 If a person brings, or accumulates, on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbor, he does so at his peril. If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever precautions...  Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, and House of Lords - Page 4771898Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1875 - 474 pages
...terms : " If a person brings and accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage. . . . For when one person, in managing his own affairs, causes, however innocently, damage to another,... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 704 pages
...— "If a person brings, or accumulates, on his laud anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage .... 29 1874 and the doctrine is founded on good sense. For when one person MADRAS ju managing his... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 982 pages
..." If a person brings " or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, " may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however care" ful he may have been, and whatever precautions he may have " taken to prevent the damage." But... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 732 pages
...because if a person brings or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....whatever precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage.—Rylands v. FletcJier (House of Lords), 37 LJ Exch. 161. STAMP DUTY—Lease.—The stamp-duty... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...damage, If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything which if it should escape may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....he may have been, and whatever precautions he may hare taken to prevent the damage. Messrs. Ryland, the plaintiffs in error, defendants (a) Frjiu the... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...and accumulates on his land any thing which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbor, he does so at his peril, if it does escape and cause...responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever predictions he may have taken to prevent the damage. .and the doctrine is founded in good sense. For... | |
 | William Cunningham Glen - Local government - 1872 - 894 pages
...the But if a person brings or accumulates on his land anything, which if it should escape may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril....responsible, however careful he may have been and whatever Works planned by public Boards may it seems be carried out though they tend to the injury of neighbouring... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1874 - 656 pages
...that "if a person brings or accumulates on his land any thing which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour he does so at his peril. If...precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage." (3 LB. HL 340,) and so the Lord Chancellor (Cairns) spoke of this as being a non-natural use of the... | |
 | William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 432 pages
...Defendants would be liable." JO which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he 1874 does so at his peril. If it does escape and cause damage, he is MADRAS responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever preKAILWAY Co. cau ti 0 ns he may... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...should escape, may canse damage to his neighbor, he does so at his peril. If it docs escape and canse damage, he is responsible however careful he may have been, and whatever precantion he may have taken to prevent the damage." Now, in Nichols v. Maraland, the Court of Exchequer... | |
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