 | Thomas Szasz - Political Science - 2003 - 254 pages
...individual to possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others... The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone."22 In 1928, Justice Louis D. Brandeis repeated that famous phrase, stating: "The makers of our... | |
 | Dawn Keetley, John Pettegrew - History - 1997 - 578 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.'" Union Pac. Ry. v. Botsford, 141 US 250, 251 ( 1 891), quoted in Terry v. Ohio, 392 US 1, 8-9(1968).... | |
 | Elizabeth Price Foley - History - 2008 - 303 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.'"51 The Botsford Court referred only to the common law right of bodily autonomy, because the... | |
 | Chin-Sheng Chen, Joaquim Filipe, Isabel Seruca, José Cordeiro - Computers - 2007 - 265 pages
...right to privacy and that the same is a personal right growing out of the inviolability of the person. The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity, to be let alone" (See Ballentine Law Dictionary, 1969). In the context of informational privacy, passive freedom means... | |
 | Sandra Bamford - Social Science - 2007 - 246 pages
...interference of others, unless by a 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' " (Union Pacific Railway v. Botsford [1891], quoted in Bordo 1993: 72). Indeed, the right to bodily... | |
 | James A. Blackburn, Catherine N. Dulmus - Psychology - 2007 - 603 pages
...interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law."5 That is, quoting Judge Cooley, "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be 1 Precedent is defined as "the making of law by a court in recognizing and applying new rules while... | |
 | Anil K. Jain, Patrick Flynn, Arun A. Ross - Computers - 2007 - 556 pages
...treatise on torts, included "the right to be let alone" as a class of tort rights, contending that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity." Echoing and popularizing Cooley 's phrase, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, in their landmark... | |
 | Ramesh Subramanian - Computers - 2008 - 357 pages
...earlier notion that Thomas Mclntyre Cooley articulated in his Treatise of the Law of Torts (1879): "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone" (Cooley, 1879, p. 29). Cooley, in turn, had found this right as a logical correlate to the right to... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 874 pages
...from others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As is 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, 33. Whether an injured person shall submit to a further mutilation of his person is... | |
 | Medicine - 1914 - 306 pages
...others, unless by a clear and unquestionable authority of law; and quoted Judge Cooley's remark that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete imm¡unity to be let alone." Mr. Justice Gray further said: "The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by compulsory stripping... | |
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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... 
