 Whenever 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...  A Digest of the Laws of New Jersey - Page 234by Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, New Jersey - 1868 - 1152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1878 - 596 pages
...the ancient principle, actio personalis moritur cum persona, provides that, ' Whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default . . . such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1216 pages
...the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default on the high seas, the Great Lakes, or any navigable waters of the United States the personal representative... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 886 pages
...death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect or default of any person or corporation, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured, or if she be a married woman, her husband, either separately... | |
 | Maryland - Law - 1879 - 1116 pages
...for acts of agents. "'u 1- Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongsuGoV ful acti neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as i'.w-lB would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to 54'' • 4-" iid* 32^' ma'ntain... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2060 pages
...New Jersey act of assembly of March 3, 1848 (1 Gen. St. NJ p. 1188), are as follows: "Section 1. That whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...and the act. neglect, or default is such as would, 1Г death liad not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...which creates a liability for wrongful death where the act, neglect, or default causing 'such death "is such as would (If death had not ensued) have entitled...an action and recover damages in respect thereof," and provides that the action shall be brought by the personal representative of the deceased, and how... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1038 pages
...Code of West Virginia, which is in the following language : "Whenever the death of a person shall he caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the...neglect or default Is such as would (If death had not ensued) have entitled the party Injured to maintain an action to recover damages In respect thereof... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 2042 pages
...caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of any person or corporation, or of any ship or vessel, and the act, neglect, or default Is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party Injured to maintain an action, or to proceed in rem against said ship... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 2268 pages
...wrongful act, neglect, or default." St. Cal. 1862, p. 447, c, 330. This statute provided: "Section 1. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful art, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default, Is such as would (If death bad not ensued)... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Employers' liability - 1881 - 188 pages
...by his negligence, caused the death of another. That Act provides :— 1. That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...an action and recover damages in respect thereof, (a) then, and in every such case, the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall... | |
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