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| Lyman P. Wilson - Torts - 1928 - 1130 pages
...law is, I think, correctly stated in Addison on Torts (8th Ed.) p. 104, referring to Comyn's Digest: 'In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits...remedy upon the same statute for the thing enacted for his_advantage, or for_r£fc. ompense for the thing done to~him Contrary to the said law._ . . . Accordingly... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1930 - 704 pages
...Digest, Action upon Statute, F, it is said, ' In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a th«ig for the benefit of a person, he shall have a remedy...enacted for his advantage, or for the recompense of the wrong done to him contrary to said Jaw,' confining the remedy to such things as are enacted for... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 584 pages
...121, said that, Taylor, J. igio DOYLE CNR Co. xii.] [VOL Taylor, J. 1918 DOYLE CNR, Co. down that, "in every case, where a statute enacts, or prohibits...his advantage, or for the recompense of a wrong done by him contrary to the said law. Couch v. Steel, supra, has been adversely criticized and undoubtedly... | |
| Employers' liability - 1912 - 1074 pages
...law is, I Ihink, correctly stated in Addison on Torts (8th ed.) p. 104, referring to Comyn's Digest: "In every case where a statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit of a person, lie shall have a remedy upon the same statute for the thing enacted lor his advantage, or for the recompense... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 872 pages
...relied on to create a duty, the general rule has been thus declared by one of the older 2. writers: "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." 1 Comyn's Digest, Action Upon Statute, *441 (F). Indiana,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1020 pages
...stated in Comyn's Digest, under the head of Action Upon Statute (F), at page 453, is to the point : for the thing enacted for his advantage, or for the...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." The same principle of law, in somewhat different language but of like meaning, is laid down in Bacon's... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1246 pages
...times. /Thus, in Com. Dig., "Action upon Statute" (F), it is laid down that, "In every case where the statute enacts or prohibits a thing for the benefit...person, he shall have a remedy upon the same statute," etc. See, also, Cooley, Torts, pp. 650-658. A leading English case Is Couch v. Steel (18&1) 3 El. &... | |
| New York (State) - Law - 1917 - 400 pages
...such factories, and intended for their protection, and 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." Pauley v. Steam-Gauge, etc., Co., (1892) 131 NY 90, 29... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 1018 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...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Therefore, the simple enactment requiring the supply of medicines would have entitled the plaintiff... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 1028 pages
...down as follows in Comyn's Digest, " Action on Statute," F. upon the authority of Lord Holt — " So in every case, where a statute enacts or prohibits...of a wrong done to him contrary to the said law." Here the plaintiff, as a purchaser, was one of the persons for whose benefit the Act was enacted, and... | |
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