 We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his 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...  Ruling Cases - Page 249edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1080 pages
...reading from the extract in Lord Cairns' judgment in the House of Lords) : "We think that the true [836] rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Arthur Joseph Hunt, Robert George Nicholson Combe - Adjoining landowners - 1912 - 336 pages
...the subject was laid down in the Exchequer Chamber by BLACKBURN, J. (Z), in the following terms : " The person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects zmd keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 1024 pages
...Fletcher v. Eylnnda (1866), LR 1 Ex. 379, laid down the law thus: " We think that the true rule of the law is, that the person who, for his own purposes,' brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1914 - 964 pages
...Court of Exchequer Chamber, where he states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words: "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Charles Albert Keigwin - Torts - 1915 - 584 pages
...Court of Exchequer Chamber, where he states the opinion of that Court as to the law in these words : "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...Justice Blackburn, of the English Court of Exchequer, thus lays down the rule on this subject: " We think the true rule of law is, that the person, who for his own use or pleasure brings on his land, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief, if... | |
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 664 pages
...v. Sampson, supra, announced in the well-known case of Rylands v. Fletcher, LR 3 HL 330, as follows: "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on to his own land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep... | |
 | Richard Ringwood - Torts - 1924 - 422 pages
...clearly by Blackburn, J., in the Court below, quoted with approval by the Lord Chancellor (Lord Cairns): "We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1925 - 546 pages
...essentially a survival of the general principle of liability recognized by the mediaeval common law : 8 " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his... | |
 | Law - 1925 - 1126 pages
...decided in Exchequer Chamber,20 and affirmed on appeal by the House of Lords,1 it was said: (iWe think the true rule of law is, that the person, who, for his own purposes, brings upon his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do 35 Am. St. Вер. 180, 20 LBA premises,... | |
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