The Law Times, Volume 9

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Page 9 - ... that every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent, and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused, and shall be brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator of the person deceased ; and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 9 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if deatli had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable To an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and...
Page 107 - ... that is to say : words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number, words importing the masculine gender shall include females ; the word
Page 101 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 43 - And by the 113th section it is enacted that, " if any action shall be commenced after the passing of this act in any of her Majesty's Superior Courts of Record...
Page 128 - Act the right to make an entry or distress or bring an action to recover any land or rent shall be deemed to have first accrued at such time as hereinafter is mentioned ; (that is to say,) when the person claiming such land or rent, or some person through whom he claims...
Page 26 - Court, as well the party issuing such process as the party making such claim, and thereupon to...
Page 43 - Fourth (chapter seventyfour), "for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and " for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance...
Page 103 - ... of that negligence. Both of these questions the jury found in favour of the plaintiff. No question was left to the jury as to whether they thought that, in fact, the defendant was the employer of the shipkeeper, nor was my Brother Mellor asked to leave that question to the jury. A rule nisi was obtained to enter a nonsuit, on the ground that there was no evidence to fix the defendant, which was argued before my Brothers Mellor and Lush, and myself.
Page 97 - Act being eligible as members of such new body ; and at the first ordinary meeting to be held every year thereafter the shareholders present, personally or by proxy, shall elect persons to supply the places of the directors then retiring from office, agreeably to the provisions hereinafter contained ; and the several persons elected at any such meeting, being neither removed nor disqualified, nor having resigned, shall continue to be directors until others are elected in their stead, as hereinafter...

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