 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
 | John Worth Edmonds - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 500 pages
...therefor. THIS was an action brought pursuant to a statute passed December 13, 1847, which enacted that whenever the death of a person shall be caused by...an action, and recover damages in respect thereof, the person or corporation which would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 890 pages
...le wood v. Mayor. The condition upon which the statutory liability depends is declared to be, " that the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death...injured to maintain an action and recover damages," etc. This language is accurate if the act was intended to apply to the '.•ase of a party, who having... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell - Gt. Brit. Laws, Statutes, etc - 1883 - 792 pages
...compensating the Familiei of Persons killed by Accident*." Section 1 enacts " That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect,...the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if deatli had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...288, 321. See also now the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, 43 & 44 Viet c. 42, pott, pp. 378-380. 374 neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | Railroad law - 1916 - 478 pages
...case is, indeed, within the express words of the statute — the death of Trawford having been ' ' caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, ' ' and the act, neglect or default being such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 726 pages
...that rule. * * * The condition upon which this statutory liability depends is declared to be ' that the act, neglect, or default, is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to mainOpinion. tain an action and recover damages', etc. *... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - Internal revenue - 1975 - 804 pages
...Statutes relating to death by wrongful act provide: Sec. 12-611. Liability When death of a person is Internal Revenue Service( _specifically exempted...disclosure by statute; (4) trade secrets and commerci ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1969 - 1082 pages
...erected primarily as navigational aids, and the 4 41 Stat. 537, 46 USC §§ 761-768. 46 USC § 761 reads: "Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia,... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1969 - 184 pages
...Chapter 21, Title 46 USC, entitled Death on the High Seas by Wrongful Act, provides in pertinent part: ' Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, .... the personal representative... | |
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