Category: Law & Criminology
The chief occasion for this edition is the change in the first-year curriculum in Harvard Law School, which assigned to other courses many things formerly appropriated to the course in the Law of Torts and hence treated in former editions. Thus causation is now treated in a co...
The chief occasion for this edition is the change in the first-year curriculum in Harvard Law School, which assigned to other courses many things formerly appropriated to the co...
2. CHAPTER I3. CHAPTER IINEGLIGENT INTERFERENCE Section 1. Negligence as a ground of liability 29 Section 2. Interests secured 45 Section 3. The standard of care 63 Section 4. Proof of negligence 98 Sec...
4. CHAPTER IIIUNINTENDED NON-NEGLIGENT INTERFERENCE Section 1. Trespass on land by animals 404 Section 2. Injuries by animals 419 Section 3. Dangerous use of land 452 Section 4. Violation of...
5. CHAPTER VIIIBachelder _v._ Heagan 496 Banks _v._ Braman 340 Barnes _v._ Campbell 732 Barr _v._ Essex Trades Council 998 Barrows _v._ Bell 729 Beach _v._ Hancock 7 Beals _v._ Thompson 749 Be...
6. CHAPTER I_I. De S. & M. uxor ejus querunt de W. De S. de eo quod idem W. anno, &c., vi et armis, &c., apud S., in ipsam M. insultum fecit, et ipsam verberavit, &c._ And W. pleaded not gu...
7. CHAPTER IIWeaver brought an action of trespass of assault and battery against Ward. The defendant pleaded that he was, amongst others, by the commandment of the lords of the council, a tr...
8. volume ii of the supplement to the American and English Encyclopædia“This so-called exception to the rule of contributory negligence (_i. e._, the doctrine of ‘the last clear chance’) will not be extended to cases where the plaintiff’s own negli...
9. CHAPTER IIIThe plaintiff proved that towards night, on June 27, the defendant’s cow was upon his premises grazing, between his house and stable. There was no fence between his land and the...
10. mill. They employed a competent engineer and competent contractors toconstruct the reservoir. It was not known to Rylands and Horrocks, nor to any of the persons employed by them, that any coal had ever been worked under or near the site of the r...
11. CHAPTER IVThis was an action in the nature of a writ of deceit, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue. And after a verdict for the plaintiffs on the third count, a motion was m...
12. CHAPTER VThe action is brought to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution claimed to have been instituted by the respondent against the appellant in Mexico. It is in the com...
13. CHAPTER VIThe witness who was called to prove the publication of the libel (which was contained in a letter written by the defendant to the plaintiff) stated on cross-examination that the...
14. CHAPTER VIIPARKER, C. J.[526] The Appellate Division[527] has certified that the following questions of law have arisen in this case, and ought to be reviewed by this court: 1. Does the co...
15. CHAPTER VIIIAn action upon the case for a slander was brought by Anne Davies against John Gardiner; That whereas there was a communication of a marriage to be had between the plaintiff and...