| Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 978 pages
...156), " We think the true rule of ğlaw is that the person who for his own purposes brings on his own land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and that if he does not do so, he is prima facie answerable for all the damage, which... | |
| Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...177, that defendants were liable for the damage sustained by plaintiff. Per Curiain : — " We think the true rule of law is that the person who, for his...mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and that if he does not he is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence... | |
| Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 744 pages
...which they 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,...mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and that if he does not do so, he is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence... | |
| Francis Hilliard - Damages - 1867 - 664 pages
...held in a late English case, that one who for his own purposes brings, collects, and keeps on his land anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, without proof of negligence, is primd facie liable for all damage naturally resulting from its escape.7... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 778 pages
...of the existence of which they were aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts went to. We think that the true rule of law is, that the person...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 for all the damage which is the... | |
| Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 984 pages
...tenancy between them. This appears more clearly in Mr. Justice Blackburn's judgment. He says : — " We think that the true rule of law is that the person...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in " at his peril ; and if he does not do so, he is primd facie answerable (1) 8 CB, NS, 568. 1870... | |
| Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Law - 1869 - 334 pages
...immaterial whether the escape is by negligence or not. It has been laid down by our learned judges as law, that the person who for his own purposes brings on...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 for the damage which is the natural... | |
| Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1869 - 796 pages
...person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there any thing l1kely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and that if he does not do so, he is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence... | |
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...in his judgment in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, where he states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words: — " We think that the true...likely to do mischief, if it escapes must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so is /iriiiia far.it answerable for all the damage which is... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1382 pages
...Associates, 106 Mass. 104, 198, 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 primd facie answerable for all the damage which is... | |
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