 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1914 - 964 pages
...Judge Cooley in his work on Torts, in discussing the right of personal immunity, uses this language: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone."4 The expression "to be let alone" comprehends the whole idea of the right of privacy ; but... | |
 | Library of Congress. Copyright Office - Copyright - 1918 - 628 pages
...work on Torts (2d ed.), p. 29, as: " Personal immunity. The right to one's person may be Page 10°. said to be a right of complete immunity, to be let alone "—and that a person is entitled to relief at law or in equity for an invasion of the same, is generally... | |
 | Thomas Welburn Hughes - Evidence (Law) - 1921 - 952 pages
...interference or otherwise, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley, "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity ; to be let alone." Cooley on Torts 29. The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by the compulsory stripping... | |
 | United States U.S. Congress. House. Committee on education - 1921 - 66 pages
...interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley : " The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone." (Cooley, Torts. 29.) For instance, not only wearing apparel, but a watch or a jewel, worn on the person,... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 582 pages
...interference by others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley, "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone." Cooley Torts, 29. "The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by a compulsory stripping as... | |
 | Lyman P. Wilson - Torts - 1928 - 1130 pages
...private^ property. ' ' 3 Black. Comm. p. *119. Judge Cooley in his Elements of Torts (page 9), said: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right to complete immunity; to be let alone. An attempt to commit a battery usually involves an insult, a... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1955 - 956 pages
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... No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable... 
