 No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority...  Negligence of Imposed Duties, Carriers of Passengers - Page 712by Charles Andrew Ray - 1893 - 820 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...power to make and enforce such an order. No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of bis own person, free from nil restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 pages
...US 250, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1001, that: "No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every Individual to the possession and control of his OWB person, free from all restraint or intfirfprenrfl of nthftrq. linlpfla liv nlpnr nnrl unniiAa nion... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1150 pages
...Inchoate violence, the insult, and the implied charge that she was a shoplifter. It has been said that : "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity, to be let alone. An attempt to commit a battery usually involves an assault, a putting in /ear, a sudden call upon the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1170 pages
...distinction of terms in our modern practice." Judge Cooley, in his Elements of Torts (page 29), said: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity ; to be let alone. An attempt to commit a battery usually involves an insult, a putting in fear, a sudden call upon the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1202 pages
...right of private property." 3 Bl. Comm. p. *119. Judge Cooley. in hie Elements of Torts (page 9), said: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right to complete immunity; to be let alone. An attempt to commit a battery usually Involves ar, insult,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1162 pages
...of the person, defined by Judge Cooley In his work on Torts (2d Ed.) p. 29, as: "Personal Immunity. The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete Immunity, to be let alone" — and that a person Is entitled to relief at law or In equity for an Invasion of the same, Is generally... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1256 pages
...Botsford, before cited, Judge Gray said: "No right is held more sacred, or Is more carefully guarded by the common law, than the right of every individual...unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. So far as the books within our reach show, no order to inspect the body of a party in a personal action... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1888 - 1060 pages
...give a right of action, but the destruction of which would give no action whatever. Personal Immunity. The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity : to be let alone. The corresponding duty is, not to inflict an injury, and not, within such proximity as might render... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1891 - 758 pages
...power to make and enforce such an order. No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual...be a right of complete immunity ; to be let alone." Cooley, Torts, 29. For instance, not only wearing apparel, but a watch or a jewel, worn on the person,... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 270 pages
...does not apply to such examination. " No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law than the right of every individual...unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. * * To compel any one, and especially a woman, to lay bare the body, or to submit it to the touch of... | |
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