Actionable negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards a person to whom the defendant owes the duty of observing ordinary care and skill, by which neglect the plaintiff, without contributory negligence on his part,... The Northeastern Reporter - Page 4531887Full view - About this book
| Law - 1888 - 564 pages
...Actionable negligence is sometimes defined to be " the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill toward a person to whom the defendant owes the duty of observing...actionable negligence exists only where the one whose act canses the injury owes to the injured person a duty, created either by contract or operation of law,... | |
| Law - 1884 - 206 pages
...unusually good, that a somewhat lengthy extract must be'given:—"Actionable negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards...contributory negligence on his part, has suffered injury to his person or property. The question in this case is whether the defendant owed such a duty... | |
| Law - 1884 - 214 pages
...unusually good, that a somewhat lengthy extract must be given : — " Actionable negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards...contributory negligence on his part, has suffered injury to his person or property. The question in this case is whether the defendant owed such a duty... | |
| John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 472 pages
...and the Master of the Rolls in his judgment stated as follows : "Actionable negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards...contributory negligence on his part, has suffered injury to his person or property "Whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position... | |
| Horace Smith - Employers' liability - 1884 - 386 pages
...to use ordinary care in respect of the matter called in question. Actionable negligence consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards a person to whem the defendant owes the If a person contracts with another to use ordinary care or skill towards... | |
| Sydney Hastings - Torts - 1885 - 532 pages
...of that obligation to the plaintiff's injury " («). The negligence which is actionable consists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care or skill towards a person to whom the defendant owes a duty of observing ordinary care and skill, by which neglect the plaintiff, without contributory negligence... | |
| Thomas Erskine Holland - Jurisprudence - 1886 - 402 pages
...that it may be disregarded. The death CHAP. vm. sists in the neglect of the use of ordinary care and skill towards a person to whom the defendant owes...ordinary care and skill, by which neglect the plaintiff has suffered injury to his person or property1.' The care and skill which people are required to exhibit... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1432 pages
...REQUESTS. 1. An instruction defining negligence as the neglect to use ordinary care or skill toward a person to whom the defendant owes the duty of observing ordinary care and skill, by which the plaintiff, "without negligence on his part proximately contributing to produce the accident," has... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1432 pages
...the neglocr of the use of ordinary care or skill towards u person to whom the defendant owes t lie duty of observing ordinary, care and skill, by which neglect the plaintiff (without negligence on his part proximately contributing tu» produce the accident) has suffered Injury to his... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1200 pages
...consists In the neglect of the use of ordinary care and skill towards a person to whom the défendant owes the duty of observing ordinary care and skill, by which neglect plaintiff has suffered Injury to his person." And also : "Contributory negligence is deflned as such... | |
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