 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1981 - 996 pages
...doctrine of the common law expressed in 1 Com. Dig., tit. Action upon Statute (F), in these words: 'So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits...the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law.' (Per Holt, CJ, Anon., 6 Mod. 26, 27.) This is but an application of the maxim, Ubi jus... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1982 - 1050 pages
...3 El. & Bl. 402, 118 Eng. Rep. 1193 (1854). In Comyns' Digest, at 442, the rule was broadly stated: "So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits...for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." 4 As Justice Frankfurter stated in dissent... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - Law - 1824 - 840 pages
...he may have an action upon the statute. 2 Inst. 486. ¡ Vide Jones r. Ëstis, 2 Johns. Rep. 379. } So, in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits...for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law. Per Holt, Mod. Ca. 26, 7. An action by... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 812 pages
...by statute. (See 2 Inst. 486). And in Com. Dig., " Action upon Statute," F., it is laid down, that "in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore the simple enactment, requiring the supply of medicines, would have entitled... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 688 pages
...statute — see 2 Inst. 486; and in Com. Dig. tit. "Action upon Statute," F, it is laid down that " in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore, the simple enactment requiring the supply of medicines would have entitled... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1858 - 804 pages
...393; 5 Id. 175. 3. Case lies where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person. In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...upon the same statute for the thing enacted for his ad vantage or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said laffCom. Dig. Action upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 452 pages
...by statute: see 2nd Inst. p. 486, and in Com. Dig. Tit. Action upon Statute. F, it is laid down that 'in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law.'" The second count (which was the one then in question), contained no allegation in terms... | |
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So in every case, where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person, he shall have a remedy upon the same statute for the thing enacted for his advantage or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to said law. 
