 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 2431920Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1172 pages
...stated by Mr. Justice Blackburn in Fletcher v. Uylands, l Excü. 265: "We think the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and «•oileets and keeps there anything likely to do mischief If it escapes, must keep it at his peril,... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 1146 pages
...based solely upon the broad principle announced in the case of Fletcher v. Rylands, l LR Exch. 263, "that the person who for his own purposes brings on...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." The complaint... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - Torts - 1885 - 448 pages
...the Court below, and his argument was approved by Lord Cairns. We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on...it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is pi-imd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - Employers' liability - 1885 - 610 pages
...delivered by Blackburn, J., in these words : — " The person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do BO, is priinu facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape But... | |
 | Sydney Hastings - Torts - 1885 - 532 pages
...his land, and ar,smg from xx inefficient collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischtef tf it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, is primd facic answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape, however careful... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1885 - 890 pages
...person who for liis nwn purposes brings on his hinds and collects and keep? there anything likely to di) mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he docs not do so, he is firima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural conseqntm-e of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1885 - 902 pages
...approbation. Thus it was held in Shipley v. The Fifty Associates, 106 Mass. 198, that " the person who for hi* own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, he is prima fade answerable... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1886 - 562 pages
...defect which ordinary prudence and skill could not detect ' We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on...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. He can excuse himself... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...the plaintiff. In the court of exchequer, Blackburn, J., says: "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings...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." LR l Exch. 265.... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 640 pages
...that "the person, who for his own purposes brings on his hands and collects and keeps there any thing likely to do mischief, if it escapes, must keep it...at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facia answerable for all damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." Fletcher \. Ryland.... | |
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