A Treatise on the Law of Trespass in the Twofold Aspect of the Wrong and the Remedy, Volume 1

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Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1875 - 1412 pages
 

Contents

CHAPTER II
31
Action for wrong committed by married woman
38
Redress for the wrongful acts of minors
41
Liability of master for wrongful acts of servant
42
Liability of principal for wrongful acts of agent
50
Responsibility of sheriff for the wrongful acts of his deputy
51
Action against corporations
52
Liability of partners
54
Liability of persons whose authority is derived from statute
55
Action in the case of joint wrongdoers
61
Settlement of claim for damages
68
When party confined to remedy given by statute
75
Declaration
76
Plea
81
Replication
87
New assignment
88
Right to open and close
90
Damages
101
Costs
109
Verdict
110
Amendment after verdict
113
Judgment
114
Writ of error
115
New trial
116
BOOK II
120
Meaning of assault
121
Battery defined
124
When accident will excuse
126
Selfdefense
128
Defense of property
135
Retaking property
146
Right of owner or occupier of premises to eject persons therefrom
151
Right of innkeeper to exclude or expel persons
154
Expulsion from religious meeting
158
Right of access to railway depot
177
Seduction of daughter with violence
180
Chastisement of pupil by teacher
182
Chastisement of servant by master
186
Corporal punishment by master of vessel 187
187
Personal violence by husband upon wife
189
Injury from reckless driving
190
Place of trial
195
Holding to bail 200
200
Declaration
203
Plea
206
Replication
216
Right to begin
219
Burden of proof
220
Proof of time
224
Proof of malice
228
Admissions and declarations
230
Evidence of provocation
235
Proof of mitigating circumstances
240
Evidence as to character
243
Proof of consequences of wrongful act
246
Damages from wounded feeling
249
Malicious intent as affecting the damages
251
Damages for assault upon child or servant
255
Damages after conviction for public offense
257
Damages accruing after commencement of action
258
Inadequate or excessive damages
259
Private person aiding officer in arrest
310
What constitutes an arrest
312
Detention by officer of party arrested
314
Officers return
317
Responsibility of magistrates
320
Waiver of right of action
326
Nature of the action
328
Declaration
329
Plea justifying arrest without warrant
330
Plea justifying arrest under process
334
Replication to plea alleging breach of the peace
337
Evidence
341
Damages
350
TRESPASS IN RELATION TO PERSONAL PROPERTY CHAPTER I
355
Property in goods where their character has been changed
358
Property in goods by accession
362
Confusion or intermingling of goods
363
When owner of goods estopped from asserting title to them
366
When property in goods vests in trespasser
368
General rule as to fixtures
369
CHAPTER II
381
Creditor obtaining possession of goods by unlawful means
388
Party directing illegal seizure or sale by officer
390
Right of owner of goods to retake them
401
Return of property by wrongdocr
406
CHAPTER III
409
What essential to constitute an attachment
417
When personal property bound by levy
420
Protection afforded to officer by process
428
Duty and liability of officer in seizing goods
443
Power and duty of person specially authorized to act officially
487
Validity of acts of officer de facto
488
Liability of sheriff for illegal acts of deputy
489
Liability of assessors of taxes
492
Liability of collector of taxes
498
CHAPTER IV
507
In case of goods taken from officer
528
Where goods are taken from a servant 530
530
In the case of a corporation
532
Where property is mortgaged
534
Where the owner has parted with his right of possession
547
In case of bailment
548
Where there has been a conditional sale
555
In case of agency
557
Tenants in common
561
Where possession of goods is obtained by fraud
567
CHAPTER V
585
Declaration
588
Grounds of defense
595
Plea
603
Replication
612
Evidence of possession
614
Proof of taking
615
Evidence as to value
617
Intention
618
Presumptions
620
Evidence of justification
624
Evidence in mitigation of damages
632
Objections to evidence when to be made
635
Damages in general
636
Exemplary damages
647

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Page 644 - From this method of interpreting laws by the reason of them, arises what we call equity, which is thus defined by Grotius : "the correction of that wherein the law (by reason of its universality) is deficient.
Page 528 - For wrongs done to the property, rights or interests of another, for which an action might be maintained against the wrong-doer, such action may be brought by the person injured, or after his death, by his executors or administrators...
Page 21 - That an act done for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law.
Page 351 - Bees also are ferae naturae; but, when hived and reclaimed, a man may have a qualified property in them by the law of nature, as well as by the civil law.
Page 106 - The application to a judge, in the course of a cause, to direct a verdict for one or more of several defendants in trespass is strictly to his discretion ; and that discretion is to be regulated, not merely by the fact that at the close of the plaintiff's case no evidence appears to affect them, but by the probabilities whether any such will arise before the whole evidence in the cause closes.
Page 475 - ... of his father, the owner, was one of the uses for which the vehicle was kept and, therefore, was a part of the service for which the owner had authorized the boy to run the car as his servant. The only difference between that case and this is that here the young man...
Page 178 - Among reasonable persons much difference prevails as to the circumstances which will justify the infliction of punishment, and the extent to which it may properly be administered. On account of this difference of opinion, and the difficulty which exists in determining what is a reasonable punishment, and the advantage which the master has by being on the spot to know all the circumstances— the manner...
Page 551 - But if the pawnee should undertake to pledge the property (not being negotiable securities) for a debt beyond his own, or to make a transfer thereof...
Page 350 - But if a deer, or any wild animal reclaimed, hath a collar or other mark put upon him, and goes and returns at his pleasure...
Page 34 - any married woman may carry on any trade or business, and perform any labor or services, on her sole and separate account, and the earnings of any married woman from her trade, business, labor, or services shall be her sole and separate property, and may be used and invested by her in her own name.

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