| Law - 1869 - 492 pages
...cause of action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely...purpose for which it might, in the ordinary course of the enjoyment of land, be used ; and if in what I may term the natural user of that land there had... | |
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...cause of action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely...close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawf uly have used that close for any purpose for which it might, in the ordinary course of the enjoyment... | |
| Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...Chancellor (Lord Cairns), and Lord Cranworth. The'Lord Chancellor says : " The principles on which this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners and occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
| Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...the House of Lords, the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber was affirmed. The Lord Chancellor said : " The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close in which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close for any purpose for which... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 638 pages
...in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor says, page 338 : — " My Lords, the principles on which this case must be " determined appear to me to be extremely simple. The de" fendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the " close on which the reservoir was constructed,... | |
| Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...damages from B. in respect of this injury.1 1 " The principles," said Lord Chancellor Cairns, " on which this case must be determined, appear to me to be extremely...purpose for which it might, in the ordinary course uf the enjoyment of land, be used ; and if, in what 1 may term the natural user of that land, there... | |
| William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 432 pages
...Lord Cranworth. The Lord ZEMINDAR o» CABVATRNACnancellor says:— GABUM. " The principles on which this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely...simple. The Defendants, treating them as the owners and occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
| Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...judgment Lord Cairns LC stated the legal principles governing the case as follows : "The defendants might lawfully have used that close for any purpose for which it might in the ordinary (1) 1868 LR, 3 H. L,. 330. course of the enjoyment of land be used: and if in what I may term the natural... | |
| Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 902 pages
...have been *if the hollow had been watertight. Lord [311 Cairns says in Fletcher v. Ity lands ('), " The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers...purpose for which it might in the ordinary course of the enjoyment of the land be used ; and if in what I term the natural user of that land there had been... | |
| The Court of Session, Court Of Judiciary And Houde of Lords - 1877 - 1418 pages
...Wilsons v in this House, the present Lord Chancellor said that the occupiers of a close Waddell. " might lawfully have used that close for any purpose for which it might in the ordinary course of the enjoyment of land be used ; and if in what I may term the natural user of that hind there had been... | |
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