 I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger, and lightning broke his chain, and he got loose and did mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable.  Harvard Law Review - Side 4861909Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1875 - 682 sider
...agent he cannot control. I am by no means sure that the comparison of water to a wild animal is exact ; I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger and...mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable. But this case, and the case I have put of the chimneys, are not cases of keeping a dangerous beast... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1875 - 410 sider
...whence another agent let it loose. I am by no means sure that the likeness of a wild animal is exact. I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger,...mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable. But this case, and the case I put of the chimneys, are not cases of keeping a dangerous beast for amusement,... | |
 | 1875 - 462 sider
...agent he cannot control. I am by no means sure that the comparison of water to a wild animal is exact ; I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger and...mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable. But this case, and the case I have put of the chimneys, are not cases of keeping a dangerous beast... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1877 - 916 sider
...loose. I am by no means sure that the likeness of a wild animal is exact. I am by no means sure that L, if a man kept a tiger, and lightning broke his chain,...loose and did mischief, that the man who kept him 1 would not be liable. But this case, and the case I put of the chimneys, are not cases of keeping... | |
 | William Evans - 1879 - 802 sider
...latent, the water escaped or the bricks fell. But here the act is that of an agent he cannot control. ... I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger,...mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable." [495*] *The first judicial exposition of the meaning of the expression " act of God," so far, at least,... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - 1885 - 610 sider
...liable for acts of strangers. Statutory powers to be exercised with great care. referred to (r) : — " I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger, and lightning hroke his chain, and he got loose and did mischief, that the man who kept him would not be liable."... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1888 - 1060 sider
...whence another agent let it loose. I am by no means sure that the likeness .of a wild animal is exact. I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger,...chain, *and he got loose and did mischief, that the man [*573] who kept him would not be liable. But this case and the case I put of the chimneys are not cases... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 sider
...whatever. To such an extent is this carried that Bramwell, E., in Nichols v. Marsland, is reported : "I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger, and light ning broke his chain, and he got loose and did mischief, that the man who kept him would not... | |
 | James William Norton-Kyshe - 1904 - 432 sider
...Discretion," 7. See also " Sovereignty," 10. " Hungry after jurisdiction." See " Jurisdiction," 6. " I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger," &c. See " Tort," 11. " I am entitled to sit in the testator's chair," &c. See " Will," 2, n. "I beseech... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1906 - 494 sider
...being liable for any damage done by their being overthrown by a hurricane or an earthquake ? . . . I am by no means sure that if a man kept a tiger,...got loose, and did mischief, that the man who kept J1im would not be liable. But this case, and the case which I put of the chimneys, are not cases of... | |
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