 | United States U.S. Congress. House. Committee on education - 1921
...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
...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... | |
 | Rhode Island. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910
...of the inviolability of the person, denned by Judge Cooley in his work on Torts, 2d ed. p. 29, as: "Personal Immunity. The right to one's person may...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 53 pages
...originally published in 1879. In discoursing on "The Right of Privacy," Judge Cooley asserted that "The right to one's person may be said to be a right to complete immuntiy: to be let alone." 8 Then, in 1890, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis published... | |
 | Richard D. Mohr - Law - 1988 - 357 pages
...all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. . . . "The right to one's person may be said to be a right...of complete immunity: to be let alone." . . . The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by a compulsory stripping and exposure as by a blow.... | |
 | Eileen Patricia Flynn - Medical - 1990 - 106 pages
...control over their bodies. In support of this stance the court quoted Judge Cooley's famous dictum: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone."10 The court noted that surgery which is performed without consent is considered an act of assault... | |
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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... 
