 We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land 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 prima facie answerable...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 2391901Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 978 pages
...(12) : " We think that the true rule of law is that the person, who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and if ho does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which... | |
 | Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...Curiain : — " We think the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do 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... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 744 pages
...shafts led to. " We think that the rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do 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... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 982 pages
...— " We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, " for his own purposes, brings on his land, 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, he is primd facie answerable (1) 8 CB, NS,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 778 pages
...went to. We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land 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 prima facie answerable for all the damage... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Law - 1869 - 334 pages
...has been laid down by our learned judges as law, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his land 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 prima facie answerable for the damage which... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...words: — " We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land 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 /iriiiia far.it answerable for all the damage... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 462 pages
...One who for his own purpose so manages his land as to collect there in abnormal quantities any thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, is, prima facie, answerable for the damage consequent upon its escape. The defendants' mines adjoined and communicated with the plaintiff... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 788 pages
...("):—"We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land 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 prima" facie answerable for all the damage... | |
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