Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (if death had not ensued,) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages, in respect thereof,... Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the District of ... - Page 335by District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1888Full view - About this book
| Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening - Forms (Law) - 1876 - 992 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in respect thereof; then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| John Indermaur - Common law - 1876 - 530 pages
...10 Viet. c. 93. such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Colorado - Law - 1877 - 1182 pages
...as would (if death had «™"ofu!ino!hi;r. not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action... | |
| New Brunswick, Charles Nelson Skinner, Frederic E. Barker, Edward L. Wetmore - Law - 1877 - 1210 pages
...neglect or default is such as would(if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person or body corporate who would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an... | |
| Ohio - Session laws - 1878 - 1364 pages
...neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof; then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action... | |
| Sir Arthur Underhill - Torts - 1878 - 370 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 886 pages
...section of our statute is iotidem verUs with the corresponding section of the English statute : " § 7. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...corporation which, would have been liable, if death hftd not ensued, shall bo liable to an action for damages, notwithstand:ng the death of the person... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 936 pages
...are embodied in the Code of 1873, p. 990, ch. 145, §§ 7, 8, 9 and 10, which are as follows: " 7. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued, 1878. shall be liable to an action... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1640 pages
...neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the corporation which, or the person who, would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable... | |
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