 ... underground, and if, by the operation of the laws of nature, that accumulation of water had passed off into the close occupied by the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff could not have complained that that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself...  The Law Times - Page 311869Full view - About this book
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 704 pages
...taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to Lave doue so, by leaving, or by interposing, some barrier between...close of the defendants, in order to have prevented the operation of the laws of nature. . . . On the other hand, if the defendants, not stopping at the... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving, or by interposing...have prevented that operation of the laws of nature. On the other hand, if the defendants, not stopping at the natural use of their close, had desired to... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...limself agaiust it, it would have lain on him to lave done so by leaving or by interposing some >arrier between his close and the close of the defendants...prevented that operation of the laws of nature. As 1111 illustration of that principle, I may refer to a case which was cited in the argument before your... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...result haJ taken placa If he had desired to guard limself against it, it would have lain on him to tiave done so by leaving or by interposing some barrier between his close and the close of the défendante in order to have prevented that operation of the laws of nature. As an illustration of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 638 pages
...so, by leaving, or by interpos" ing, some barrier between his close and the close of the de" fendants in order to have prevented that operation of the " laws of nature." The test here proposed is whether the accumulation took place in the course of the natural user of... | |
 | William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 432 pages
...that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving or by interposing...have prevented that operation of the laws of nature. ... On the other hand, if the Defendants, not stopping at the natural use of their close, had desired... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving, or by interposing,...some barrier between his close and the close of the defendant's, in order to have prevented that operation of the laws of nature. As an illustration of... | |
 | The Court of Session, Court Of Judiciary And Houde of Lords - 1877 - 1418 pages
...that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so by leaving or by interposing some...of that principle I may refer to a case which was ciknl in the argument before your Lordships, the case of Smith v. Kenrick ' in the Court of Common... | |
 | David Sutherland (barrister-at-law.), Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 866 pages
...that result had taken place. If he bad desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving, or by interposing,...have prevented that operation of the laws of nature. . . . On the other hand, if the defendants, not stopping at the natural use of their close, had desired... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 918 pages
...that n-Mult had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so by leaving or by interposing some...order to have prevented that operation of the laws ofAature. As an illustration of that principle I may refer to a case which was cited in the argument... | |
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