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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 the said law. "
The Pacific Reporter - Page 211
1913
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Harvard Law Review, Volume 27

Electronic journals - 1914 - 812 pages
...reaching this result Lord Campbell quoted without qualification the statement of Comyns's Digest that "in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law," as if it meant that in all cases where one whom a criminal statute was intended to benefit is harmed...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 202

Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1366 pages
...Appeals rejected the argument just referred to, and said: "The rule applies that when a statute commands or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person he...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage or for a wrong done to him contrary to its terms." Paule.v v. Steam Gauge, etc.. Co., supra, following Willey...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 20

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1058 pages
...such a liability. It is argued that the liability is created by force of the rule that " where the statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." This rule undoubtedly embodies a sound proposition of law, and has been frequently approved and enforced...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 13

Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 930 pages
...landlord; Earl, ./. , remarking; "In Comyn's Digest, Action upon Statute (F), is laid down as the rule that 'in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done to him contrarv to the said law.'" Iii the Law of Torts, it is said by the distinguished author: "If the duty...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 20

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1060 pages
...such a liability. It is argued that the liability is created by force of the rule that " where the statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit...recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the eaid law." This rule undoubtedly embodies a sound proposition of law, and has been frequently approved...
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Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of ..., Volume 248

Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 896 pages
...their protection, and 248 Mo.— 24 Ward v. Dry Goods Co. the rule applies that when a statute commands or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person,...statute for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for a wrong done to him contrary to its terms." The case of Brannock v. Elmore, 114 Mo. 55, was for negligence...
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A Treatise on the Construction and Effect of Statute Law: With Appendices ...

Henry Hardcastle - Law - 1892 - 748 pages
...Jud. C'omrn. in Bathurst (Borough of) v. Macpherson (1879), 4 App. Cae. 268. Remedy by Action. 253 every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Upon these authorities it was stated in Couch v. Steel (1854), 23 LJQB 125, as a broad general proposition,...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Courts of the State of ..., Volume 47

Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 720 pages
...duty. In Sedgwick on Statutory and Constitutional Law, p. 92, it is said: " And the general rule that in every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...recompense of a wrong done to him contrary to the law in question, is declared by the text writers of our jurisprudence. If a new right is created by...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 36

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1070 pages
...against any injury to such employees." In 1 Comyn's Digest, "Action upon Statute, F," it is said: " In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of the wrong done to him contrary to said law." And in O'Donnell v. Providence etc. RR Co., 6 R. «L 211,...
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Ruling Cases, Volume 1

Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...statute. See 2udlnst. 486. And in Com. Dig. Act-ion- upon Statute (F) it is laid down that, ' in ever}' case where a statute enacts, or prohibits a thing...for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the recompence of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law.' Therefore the simple enactment requiring...
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