Reports of Select Cases Decided in the Courts of New York: Not Heretofore Reported, Or Reported Only Partially

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Page 112 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 341 - When perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual : "3.
Page 109 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Page 302 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without...
Page 112 - ... Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...
Page 104 - No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.
Page 112 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 343 - If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 292 - The killing of a human being, unless it is excusable or justifiable, is murder in the first degree, when committed : 1. From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2.
Page 185 - ... undoubted authority to control all persons and things within, their own territorial limits. When, therefore, both parties to a suit in a foreign country, are...

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