 Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever 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...  The New-York Legal Observer - Side 153redigert av - 1850Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1848 - 558 sider
...should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him, enacts, " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be... | |
 | Canada - 1848 - 944 sider
...enacted by the authority of the same, That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by ttc^ wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default, is such as would (if damages for death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and reco- any... | |
 | 1848 - 566 sider
...hundred dollars. We do not know but this verdict was legal and right, but we have doubts. The law says, " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act," &c. Can an insane man commit a wrong/ill act in the sense that the law contemplates ? Besides, insane... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1849 - 808 sider
...statute 9 and 10 Viet. c. 93. By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be... | |
 | 1849 - 716 sider
...fares below three cents.* By an act passed in 1847, as amended at tliis session, it is enacted: — Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 710 sider
...fares below three cents.* By an act passed in 1847, as amended at this session, it is enacted: — Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...and the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (had death not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1851 - 836 sider
...statute 9 and 10 Viet. e. 93. By section 1 of that act, it is enacted, that " whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be... | |
 | Vermont - 1851 - 838 sider
...hereafter be caused by the" wrongful act, neglect, or default of any person, either natural or artificial, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would...an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person or corporation who would have been liable to such action,... | |
 | Ohio - 1851 - 196 sider
...aet, neglect or default. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Damages reOhio, That whenever the death of a person shall be caused...or default; and the act, neglect or default is such rtn would (if death had not ensued,) have entitled the party Injured to maintain an action and recover... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1886 - 744 sider
...p. 127 ; How. Stat. §§ 8313, 8314), which is a general statute, and in its first section provides that " Whenever the death of a person shall be caused...an action, and recover damages, in respect thereof, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death... | |
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