 We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land 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...  Name-Powers - Page 209by John Mews - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 702 pages
...Associates, 106 Mass. 194, 198, is that " the person, who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...it in at his peril ; and, if he does not do so, is pritnd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." This rule... | |
 | William Evans - Agency (Law) - 1879 - 802 pages
...Blackburn observed: "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief, and it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for... | |
 | Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - Canals - 1880 - 788 pages
...376. " ' think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, " ' for his own purposes, brings on his land, and collects " ' and keeps there anything...likely to do mischief if it " ' escapes, must keep it at his peril ; and if he does not do " ' so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is... | |
 | John Melville Gould - Riparian rights - 1883 - 972 pages
...Works, LR 10 Q. Board, 4 Ex. D. 5 ; 27 Am. L. Reg. B. 453. 348 ; Chalmers v. Dixon, 3 Sesslons lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do...keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, \& prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes, Thomas A. Nelham - Law examinations - 1883 - 474 pages
...of Lords held the defendant was liable, on the ground that "a person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and if ho does not do so, is primd facie responsible for all the damage which is the... | |
 | John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1048 pages
...his land, as in the case of an adjoining mine owner. Ib. Л person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything...it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so. is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape, however careful... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1134 pages
...(applicable to a great variety of cases) that "the person who, for his own purposes, brings upon his lauds, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do...It in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." Nor Is the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1172 pages
...think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, ilirings on his own land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his own peril ; and if he does not do so, is pruna facie answerable for all the damage which is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1172 pages
...true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and «•oileets and keeps there anything likely to do mischief If it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - Employers' liability - 1885 - 610 pages
...was delivered by Blackburn, J., in these words : — " The person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything...must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do BO, is priinu facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape But... | |
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