 | Eileen Patricia Flynn - Medical - 1990 - 116 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... | |
 | Robert Ellis Smith - Law - 1993 - 70 pages
...Warren, as articulated in 1888 by Judge Thomas M. Cooley in his treatise on torts, Cooley on Torts.12 "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone," Cooley wrote. Both Brandeis and Warren and the Court in 1891 quoted this passage. The Supreme Court... | |
 | R. B. Pearson - Health & Fitness - 1993 - 168 pages
...others unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law." As well said by Judge Cooley: "The right of 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 a compulsory stripping... | |
 | R. B. Pearson - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 156 pages
...others unless by clear and unquestioned authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley: "The right of 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 a compulsory stripping... | |
 | Judith Wagner DeCew - Law - 1997 - 228 pages
...Human Beings," 169195, for descriptions of the variability of privacy protection in other societies. 10 "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone" (Thomas C. Cooley, Law of Torts, 29 [ad ed., 1888]). Contrary to Parent's claim that Warren and Brandéis... | |
 | Peter A. Coclanis, Stuart Weems Bruchey - History - 1999 - 260 pages
...However, the strong, straightforward, and single-minded articulation of the right to bodily integrity, "'the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone/" as expressed by a justice of the Supreme Court more than a hundred years ago, applies almost entirely... | |
 | Charles J. Sykes - Political Science - 1999 - 289 pages
...to be let alone." That honor goes to Judge Thomas M. Cooley, whose treatise on torts insisted that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity to be let alone. . . .'>25 Although the constitutional right to privacy grew out of outrage against tyrannical overreaching... | |
 | Anil Jain, Ruud Bolle, Sharath Pankanti - Computers - 1999 - 434 pages
...hls treatise on torts, included "the right to be let alone" as a class of ton rights, contending that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity." Echoing and popularizutg Cooley's phrase. Warren and Brandeis, in their classic article written over... | |
 | Laurinda B. Harman - Medical - 2001 - 422 pages
...privacy rights was Judge Thomas Cooley's ( 1 888) Treatise on the Law of Torts, which suggested that the "right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone" (p. 29). In contrast to privacy, which historically has been used to refer to protection against unwanted... | |
 | Steven Wise - Science - 2000 - 386 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."49 Immunities insulate a person from the scholars' struggle over mental capacity that may plague... | |
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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... 
