 | George Howell - 1902 - 536 pages
...1837, and to remedy an evident defect in the Common Law. The preamble says : " Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his...act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrong-doer in such case should be... | |
 | Henry Best Hans Hamilton, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - 1902 - 696 pages
...Act, and M VlCt., C- WO. 27 fc 28 Viet., c. 95 (a) 9 & 10 Viet., c. 93. S. 1. Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his...act, neglect or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be... | |
 | Québec (Province). Superior Court - 1902 - 642 pages
...commence-t-il par déclarer (9-10 Vict., ch. 93, Impérial) : " Whereas no action at law is now maintain" able against a person who, by his wrongful act, neglect " or default, may have caused the death of another person, " and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrong" doer in such case should... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - 1903 - 1076 pages
...Ct. 105. Preamble to Lord Campbell's act (1846), 9 and 10 Viet. ch. 93, reads, " Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his...default may have caused the death of any person." Little Rock & FS Ry. Co. v. Barker, 33 Ark. 350, parent for minor. Davis v. St. Louis, IM & S. Ry.... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - 1903 - 720 pages
...recognized maxim of the common law in England, and subsequently in this country, that no action at law was maintainable against a person who by his wrongful...default may have caused the death of any person. This doctrine was first judicially declared in England by Lord Ellenborough, in 1808, in Baker vs. BoUon,... | |
 | Alfred Henry Ruegg - 1903 - 632 pages
...[26th August 1846.] When death WHEREAS no action at law is now maintainable against a Person wno ty his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrong-doer in such cdse should be... | |
 | George Albert Bonner, Henry Gatchell Farrant - 1904 - 374 pages
...compensating the families of persons killed by accidents," it is recited that, " Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his...act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, &c." The Act then goes on to say that where, if death had not ensued, the party injured... | |
 | Francis Reynolds Yonge Radcliffe, Sir John Charles Miles - 1904 - 648 pages
...maxim actio personalia moritur cum pemona, applies, but is perfectly general:— ' Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who, by his...act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such cases shall be... | |
 | Albert Martin Kales - 1911 - 892 pages
...maxim, "actio personalis moritur cum persona," applies, but is perfectly general : "Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who, by his...act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such cases shall be... | |
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Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages... 
