 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1883 - 468 pages
...last Article. Illustration. (1.) A sees B drowning and is able to save him by holding out hiahand. A abstains from doing so in order that B may be drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence. ARTICLE 213. DUTY TO PROVIDE NECESSARIES OF LIFE. 2 Every person under a legal duty, whether by contract... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1887 - 494 pages
...than those referred to in the last Article. Illustration. (1.) A sees B drowning and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing...drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence. ARTICLE 213. DUTY TO PROVIDE NECESSARIES OF LIFE. 2 Every person under a legal duty, whether by contract... | |
 | George Wheelock Burbidge - 1890 - 666 pages
...than those referred to in the last Article. Illustration. (1.) A sees B drowning and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing...may be drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offenco. 4 ARTICLE 269. DUTY TO PROVIDE NECESSARIES OF LIFE. 5 Every person under a legal duty, whether... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1894 - 548 pages
...than those referred to in the last Article. Illustration, (1.) A sees B drowning and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing so in order that B may drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence. ARTICLE 234. DUTY TO PROVIDE NECESSARIES OF... | |
 | James Kirby - 1897 - 452 pages
...James's Digest in so trenchant a form as to seem questionable. " A. sees B. drowning, and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A. abstains from doing...; and B. is drowned. A. has committed no offence." The requirement that death must ensuo in a your and a day to constitute murder is abolished, and also... | |
 | 1909 - 688 pages
...only that he shall not be positively bad. This is perfectly expressed by Sir James Stephen: "A sees В drowning and is able to help him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing so in order that В may be drowned, and В is drowned. A has committed no offense." That is, all the law requires of... | |
 | 1916 - 406 pages
...themselves every morning. So their beards began to grow, and this broke a long established custom. On d1e return of the army to England the fashion of beards...in order that B may be drowned, and B is drowned. .-/ has committed no offence. It appears, from a footnote, that this case has been discussed in a striking... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1926 - 746 pages
...death or bodily injury, even intentionally by any omission. A sees B drowning, and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing...drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence.' 'The community at large,' writes Professor Courtney Kenny, 'are seldom under any legal duties but negative... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1926 - 740 pages
...any omission. A sees B drowning, and is able to save him by holding out his hand. A abstains ' rrom doing so in order that B may be drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence.' "The community at large,' writes Professor Courtney Kenny, 'are seldom under any legal duties but negative... | |
 | 1907 - 590 pages
...emphatic example is in the "Digest of Criminal Law," by Justice Sir James Stephen, 1887, p. 154. Eeg. v. Smith, 2 C. and P., 449 : A sees B drowning and...in order that B may be drowned, and B is drowned. A haa committed no offence. It appears, from a footnote, that this case has been discussed in a striking... | |
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A. sees B drowning and is able to help him by holding out his hand. A abstains from doing so in order that B may be drowned, and B is drowned. A has committed no offence. 
