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 | 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,...have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable in an action for damages notwithstanding the death of the party injured." 2 The jury had been... | |
 | 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...damages notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...the injury u 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...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... | |
 | Michigan - Session laws - 1847 - 1212 pages
...Representa- Cwae of action defined. lives of the Stale of Michigan, Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the...damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.... | |
 | 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...for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injure:l, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to... | |
 | Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...the first 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...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... | |
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