| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1790 - 962 pages
...diachylon, yet he {hall have his action, for it is a perfonal injury. So a man fhall have an adtion againft another for riding over his ground, though it do him no damage ; for it is an invaflon of his property, and the other has no right to come there. And in thefe cafes the action is... | |
| John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 744 pages
...have an action. So if a man gives another a cuff on tho ear, though it cost him nothing, no not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his...of his property, and the other has no right to come there ; and in these cases the action is brought »i ct armis. But for invasion of another's franchise... | |
| William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...hindered of his right. If a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury. It is no objection that it will occasion multiplicity of actions ; for if men will multiply injuries,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 1084 pages
...have an action. So, if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his...of his property, and the other has no right to come there. And in these cases an action is brought vi et armis. But, for invasion of another's franchise,... | |
| William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1856 - 838 pages
...have an action. So if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his...of his property, and the other has no right to come there." 2 Lord Raym. 955. " Wherever," says Mr. Sergeant Williams, " any act injures another's right,... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 648 pages
...have an action. So, if a man givcsanother a cuff on the car, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his...of his property, and the other has no right to come there." For the error in giving the instruction stated, the judgment of the court below must be reversed... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 922 pages
...have an action. So if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury." Ashby v. White, 2 Ld. Raymond, 938 (Smith's LC, 425). The idea here is, as we see, that there is damage... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - Parties to actions - 1870 - 582 pages
...an action. So, if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, — no, not so much as a little diachylon, — yet he shall have...ground, though it do him no damage : for it is an (t) Bullen, Pleadings, 3rd ed., 566—574. every infringement invasion of his property, and the other... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1870 - 680 pages
...inapplicable. In Ashby agt. White, (reported in 1 Salk., 19 and 2 L. Raym., 955,) it is said by Lord HOLT : " A man shall have an action against another for riding...of his property, and the other has no right to come there. So if a man gives another a cuff on the ear though it cost him nothing, no, not so much as a... | |
| |