The English and Indian Law of Torts |
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absolutely privileged accident accord and satisfaction act complained actual agent alleged amount arising arrest assault authority Bing breach of contract brought carriage cause of action Chunder circumstances civil common law compensation consequence contractor contributory negligence Court criminal danger death deceased defamatory defendant defendant's duty easement employed employer employment entitled eventhough exercise fact false imprisonment felony fraud ground held liable horse husband imputation Indian infringement injunction injury L. J. Ex land legal damage libel Lord Lord Herschell loss maintain an action malicious prosecution natural necessary negligence nuisance officer omission ordinary owner party plaintiff possession prevent principle privilege probable cause proceedings prove purpose railway company reasonable and probable remedy respect responsible right of action slander slander of title Smith special damage statement Statute sued suit sustained tenant third persons tion tort trespass unlawful unless wife words workman wrong-doer wrongful act wrongfully
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Page 65 - 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 damages in respect thereof...
Page xcv - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 104 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform, where such injury resulted from his having so conformed ; or ' (4) By reason of the act or omission of any person in the service of the employer...
Page 63 - And be it enacted, that every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent, and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 104 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 421 - A party is not to cast himself upon an obstruction which has been made by the fault of another, and avail himself of it, if he do not himself use common and ordinary caution to be in the right.
Page 419 - All that is perfectly correct: for, although the ass may have been wrongfully there, still the defendant was bound to go along the road at such a pace as would be likely to prevent mischief. Were this not so, a man might justify the driving over goods left on a public highway, or even over a man lying asleep there, or the purposely running against a carriage going on the wrong side of the road.
Page 105 - In any case where the workman knew of the defect or negligence which caused his injury, and failed within a reasonable time to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer or some person superior to himself in the service of the employer, unless he was aware that the employer or such superior already knew of the said defect or negligence.
Page 104 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 75 - That an act done for another, by a person, not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well established rule of law.