The Employers' Liability Act, 1880, and the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897 & 1900: With the Statutes Relating to and Cases Decided on These Acts in England, Scotland, and Ireland; the Rules of Procedure Thereunder, and Forms |
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Page 149 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence, but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 428 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 358 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Page 472 - All persons may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative...
Page 446 - When the injury was caused by the personal negligence or wilful act of the employer, or of some person for whose act or default the employer is responsible, nothing in this act shall affect any civil liability of the employer, but in that case the workman may, at his option, either claim compensation under this act or take...
Page 122 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any person entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer nor engaged in his work.
Page 5 - Negligence,' has been defined to be 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something, which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 423 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform, and did conform...
Page 196 - Also any premises wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain...
Page 431 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death, to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...