| Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 978 pages
...(Lord Cairns) when the case came before the House of Lords (12) : " We think that the true rule of law is that 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... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 804 pages
...whole 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... | |
| Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...were liable for the damage sustained by plaintiff. Per Curiain : — " We think the true rule of law is that 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... | |
| Law - 1867 - 378 pages
...Rep. 1 С. Р. Б59. 2. One who for his own purposes brings, collects, and keeps on his land any thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and is prima facie answerable for all damage which is the natural result of its escape, without proof of... | |
| Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 744 pages
...were aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts led to. " We think that the rule of law is, that 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... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 778 pages
...aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts went to. We think that the true rule of law is, that 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 in at... | |
| Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 982 pages
...more clearly in Mr. Justice Blackburn's judgment. He says : — " We think that the true rule of law is that 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 in... | |
| Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Law - 1869 - 334 pages
...laid down by our learned judges as law, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. The person whose... | |
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so is /iriiiia far.it answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can... | |
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words: — "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land aud collects and keeps there anything likely to do niiichief, if it escapes must keep it in at... | |
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