 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 If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever precautions...  Name-Powers - Page 53by John Mews - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 948 pages
...law was correctly stated by Mr. Justice Blackburn in delivering the opinion of the Exchequer Chamber. 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... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1890 - 694 pages
...in the House of tion thereofbyH.L. Lords (4), but the reasons given for it were fully confirmed. " If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything...which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbours, he does so at his peril. If it does escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however... | |
 | Sir John William Salmond - Contracts - 1891 - 256 pages
...whether the things so brought be beasts or water or filth or stenches." And in the House of Lords : (') " If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything...neighbour, 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 he may... | |
 | Jean Joseph Beauchamp, Great Britain. Privy Council - Civil law Canada - 1891 - 946 pages
...without negligence on the respondent's part, this latter was not liable. 22. If a person brings and accumulates on his land anything which, if it should...neighbour, 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 he may... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...law was correctly stated by Mr. Justice Blackburn in delivering the opinion of the Exchequer Chamber. If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything...neighbour, 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 he may... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 694 pages
...Justice BLACKBURN, in the court of Exchequer Chamber, thus illustrates a rule applicable iu this case: "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." This principle, thus established, has since been applied to injuries... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1894 - 842 pages
...this decision affirmed in the House of Lords (6), but the reasons given for it were fully confirmed. " If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything...which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbours, he does so at his peril. If it does escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however... | |
 | Carman Fitz Randolph - Eminent domain - 1894 - 604 pages
...flooded the plaintiff's mine. In giving judgment for the plaintiff this broad proposition was stated, " If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything,...which if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbors, he does so at his peril. If it does escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Contracts - 1894 - 576 pages
...law was correctly stated by Mr. Justice Blackburn in delivering the opinion of the Exchequer Chamber. 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... | |
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