 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
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1236 pages
...brought This act was as follows: "Section 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by (a) wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect...every such case, the person who, or the corporation or company whicü would have been liable if death had not eusued, shall be liable for an action for... | |
 | Thomas Kennedy Ramsay - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 172 pages
...Vic. c. 6 ; in the preamble that act states " that whenever 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... | |
 | Barbados - Session laws - 1884 - 270 pages
...by the authority of the same as follows ; I. Whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by a 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 reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1182 pages
..."Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would,...every such case, the person who, or the corporation whizh, would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1884 - 520 pages
...Keddie. extended (Laws 1849, ch. 256; Laws 1870, cb. 78; Code Qn. Pro. § 1902). By the act of 1847 the person who or the corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued, is made liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1166 pages
...is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages In respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person wrho, or the corporation which, would have been liable If death had not ensued, shall be liable... | |
 | Nebraska, Guy Ashton Brown - Law - 1885 - 944 pages
...and judgment into execution. [Id. § 7.] CHAPTER 21.— DAMAGES.* SECTION 1. [Caused by death.]— have power to appoint a secretary and any other officer...may deem reasonable ; they may ordain and establish company, or corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1028 pages
..."Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would,...corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall he liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured."... | |
 | James Paterson - Master and servant - 1885 - 166 pages
...assembled, and by the authority of the same, 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... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - Employers' liability - 1885 - 610 pages
...after wrongful act. EFFECT OF DEATH UPON RIGHTS OF ACTION. the death of a person (y) is "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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