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... The Monthly Law Reporter - Page 3341857Full view - About this book
| 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
...caused by him : — • It is Enacted, I. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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
...section of that statute it is enacted, ' ' that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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
...Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: — 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...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
...for the injury so caused by him, enacts, " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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
...By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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
...By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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
...but by sect. 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the 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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