 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883
...le wood v. Mayor. The condition upon which the statutory liability depends is declared to be, " that the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death...injured to maintain an action and recover damages," etc. This language is accurate if the act was intended to apply to the '.•ase of a party, who having... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 516 pages
...288, 321. See also now the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, 43 & 44 Viet c. 42, pott, pp. 378-380. 374 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883
...writ of error. The suit is based on section 5, c. 103, Code, p. 725 (ed. 1891) : " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default," etc. — the West Virginia form of the Lord Campbell Act. The declaration contains three counts. The... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921
...Lord Campbell's Act, and which provides that an action will lie whenever death shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the injured person to recover, etc., and further provides that the action shall... | |
 | Railroad law - 1916
...case is, indeed, within the express words of the statute — the death of Trawford having been ' ' caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, ' ' and the act, neglect or default being such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - Internal revenue - 1975
...Statutes relating to death by wrongful act provide: Sec. 12-611. Liability When death of a person is Internal Revenue Service( _specifically exempted...disclosure by statute; (4) trade secrets and commerci ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1994 - 490 pages
...USC, entitled Death on the High Seas by Wrongful Act, provides in pertinent part: ' Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, .... the personal representative... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1969
...navigational aids, and the 4 41 Stat. 537, 46 USC §§ 761-768. 46 USC § 761 reads: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia,... | |
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Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default, is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages, in respect thereof... 
