 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
 | Law - 1893 - 718 pages
...E. & I. App. 330, appear to carry the liability higher, for it was there said by Lord Cranworth, " 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 docs escape and cause " damage he is responsible, however... | |
 | Viktor Knapp - Comparative law - 1983 - 820 pages
...was made with the famous case of Rylands v. Fletcher."6 By this case, the doctrine was kid down that "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... | |
 | Marie-Louise Larsson - Law - 1999 - 696 pages
...elaborated by Lord Cranworth who in addition based his argument on the maxim sic utere tuo and concluded727: "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... | |
 | Lawrence O. Gostin - Law - 2000 - 524 pages
...Claims Act waives sovereign immunity for claims of government negligence, but not strict liability.59 his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his periL"40 Thus, if a nonnatural substance "does escape, and causes damage, he is responsible, however... | |
 | Elizabeth Brubaker - Political Science - 2007 - 166 pages
...out in the 1868 British case, Rylands v. Fletcher. He cited the rule articulated in that decision: '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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 1026 pages
...against them? The case of Flrfrlifr and another v. Iti/lindu (lit LT Rep. NS 220) decides that if any person brings or accumulates on his land anything...cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril ; and if it escapes and causes damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 1026 pages
...330, laid down the following principle :— " 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 it does escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful be may bare been and whatever precaution he may have... | |
 | Québec (Province). Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 624 pages
...Council laid down this principle years ago, and it decided in the case of Fletetier <& Rylanfl* (l) that, if a person brings or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to hie neighborhood, he does so at his peril. If it does escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however... | |
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