A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy, Probate, Admiralty, and Divorce: Together with a Selection from Those of the Court of Chancery and Irish Courts, from 1756 to 1883 Inclusive, Volume 5H. Sweet, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... alleged to have been committed in the house appeared sufficiently by the declaration to have been acts done in pursuance of the warrant , and in consequence of the charge made by the defendant , and that they were stated as mere matter ...
... alleged to have been committed in the house appeared sufficiently by the declaration to have been acts done in pursuance of the warrant , and in consequence of the charge made by the defendant , and that they were stated as mere matter ...
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... alleged to have been sustained in a collision upon the de- fendants ' railway . M. brought an action against the defendants , which was compromised by the defendants paying large sums for costs and damages . Subsequently the directors ...
... alleged to have been sustained in a collision upon the de- fendants ' railway . M. brought an action against the defendants , which was compromised by the defendants paying large sums for costs and damages . Subsequently the directors ...
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... alleged , in search of work . The defendant , the brother of the plaintiff's wife , at her request , and with the consent of the father , who was unable to support his daughter , applied to the magistrate's clerk , and by his advice a ...
... alleged , in search of work . The defendant , the brother of the plaintiff's wife , at her request , and with the consent of the father , who was unable to support his daughter , applied to the magistrate's clerk , and by his advice a ...
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... alleged that he had been unlawfully , maliciously and without reasonable cause detained and im- prisoned by the defendants . The plaintiff in his statutory notice to the defendant H. , who was a police constable , assigned the 13th of ...
... alleged that he had been unlawfully , maliciously and without reasonable cause detained and im- prisoned by the defendants . The plaintiff in his statutory notice to the defendant H. , who was a police constable , assigned the 13th of ...
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... alleged that the information charged C. with having feloniously stolen and ridden away with two geldings . Milton v . Elmore , 4 C. & P. 456 . so paid as part of his damages - Held ,. mand of his military secretary , who ordered it to ...
... alleged that the information charged C. with having feloniously stolen and ridden away with two geldings . Milton v . Elmore , 4 C. & P. 456 . so paid as part of his damages - Held ,. mand of his military secretary , who ordered it to ...
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Page 801 - 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.
Page 685 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 207 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive engine, or train upon a railway...
Page 783 - ... that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Page 335 - ... of the vestry or district board of the parish or district in which such...
Page 231 - ... handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour, whether under the age of twenty-one years or above that age, has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract be made before or after the passing of this Act, be express or implied, oral or in writing, and be a contract of service or a contract personally to execute any work or labour.
Page 729 - ... a man who orders a work to be executed, from which, in the natural course of things, injurious consequences to his neighbour must be expected to arise, unless means are adopted by which such consequences may be prevented, is bound to see to the doing of that which is necessary to prevent the mischief, and cannot relieve himself of his responsibility by employing...
Page 715 - The proposition which these recognised cases suggest, and which is, therefore, to be deduced from them, is that whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position with regard to another that everyone of ordinary sense who did think would at once recognise that if he did not use ordinary care and skill in his own conduct with regard to those circumstances he would cause danger of injury to the person or property of the other, a duty arises to use ordinary care and skill to avoid such...
Page 421 - ... could or might have held and enjoyed the same in case this Act had not been made...
Page 311 - Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill.