Whenever 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 to recover damages in respect thereof... The Federal Reporter - Page 4021903Full view - About this book
| India, Whitley Stokes - Inheritance and succession - 1865 - 316 pages
...case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him ; It is enacted as follows : — 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and . person for loss occasion- would (if death had not ensued) have ed to it by his death by entitled... | |
| West Virginia - Legislation - 1866 - 910 pages
...or default of another. Passed November 9, 186.1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful ^^."nJlTy1 «ct, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would bo recovered.... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1868 - 602 pages
...damages for the injuries so caused by him ; it was enacted that whensoever the death of a person should be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default wassaehi! would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and... | |
| New York (State) - Law - 1869 - 840 pages
...1847. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : g 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused...wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or ntaincd jgf^]^ js sucjj ^ would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 720 pages
...Pleading, p. 25n. (») Ily the stat. 9 A 10 Viet. c. 93, t. 1, it is enacted, "That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and tb« act, neglect, or default is u< li as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 880 pages
...for the death of a passenger killed by its negligence. A statute of Illinois enacts: "SECT. 1. 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 Statement of the case. the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages... | |
| Thomas William Saunders - Liability - 1871 - 338 pages
...be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him, enacts— 1. " That whensoever the death of a person shall be " caused by wrongful act, neglect...neglect or default is such as would (if death had " not ensued) have entitled the party injured to main" tain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
| John Williams, Sir Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 756 pages
...effected by stat. 9 & 10 Viet. c. 93, s. 1, by which it is enacted (s. 1) that " whensoever *' the death of a person shall be " caused by wrongful act, neglect,..." or default is such as would (if " death had not ensued) have en" titled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
| California - Civil procedure - 1872 - 774 pages
...under all the circumstances of the case, may to them seem just. t&& , 3) G ' k Stat. 1862, 447-8, read as follows: " Section 1. Whenever the death of a person...neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default, ia such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled tho party injured to maintain an action and... | |
| Wyoming - Law - 1872 - 162 pages
...of Representatives of the, Territory of Wyoming : SECTION 1. Whenever the death of a person shall bd caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the. act, neglect or default ic such as would (if death had not ensued) Representa* . ' tivi-s to have have entitled the party injured... | |
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