| Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...j^R*11*^ principle from Indermaur v. Dames. There the rule laid down was that " the occupier should use reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger which he knows or ought to know." The stress of the proposition lies in the word " unusual " ; if the proposition were — omitting the... | |
| John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Thomas Hollis Walker - Torts - 1896 - 824 pages
...CP p. 288.) Willes, J., in discussing the duty owed towards licensees coming on business, said : " Where there is evidence of neglect, the question whether such reasonable care has been taken by natlre, lighting, guarding, or otherwise, must be determined by a jury as a matter of fact." And in... | |
| Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 822 pages
...said that it was settled law that a visitor of that class, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier...reasonable care has been taken, by notice, lighting, guarding, or otherwise, and whether there was contributory negligence in the person injured, must be... | |
| John Milton Gardner, Walter James Eagle - Employers' liability - 1899 - 910 pages
...a visitor, at least, we consider it settled law that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier...danger, which he knows, or ought to know; and that when there is evidence of neglect the question whether such reasonable care has been taken, and whether... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1901 - 716 pages
...cited in later cases, I.. 11. 1 CP 274, 35 LJCP and reprinted in Bigelow LC 184, 2 CP 311, 36 LJCP shall on his part use reasonable care to prevent damage...reasonable care has been taken, by notice, lighting, guarding, or otherwise, and whether there was contributory negligence in the sufferer, must be determined... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 812 pages
...QB 986, 992. As put by Willes, J., in Indermaur v. Dames (1866), LR 1 CP 274, 288: "The visitor ... is entitled to expect that the occupier shall on his...unusual danger, which he knows or ought to know." I think a correct exposition is given of the modern doctrine by Lord Stormonth Darling in Duncan v.... | |
| Canada. Department of Labour - Labor - 1923 - 1422 pages
...using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, was entitled to expect that the occupier should on his part use reasonable care to prevent damage...from unusual danger which he knows or ought to know. It was held that the defendant company's employee was guilty of an act nf neglicence when he threw... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 754 pages
...the purpose of his business is not an insurer that he may safely go there, but is liable only " to use reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger which he knows or ought to know." , It may be that the law should be different where the way to be used is in the water, because the... | |
| Labor - 1903 - 1080 pages
...such a visitor at least, we consider it settled law that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier...reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger which ho knows or ought to know; and that, when there is evidence of neglect, the question whether such reasonable... | |
| Francis Reynolds Yonge Radcliffe, Sir John Charles Miles - Torts - 1904 - 648 pages
...a visitor at least, we consider it settled law, that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier...reasonable care has been taken, by notice, lighting, guarding, or otherwise, and whether there was contributory negligence in the sufferer, must be deter-... | |
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