 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
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1916 - 1292 pages
...residents with electricity: Cooksley v. New Westminster, 14 BC 330, on liability of person who brings on his land anything which if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbor ; Winnipeg Oil Co. v. Canadian Northern R. Co. 21 Manitoba L. Rep. 274, holding that railroad... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 570 pages
...Right of action — Consequential damage. Fletcher v. Rylands, Rylands v. Fletcher, cxliii. 611, 629. If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything...damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril, and if it does escape and cause damage he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever... | |
 | Charles Albert Keigwin - Torts - 1920 - 562 pages
...was correctly stated by Mi;. JUSTICE BLACKBURN in delivering the opinion of the Exchequer Chamber. Tf 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 dees escape and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torrts - 1920 - 782 pages
...water, or filth, or stenches." In the House of Lords (d) the reasons thus given were fully confirmed. " If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause (d) Rylanda v. Fletcher (1868) LR 3 II. L. 330, 37 LJ Ex. 161, 143 RR 629. damage to his neighbours,... | |
 | Alured Nathaniel Myddelton Wilshere, John Indermaur, Alured Myddelton Wilshere - History - 1922 - 742 pages
...property for purposes other than those which are natural " (x), and for the purposes of such use " brings or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his (r) The Bernina, 13 AC, at p. 18, overruling Thorogood v. Bryan, 8 CB 115, and distinguishing Waite... | |
 | Bar associations - 1923 - 920 pages
...decision was affirmed in the House of Lords where the Eule was thus expressed by Lord Cranworth:» "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... | |
 | Torts - 1924 - 794 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1068 pages
...principle on which the judgment was rested is thus stated by Lord Cran worth: "If a person brings and accumulates on his land anything, which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbor, he does so at his peril. lf it does escape, and cause damage, ho is responsible, however... | |
 | Law - 1899 - 538 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, be is responsible, however... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 676 pages
...Blackburn in Rylands v Fletcher, LR 3 E. & I. App. 330, and succinctly thus stated by Lord Cranworth — " 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... | |
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