 | Viktor Knapp - Comparative law - 1983 - 820 pages
...doctrine was originally formulated by Blackburn, J. in the Court of Exchequer in the following terms: "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 at his... | |
 | Eric Rakowski - Distributive justice - 1991 - 402 pages
...liability and two corresponding rules. Justice Blackburn, writing in the Exchequer Chamber, asserted that "the true rule of law is that the person who...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
 | Patrick Nerhot - Law - 1990 - 266 pages
...and finally it set up the principle ...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 at his peril, and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Political Science - 1991 - 486 pages
...animals, and in the derivative principle of Rylands v. Fletcher,5 that when a person brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, he must keep it in at his peril ;. and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the... | |
 | Christian Bouscaren, Rosalind Greenstein, Alexandre Cordahi - English language - 1993 - 542 pages
...summed up in the words of Lord Blackburn - '... a 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 at his peril, and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 960 pages
...well-known case of llylands v, Fletcher, LE 3 HL 330. It will be remembered that it was there decided that a person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land...there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, he must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so he is prima facie liable for all the damage... | |
 | A. D. F. Price - Business & Economics - 1995 - 158 pages
...responsible because the court ruled that "any person who for his own purposes brings on his or her lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes must keep it at his or her peril and if he or she does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which... | |
 | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder - Law - 1997 - 532 pages
...Lordships that there is a similar prerequisite of recovery of damages under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. '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... | |
 | N. C. Dhoundiyal - History - 1997 - 222 pages
...The rule as laid down in the case of Rylands v. Fletcher11, speaks as "person who for his own purpose brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to be a mischief of its escapes, must keep it at his peril, and if he does not do so is prima facie answerable... | |
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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... 
