1 from which it came: where that great judge laid it down, <: that if goods are let out for a reward,...such as the most diligent father of a family uses" in the preservation of his own property. It is observed, however, by Sir W. Jones, in his admirable... | |
| William Jones - Bailments - 1828 - 328 pages
...rebus propriis adhiberet, nisi talem adhibuerit, de qua gupcrius dictum est. From whence it appears, that if goods are let out for a reward, the hirer is bound to tho utmost diligence, such as the most diligent father of a family uses ; and if he uses that, he shall... | |
| Joseph Story - Bailments - 1832 - 460 pages
...Lord Holt held, that " At the common law, a hirer was bound to very great diligence." " If (said he) goods are let out for a reward, the hirer is bound...such as the most diligent father of a family uses." 3 And in Buller's Nisi Prius (72) it is laid down, that the hirer is to take all imaginable care. Sir... | |
| John Bayly Moore, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 790 pages
...rebus propriis adhiberet, nisi talem adhibuerit, de qua superius dictum est. From whence it appears, that, if goods are let out for a reward, the hirer...such as the most diligent father of a family uses: and, if he uses that, he shall be discharged. But every man, how diligent soever he bef being liable... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 588 pages
...as well as by Lord Holt, in the case of Coggs and Bernard, where the Chief Justice decided, that ' the hirer is bound to the utmost diligence, such as the most diligent father of a family uses.' Sir William Jones combats this principle in the following manner : ' I will engage to show, by tracing... | |
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