 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...of the existence of which they were aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts went to. We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1894 - 842 pages
...answerable for escape arising from any latent defect which ordinary prudence and skill could not detect " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 1120 pages
...of Exchequer Chamber, per Blackburn, J., gave judgment for the plaintiff on the following ground : " We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purpose, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 388 pages
...case is generally cited as deciding that "the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and if he does so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1895 - 628 pages
...English view is by Blackburn, J., who says in Fletcher v. Rylands, LR 1. Ex. 279, 280, 281, 282, — "We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it' in... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 734 pages
...1 LR Exch. 265, wherein the principle was enunciated that one who for his own purposes brings upon his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. It will... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...Lord Cairns, C., Rule fommreading at length Blackburn, Js, statement, in which he said : B^bum J , " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, i?*'?0 PI. • 1-11.-, -1 Exchequer for his own purposes, brings on Ins land and collects and chamber... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1896 - 468 pages
...will not be liable in damages, though mischief should thereby be occasioned to his neighbor.1 But a person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land,...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it 1 Chasemore v. Richards, 7 HL Cas. 849. there at his peril ; and if he does not, he will be answerable,... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 942 pages
...quotations from that case, as furnishing the correct principle applicable to cases of this character : " ' We think that the true rule of law is. that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief, if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 744 pages
...Chamber, in Fletcher v. Sy lands (14 WR 799, at p. 801 ; LR [1 Ex.] 265, at p. 279), where it is said : ' We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
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We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable... 
