 | Law - 1869 - 492 pages
...states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words : "We think that the true rule of the law is that the person who for his own purposes, brings on lis land and collects and keeps there anything; ikely to do mischief, if it escapee must keep it u... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1869 - 796 pages
...which they were aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts led to. " We think that the rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there any thing l1kely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and that if he does not do... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...principles referred to by Blackburn, J. in his judgment in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, where lie states the opinion of that court as to the law in...person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land aud collects and keeps there anything likely to do niiichief, if it escapes must keep it in at his... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1382 pages
...3 HL 330, 339, 340, and approved by this court in Shipley v. Fifty Associates, 106 Mass. 104, 198, is that " the person, who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1872 - 512 pages
...confirmed the judgment of Mr. Justice Blackburn in the court below. That learned judge said, " We think the rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps anything that is likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 788 pages
...the plaintiff's cattle. This case is distinguishable from Fletcher v. Rylands ('). That case decided that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and keeps there anything likely to do mischief, must take care of it at his peril, and is answerable for... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...which was afterward affirmed in the house of lords, expresses himself substantially thus: Whoever, for his own purposes, brings on his land, and collects and keeps there any thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril. He illustrates this proposition... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...act in itself wrongful. But Mr. Justice Blackburn put the case on broader grounds. He said, "We think the true rule of law Is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...Law J. Rep.. NS, Exch. 154. In delivering the jndgment of the court, Mr. Justice Blackburn said : " We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his own land, and collects and keeps there, any thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 682 pages
...Rylands\.Fletch•er (LR, 3 E. & I. App. 330), a case as to the damage resulting from the bursting of a reservoir. " The true rule of law is that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in... | |
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We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable... 
