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| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1230 pages
...Sec. 1. That, whenever the death of a person shall be (anted by wrongful act, neglect, or Bee 13 OTTO. default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would, if death haa not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect... | |
| H. Lauterpacht, E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1961 - 1068 pages
...notwithstanding." Mar. 30, 1920, c. in, § 4, 41 Stat. 537. ' "§ 761. Right of action; where and by whom brought " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia,... | |
| Law - 1847 - 616 pages
...Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had uot ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1544 pages
...Lord Campbell's Act, and which provides that an action will lie whenever death shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the injured person to recover, etc., and further provides that the action shall... | |
| David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 726 pages
...that rule. * * * The condition upon which this statutory liability depends is declared to be ' that the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to mainOpinion. tain an action and recover damages', etc. *... | |
| Railroad law - 1916 - 480 pages
...case is, indeed, within the express words of the statute — the death of Trawford having been ' ' caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, ' ' and the act, neglect or default being such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action... | |
| United States. Internal Revenue Service - Internal revenue - 1975 - 804 pages
...Statutes relating to death by wrongful act provide: Sec. 12-611. Liability When death of a person is Internal Revenue Service( _specifically exempted...disclosure by statute; (4) trade secrets and commerci ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
| E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1969 - 184 pages
...Chapter 21, Title 46 USC, entitled Death on the High Seas by Wrongful Act, provides in pertinent part: ' Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, .... the personal representative... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1969 - 1082 pages
...erected primarily as navigational aids, and the 4 41 Stat. 537, 46 USC §§ 761-768. 46 USC § 761 reads: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia,... | |
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