 But we think the real answer to the objection is, that no wrong-doer can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful...  The Law Times - Sida 771877Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1830 - 846 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...might admit of a different construction if he could shew, not only that the same loss might have happened, but that it must have happened if the act complained... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1832 - 952 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer to the action, the bare possibility of a loss if such wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction, if he could shew,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1832 - 948 sidor
...his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer to the action, the bare possibility of a loss if such wrongful act had never been done. It might admit of a different construction, if he could shew, not only that the same loss might have happened, but that it must have happened, if the act complained... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - 1846 - 1088 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...a loss if his wrongful act had never been done. It admits of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have happened,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1852 - 722 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done."* So in Massachusetts, it was held, in an action for trespass* for digging into a river bank near a dam,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1853 - 584 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...loss, if his wrongful act had never been done. It miijht admit of a different construction, if he could show, not only that tJie same loss might have... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1856 - 728 sidor
...has actually happened, whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...could show, not only that the same loss might have hapBAIL. 32 there is, or ought to be, any difference between cases where the misconduct of the hirer... | |
 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - 1856 - 996 sidor
...has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...a loss if his wrongful act had never been done. It admits of a different construction, if he could show, not only that the same loss might have happened,... | |
 | Commission Under the Convention Between the United States & Paraguay, 1859 - 1860 - 180 sidor
...has actually happened while his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer...of a loss if his wrongful act had never been done." See also the " Amiable Nancy," 3 Wheaton, 546 and 558, where it was held that, " had the action been... | |
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