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... Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Page 3351896Full view - About this book
| Law - 1846 - 700 pages
...any person shall, by his wrongful act, neglect or default, have caused the death of another person, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action against such first-mentioned person in... | |
| Great Britain. Courts, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 1168 pages
...party has not always such self-possession as to attend to the warning and get out of the way. You 731 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...caused by him : — • It is Enacted, I. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Great Britain - Law - 1846 - 880 pages
...of a An Action to Person shall be caused by wrongful Act, >1eglcct, or Default, and be maintainable the Act, Neglect, or Default is such as would (if Death had not "fs^™^ ensued) have entitled the Party injured to maintain an Action and Dea^h" through recover Damages... | |
| Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...section of that statute it is enacted, ' ' that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages notwithstanding... | |
| Herbert Broom - Parties to actions - 1847 - 232 pages
...another, but by s. 1 of that act, it is enacted that "whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect,...injured to maintain an action, and recover *damages in L -J respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would aave been liable if death... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1847 - 638 pages
...default, and that the act, neglect or default is such 20 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 such Inspector shall report thereon accordingly to C ne of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,... | |
| Samuel Owen - Law - 1847 - 490 pages
...caused by him ;" it is 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 bad not ensued) have entitled the party in- ! jured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect... | |
| Sir William Hodges - Railroad law - 1847 - 1160 pages
...of the same, That whensothe death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, (•fault, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death n»t ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
| 1848 - 566 pages
...Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: — 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...or the corporation which, would have been liable if de;ith had not ensued, shall be liable to an aciion for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person... | |
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