Death by Wrongful Act: A Treatise on the Law Peculiar to Actions for Injuries Resulting in Death, Including the Text of the Statutes and an Analytical Table of Their Provisions |
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Page 484 - Be it therefore enacted . . . that whensoever 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...
Page 6 - ... provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate...
Page 117 - Territory and another, or between any such Territory or territories and any State or states or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or states or foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal.
Page 119 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...
Page 3 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 25 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Page 119 - ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Death by Wrongful Act: A Treatise on the Law Peculiar to Actions for Injuries Resulting in Death, Including the Text of the Statutes and an Analytical Table of Their Provisions Legal classics library |
| Author | Francis Buchanan Tiffany |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Vernon Law Book Company, 1913 |
| Length | 646 pages |
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