Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover... A Treatise Upon the Law Applicable to Negligence - Page 227by Thomas William Saunders - 1871 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 602 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable in an action... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 848 pages
...neglect or default is such as would if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action... | |
| Law - 1860 - 484 pages
...recover damages in respect thereof, then the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued is liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the...death of the person injured, and although the death has been caused under circumstances which amount to a felony. The action must be brought within one... | |
| Law - 1846 - 700 pages
...action against such first-mentioned person in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person so causing such death shall be liable to an action for damages resulting therefrom, notwithstanding... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,...under such circumstances as amount in law to felony. u. That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent, and child of the person... | |
| Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,...have been caused under such circumstances as amount iu law to felony." By the second section it is enacted, " that every such action shall be for the benefit... | |
| Samuel Owen - Law - 1847 - 490 pages
...entitled the party in- ! jured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in i every such case, the person who would have been liable...have been caused under such circumstances as amount hi law to felony." In the present case, if the plaintiff is right, the act which caused tbe death of... | |
| Sir William Hodges - Railroad law - 1847 - 1160 pages
...would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to recover damages in respect thereof, in every such case the person who would have been...although the death shall have been caused under such (d) Janets. Boyce, 1 Stark. R. 493. and it became their duty to use due (*) Carpue v. The London and... | |
| New York (State) - Law - 1847 - 470 pages
...respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to...notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and althoiigh the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony. ยง... | |
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