| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1982 - 1050 pages
...In Comyns' Digest, at 442, the rule was broadly stated: "So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." 4 As Justice Frankfurter stated in... | |
| Sir John Comyns - 1824 - 840 pages
...his name alone, as well as by qui tain Д-с. 2 Inst. 200. So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law. Per Holt, Mod. Ca. 26, 7. An action... | |
| 1872 - 978 pages
...is laid down in Comyn'g Digest Action upon Statute (F) — " So in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person he...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." This rule, therefore, should be made... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis, Colin Blackburn Baron Blackburn, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber - 1855 - 1124 pages
...in Com. Dig., Action upon Statute (F), it is laid down that, "in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore the simple enactment requiring... | |
| Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - 1855 - 688 pages
...Com. Dig. tit. "Action upon Statute," F, it is l»id down that "in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore, the simple enactment requiring... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pages
...prvdicta staluta." See 2d Inst. 486. And the general rule, that in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the law in question, is declared by the text-writers... | |
| South Australia. Supreme Court - 1871 - 194 pages
...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 person,...Statute for the thing enacted for his advantage or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." In our opinion, however, the plaintiff... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - 1872 - 672 pages
...in Com. Dig. Action upon Statute, (F), it is laid down that, " in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore the simple enactment requiring... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 pages
...neglect of any duty created by law.J And the general rule, that in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the law in question, is declared by the text- writers... | |
| Conway Robinson - 1858 - 804 pages
...statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person. In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law. Com. Dig. Action upon statute (F);... | |
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