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
| Railroad law - 1916 - 478 pages
...action must be founded upon and within the following terms of the Act: — "That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by the 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... | |
| John Chalice Hall - Domestic relations - 1966 - 548 pages
...remedy in tort.] FATAL ACCIDENTS ACT, 1846 . . . [WJhensoever 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... | |
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 540 pages
...corporation, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if the death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover...then, and in every such case, the person who, or the company or corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1975 - 1308 pages
...actionable cause of the decedent at his death ; 7 if the deceased had reduced his claim to judgment 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... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 570 pages
...person." Swan's Rev. Stat. 707, 708. *"SEC. 1 Whenever the death of a person shall be caused [339 by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect,...corporation which would have been liable, if death hud not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1180 pages
...subject is found in RS 1916, c. 92, § 9, as follows : "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect...case, the person who, or the corporation which, would hnve been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1328 pages
...said ship or vessel, or in personam against the owners thereof or those having control of her, and to recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who, or corporation or ship or vessel which, would have been liable, If death had not ensued, shall be liable... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1036 pages
...ship, vessel or boat, or in personam against the owners thereof, or those having control of her) and to recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person or persons who, or the corporation (or the ship, vessel or boat), which would have been liable... | |
| Law - 1872 - 974 pages
...(A.)— By9&10 Vic., c. 93, § 1, 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... | |
| Thomas D. Schneid - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 512 pages
...notwithstanding death. 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. non- employee, the... | |
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