 | South Australia. Supreme Court - 1871 - 194 pages
...disS.PKKME CO.KT. charging the payee. In 1 Comyn's Digest (F) it is laid down — " So in every case when a Statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." In our opinion, however, the plaintiff is not within the principle above enunciated. To whom did the... | |
 | 1872 - 536 pages
...for the benefit of a person, he shall have a remedy upon the same statute, for the thing enacted to his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done...action, in the same manner as if the obligation had been expressly imposed by the common law, or had been expressly included in the ship's articles." His Lordship... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1858 - 804 pages
...393; 5 Id. 175. 3. Case lies where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person. In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law. Com. Dig. Action upon statute (F); 3 El. & Black. 411. When a statute enacts that every ship shall... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1876 - 874 pages
...are aggrieved by the neglect of any obligation or duty created or imposed by -statute; (/£) and " in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." (/) Wherever a statute creates a right, or a duty, or an obligation, then, although it has not in express... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1876 - 832 pages
...212. Reg. ». Mann, 23 Law TR 12. of any obligation or duty created or imposed by statute(A) ; and " in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law"(Z). Wherever a statute creates a right, or a duty, or an obligation, then, although it has not... | |
 | Edmond Robert Turner - 1882 - 210 pages
...any duty created by statute: see 2nd Inst. 486. And in Com. Dig. Action upon Statute (F.) it is laid down that, ' in every case where a statute enacts...had been expressly included in the ship's articles." In the same case it was also decided that a provision in the same section of the Act imposing a penalty... | |
 | 1913 - 1236 pages
...maintained.' The common-law rule referred to is thus stated in Couiyu's Digest, Action upon Statutes: 'In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law.' Another common-law authority thus states the rule: 'Whenever an act of Parliament doth prohibit anything,... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1884 - 834 pages
...a person he shall have a remedy upon the the same statute for the thing enacted for his advantaye, or for the recompense of a -wrong done to him contrary to the said law." In Ashby v. White, Holt, CJ seemed to think that the refusal to receive a vote was an actionable wrong... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - 1885 - 448 pages
...neglect of any duty created by statute. And in Comyn's Digest, Title "Action upon Statute, F," it is laid down, that " in every case where a statute enacts...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." In the Anonymous case, argued before Holt, CJ, the principle is applied to an action by a devisee under... | |
 | 1914 - 812 pages
...in reaching this result Lord Campbell quoted without qualification the statement of Comyns's Digest that "in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law," as if it meant that in all cases where one whom a criminal statute was intended to benefit is harmed... | |
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So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person, he shall have a remedy upon the same statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law. 
