 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 846 pages
...can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction if he could shew, not only that the same loss might have... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bailments - 1840 - 686 pages
...be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1846 - 1088 pages
...be allowed to qualify or apportion his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss if his wrongful act had never been done. It admits of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have happened,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Business & Economics - 1851 - 836 pages
...be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Damages - 1852 - 722 pages
...wrongdoer can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong; as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done."* So in Massachusetts, it was held, in an action for trespass* for digging into a river bank near a dam,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Maritime law - 1853 - 584 pages
...be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It miijht admit of a different construction, if he could show, not only that tJie same loss might have... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1856 - 996 pages
...be allowed to qualify or apportion his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which...of a loss if his wrongful act had never been done. It admits of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have happened,... | |
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But we think the real answer to the objection is, that no wrongdoer can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful... 
