 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
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 744 pages
...Chamber, and sustained in the House of Lords : "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 prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1889 - 1462 pages
...or liable to do mischief if it escape, viz. : One who, for his own purposes, brings upon his land, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escape, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so is prima fade answerable for all the... | |
 | Floyd Russell Mechem - Agency - 1889 - 1086 pages
...performance over to a contractor.* Of the same nature is the duty which the law imposes upon every person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands, and collects or keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, to keep it in at his peril; and if he... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 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 answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. . . . The person... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1890 - 694 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 - 1890 - 958 pages
...well-known case of PUtchtr v. Rylandt, LB 3 HL 330, is that the perHon who, for IIIH own purposes, bringt on his lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapen, niant keep it in at hisjjgril, and, if be does not do so, i» prima facie answerable for all... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - Damages - 1891 - 742 pages
...reversed, Blackburn, J., delivering the opinion. He said : " 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." In support of... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Electric engineering - 1891 - 576 pages
...Rylands, affirmed by the House of Lords in ipsissimis verbis: "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. He can excuse himself... | |
 | David Belden - California - 1891 - 488 pages
...a mine. The Court held : " That the true rule was that the person who for his own рчгрэззз brings on his lands and collects, and keeps there,...escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not is prium facie answerable for all the damages which are the natural consequences of its escape. He... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1891 - 416 pages
...in Fletcher v. Rt/lands, LR 1. Ex. 279, 280, 281, 282, — " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in a^his peril, and if he does not do so, is pr'ima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
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