| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 602 pages
...13-21-202: "When the death of a person is caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would,...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... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 848 pages
...Comp. Slat., p. 1907. It provides: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful aci^ neglect, or default, and the act, neglect or default...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...in respect 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,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...answerable in damages for the injury u caused by him : — • It is Enacted, I. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...in respect 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,... | |
| Michigan - Session laws - 1847 - 1212 pages
...enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Cwae of action defined. lives of the Stale of Michigan, Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...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... | |
| Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...killed by Accidents." By the first section of that statute it is enacted, ' ' that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...in respect 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... | |
| Herbert Broom - Parties to actions - 1847 - 232 pages
...occasioned the death of 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...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... | |
| New Jersey - Session laws - 1847 - 954 pages
...and thenegi.K* *eact, neglect, or default is such as would, if death- hud not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover...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... | |
| 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,... | |
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