| 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 - 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... | |
| Samuel Owen - Law - 1847 - 490 pages
...in damages for the injury so caused by him ;" it is therefore enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect...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
...extended by the statute 9 & 10 Viet. c. 93(/). Sect. 1 of this statute enacts, that, wheresoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to recover damages in respect... | |
| Canada - Law - 1848 - 944 pages
...enacted by the authority of the same, That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by ttc^ wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default, is such as would (if damages for death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and reco- any... | |
| 1848 - 566 pages
...hundred dollars. We do not know but this verdict was legal and right, but we have doubts. The law says, " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act," &c. Can an insane man commit a wrong/ill act in the sense that the law contemplates ? Besides, insane... | |
| Commerce - 1849 - 716 pages
...fares below three cents.* By an act passed in 1847, as amended at tliis session, it is enacted: — Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...fares below three cents.* By an act passed in 1847, as amended at this session, it is enacted: — Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in... | |
| Ohio - Session laws - 1851 - 196 pages
...neglect or default. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Damages reOhio, That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...or default; and the act, neglect or default is such rtn would (if death had not ensued,) have entitled the party Injured to maintain an action and recover... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 806 pages
...the opinion of Mr. Justice HOOKER iii this case that the language of the section in question that, "whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action," etc., is to be construed as excluding... | |
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