 | Edmund B. Ivatts - Carriers - 1883 - 1168 pages
...spectatur, and I.iord Bacon says — ' It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of action and their impulsions one of another, therefore it...contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of facts by that, without looking to any further degree ' (Bac. Max. Reg., 1 ). I think it clear that... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 734 pages
...Lord Bacon says: " It were infinite for the law to consider the cause of causes, their impulse on one another, therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause and judgeth of acts of that kind without looking to any further degree." Bacon's Maxims, Broom's Legal Maxims, 165. The... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1406 pages
...próxima spectatur* is Englished in Bacon's constantly cited gloss: 'It were infinite for the law to Judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...acts by that, without looking to any further degree.' Liability must be founded on an act which is the 'Immediate cause' of harm or of injury to a right"... | |
 | Criminal law - 1910 - 688 pages
...immediate and not the remote cause of any event is regarded, for " it were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Bacon's Maxims, reg. 1. A " device or apparatus for gambling " is a device or apparatus designed for... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1884 - 730 pages
...Law, regula 1) gives this sound reason for the maxim, that "it were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause." The French codes and jurists, in a case of mere accident by collision, without the fault of either... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 pages
...causes of HOW iwm]'hru.sf<t hy causes, and their impulsions one of another ; therefore it Loixl uaton. contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth...acts by that, without looking to any further degree (71). The above maxim thus explained, or rather paraphrased, by Lord Bacon, although of general application... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - Torts - 1885 - 448 pages
...consequence ? " It were infinite," says Lord Bacon in his Maxims of the Bacon's Law, "for the law to judge the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another;...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." This maxim embodies the rule of law and the reason of Causa proximo / i , . ... must be ch# tne rule,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 772 pages
...'it were infinite for the law to consider the Spensley, Adm'x, etc. vs. The Lancashire Ins. Co. cause of causes and their impulsions, one of another; therefore...acts by that, without looking to any further degree.' But if you find from the evidence in this case that accompanying this tornado or tornado cloud were... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1176 pages
...Negligence (section 73) is this quotation from Lord Bacon: "It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another....cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking for any further degree. " Judge Cooley, in Lewis v. Railway Co., 54 Mich. 55, 19 N. VV. Rep. 744, says... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1176 pages
...remota causa, sed próxima specttitur." Lord Bacon says: "It were infinite for the law to judge tho causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another....contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and Judgeth of actH by that, without looking to any further degree.1' Everett v. London Assurance, 11) CB (NS) 12(¡.... | |
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IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another : therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause ; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree. 
