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" We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands 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... "
The Central Law Journal - Page 243
1920
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The Law Times, Volume 66

Law - 1879 - 494 pages
...the Court of Exchequer Chamber, "is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...it in at his peril ; and, if he does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse...
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A Treatise Upon the Law of Principal and Agent in Contract and Tort

William Evans - Agency (Law) - 1879 - 802 pages
...his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief, and it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of (i) Per Blackburn, J., in Mersey...
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The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland

Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - Canals - 1880 - 788 pages
...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 at his peril ; and if he does not do " ' so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is...
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A Summary of the Law of Torts Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract

Arthur Underhill - Torts - 1881 - 372 pages
...his land, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and if he does not do so is prima facie responsible for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." It therefore...
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A Treatise on the Law of Waters: Including Riparian Rights, and Public and ...

John Melville Gould - Riparian rights - 1883 - 972 pages
...Water Works, LR 10 Q. Board, 4 Ex. D. 5 ; 27 Am. L. Reg. B. 453. 348 ; Chalmers v. Dixon, 3 Sesslons lands and collects and keeps there anything likely...keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, \& prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can...
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The Honours Examination Digest: Comprising All the Questions in Convenancing ...

John Frederick Haynes, Thomas A. Nelham - Law examinations - 1883 - 474 pages
...the defendant was liable, on the ground that "a 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 at his peril; and if ho does not do so, is primd facie responsible for all the damage which is the...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 51

Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1134 pages
...(applicable to a great variety of cases) that "the person who, for his own purposes, brings upon his lauds, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do...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." Nor Is the rule...
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A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law ..., Volume 5

John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1046 pages
...as in the case of an adjoining mine owner. Ib. Л person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...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, however careful...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 110

Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1172 pages
...think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, ilirings on his own land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his own peril ; and if he does not do so, is pruna facie answerable for all the damage which is...
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The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General ..., Volume 46

Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 880 pages
...that the true rule of law is, that the person VOL. XL VI — 51 Burbank v. Bethel Steam Mill Company. who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anj thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do...
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