| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 602 pages
...13-21-202: "When the death of a person is caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would,...have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable in an action for damages notwithstanding the death of the party injured." 2 The jury had been... | |
| Great Britain. Courts, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 1168 pages
...party has not always such self-possession as to attend to the warning and get out of the way. You 731 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...answerable in damages for the injury u caused by him : — • It is Enacted, I. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...killed by Accidents." By the first section of that statute it is enacted, ' ' that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages notwithstanding... | |
| 1848 - 566 pages
...The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: — 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...or the corporation which, would have been liable if de;ith had not ensued, shall be liable to an aciion for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person... | |
| Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him, enacts, " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Canada - Law - 1848 - 944 pages
...for death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and reco- any ^on ver damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have ™used by any been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages,... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...statute 9 and 10 Viet. c. 93. By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Business & Economics - 1851 - 836 pages
...statute 9 and 10 Viet. e. 93. By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...occasioned the death of another ; but by sect. 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
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