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 damages in respect thereof... Negligence in Law: General relations - Page 203by Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1779 pagesFull 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,...recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued,... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 848 pages
...Comp. Slat., p. 1907. It provides: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful aci^ neglect, or default, and the act, neglect or default...recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued,... | |
| 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...recover damages in respect 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 638 pages
...injury u 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,...recover damages in respect 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... | |
| Law - 1847 - 578 pages
...first 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,...recover damages in respect 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... | |
| Michigan - Session laws - 1847 - 1212 pages
...Cwae of action defined. lives of the Stale of Michigan, Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act,...recover damages, in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation -which would have been liable, if death had not ensued,... | |
| Herbert Broom - Parties to actions - 1847 - 232 pages
...another, but by s. 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,...injured to maintain an action, and recover *damages in L -J respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would aave been liable if death... | |
| New Jersey - Session laws - 1847 - 954 pages
...and thenegi.K* *eact, neglect, or default is such as would, if death- hud not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1847 - 638 pages
...default, and that the act, neglect or default is such 20 as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case such Inspector shall report thereon accordingly to C ne of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries... | |
| Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...damages 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,...recover damages in respect 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... | |
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