But to prevent litigation, collusion, and the necessity of going into circumstances impossible to be unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows it was done by the King's enemies or by such act as could not happen by the intervention... Term Reports in the Court of King's Bench - Σελίδα 33των Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - 1817Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 σελίδες
...except by the act of God, or the king's enemies. Now what is the act of God ? I consider it to mean something in opposition to the act of man : for every...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows it was done by the king's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of... | |
| Henry Jeremy - 1815 - 198 σελίδες
...receives the goods into his custody, which the law does not excuse ; and to prevent collusive litigation, and the necessity of going into circumstances impossible to be unravelled, the law always presumes against the carrier, unless he shows the injury to have been done by the King's enemies,... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1822 - 1008 σελίδες
...except by the act of God or the king's enemies; now, what is the act of God? I consider it to mean something in opposition to the act of man ; for, every...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows it was done by the king's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of... | |
| Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 σελίδες
...except by the act of God, or the King's enemies. Now what is the act of God ? I consider it to mean something in opposition to the act of man: for every...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows that it was done by the King's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the intervention... | |
| William Jones - 1828 - 328 σελίδες
...knowledge. But to prevent ''litigation, collusion, and the necessity of going into circumstan" ces impossible to be unravelled, the law presumes against the " carrier, unless he shows it was done by the King's enemies, or "by such act as could not happen by the intervention of... | |
| William Grimshaw - 1831 - 354 σελίδες
...receives the goods into his custody, which the law does not excuse ; and, to prevent collusive litigation, and the necessity of going into circumstances impossible to be unravelled, the law always presumes against the carrier, unless he shows the injury to have beerl done by the enemies of... | |
| John Simcoe Saunders - 1831 - 598 σελίδες
...every thing is a negligence which the law does not excuse ; and, that to prevent collusive litigation, and the necessity of going into circumstances impossible to be unravelled, the law always presumes *against the carrier, unless he [*331] shows that he is excepted from the liability... | |
| David Steel - 1832 - 1188 σελίδες
...except by the act of God, or the king's enemies: now, what is the act of God ? I consider it to mean something in opposition to the act of man ; for every...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows it was done by the king's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1841 - 488 σελίδες
...of the subject is sanctioned by what fell from Lord Mansfield in the case of Forward v. Pittard : " To prevent litigation, collusion, and the necessity...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows it was done by the king's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of... | |
| 1842 - 536 σελίδες
...force of robbers), and not by the act of God, as storm, lightning, &c. or the king's enemies. 1 For to prevent litigation, collusion, and the necessity...unravelled, the law presumes against the carrier, unless he shows the loss was occasioned by act of the king's enemies, or by such act as could not happen by the... | |
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