 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone - 1827 - 764 sidor
...William Jones, that where a bailee undertakes to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive benefit, there the bailee is only liable...omission of that skill is imputable to him as gross negligence. If in this case a ship-broker, or a clerk in the custom-house, had undertaken to enter... | |
 | William Jones - 1828 - 328 sidor
...Jones, that where a bailee undertakes " to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive "benefit, there the bailee is only liable...negligence; but if a " man gratuitously undertakes to do any thing to the best of his skill, " where his situation or profession is such as to imply skill,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1828 - 668 sidor
...William Jones, that where a bailee undertakes to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive benefit, there the bailee is only liable for gross negligence ; but if a man gratuitously undertake to do a thing to the best of his skill, where his situation or profession is such as to imply... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 sidor
...he injure the promisee by his gross neglect, or wrongful act ; and if his situation or profession be such as to imply skill, an omission of that skill is imputable to him as gross negligence. A count in a declaration stating that the plaintiff retained the defendant, who was a carpenter,... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 sidor
...bailee undertakes to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive benefit, then the bailee is only liable for gross negligence. But...undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, when his situation or profession is suck as to imply skill, an omission of that skill is imputable... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 sidor
...William Jones, that where a bailee undertakes to perform и gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone U to receive benefit, there the bailee is only liable, for gross negligence ; but if a mnn gratuitously undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, where his situation or profession... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1863 - 572 sidor
...Even where a person acts gratuitously, if he undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, and if his situation or profession is such as to imply skill,...omission of that skill is imputable to him as gross negligence (6). The agent must act according to the accustomed mode of Must aet no,,7, . , , cording... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1863 - 570 sidor
...Even where a person acts gratuitously, if he undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, and if his situation or profession is such as to imply skill,...omission of that skill is imputable to him as gross negligence (6). The agent must act according to the accustomed mode of Must act ae,. , . ,,,, , . ,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1864 - 674 sidor
...negligence. Thus, it was said by Lord LoUGHBOROUGH, in Shiells v. Blackbume (1 Hen. BL, 158), that "if a man gratuitously undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, when his situation or profession is such as to imply skill, an omission of that skill is imputable... | |
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I agree with Sir William Jones, that where a bailee undertakes to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive benefit, there the bailee is only liable for gross negligence; but if a man gratuitously undertakes to do a thing to... 
