 ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed." In later cases it has been laid down that an extrinsic cause of injury is not essential ; compensation is due where injury results from...  The Scots Law Times - Page 2811927Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 930 pages
..." I come, therefore, to the conclusion that the expression ' accident ' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...untoward event which is not expected or designed." Had the passage ended with the words "popular and ordinary sense," there might be some difficulty,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 388 pages
...feels bound to accept. He says : " What, then, is an ' accident' 1 It has been defined in this House as 'an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed.' All the Lords who took part in the decision of Ftnton v. Thmiey agreed in substance with this definition... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 820 pages
...his work. Lord Macnaghten's description of "accident"—namely, that it "is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...an untoward event which is not expected or designed "—is not, in my opinion, affected by that passage. In the same way Lord Lindley says that " an accident... | |
 | Workers' compensation - 1905 - 208 pages
...Act." I come, therefore, to the conclusion that the expression "accident" is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word, as denoting an unlooked-for...untoward event which is not expected or designed. It would serve no useful purpose to review the English cases on the subject. The decisions before Hensey... | |
 | Australia. High Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 806 pages
...— " I come, therefore, to the conclusion that the expression 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...untoward event which is not expected or designed." Any " physiological injury," to use Lord AfLareris expression in Stewart v. Wilsons and Clyde Cml Co.... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 712 pages
...accident. "The word 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense (if the word, as denoting unlooked-for mishap, or an untoward event which is not expected or designed,"^?- Lord Macnaghten; or as meaning " Any unexjjected personal injury resulting to the workman in the course... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell - Gt. Brit. Laws, Statutes, etc - 1908 - 994 pages
...(1900), 83 LT (NS) 471, "accident" in this Act must be construed in its " popular and ordinary sense .... as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed" : per Lord Macnaghten, /. c. at p. 448. In Fenton'» Case a perfectly healthy man ruptured himself... | |
 | Workers' compensation - 1909 - 168 pages
...said: "I come therefore to the conclusion that the expression ' accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...untoward event which is not expected or designed." It appears, then, that an accident must be a mishap from which the element of haphazard has been eliminated,... | |
 | Alfred Henry Ruegg - Employers' liability - 1910 - 1166 pages
...448), " I come, therefore, to the conclusion that the expression ' accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...untoward event which is not expected or designed. . . . The decisions before (qn. since) Hrnsey v. Whitr are curiously conflicting. It would seem almost... | |
 | F. L. Firminger - Employers' liability - 1910 - 616 pages
...the old Act is brought within the scope of the present Act. " ' Accident ' is used in the popular and ordinary " sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for...mishap "or an untoward event which is not expected er "designed." (Per LOED MACNAGHTEN, Fenton v. Thorley & Co., Ltd. [1903], AC, 443 ; 72 LJ, KB, 787... | |
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