 We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable...  The Law Times - Page 311869Full view - About this book
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - Electric engineering - 1891 - 576 pages
...his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the... | |
 | Sir John William Salmond - Contracts - 1891 - 256 pages
...on land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. . . . This, we (1) May ». Burdett, 9 QB... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - Damages - 1891 - 742 pages
...his lands and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." In support of this doctrine, he cited the... | |
 | Sir Henry Wilmot Seton - Equity pleading and procedure - 1891 - 1018 pages
...mischief (eg, water) must •vOL. I. i. 1. take care that they do not get on to his neighbeur's land, he is prima facie answerable for all damage which is the natural consequence of its escape : Fletcher v. Rylands, 3 H. & C. 774 ; LR 1 Ex. 265 ; 3H. L. 330 ; Crompton v. Lea, 19 Eq. 128 ; Baird... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1891 - 416 pages
...lands, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in a^his peril, and if he does not do so, is pr'ima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1892 - 802 pages
...lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima fade answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1893 - 472 pages
...anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril ; and if he does not do so, he is prima facie answerable for all damage which is...escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintift's default, or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major or... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1074 pages
...lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape; and although harmless to others so long... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff's default; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1894 - 842 pages
...escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if it does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major,... | |
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