 | Henry Roscoe, James Sands Henderson - 1922 - 812 σελίδες
...(Oakley v. Portsmouth, <fc., Steam Packet Co., 11 Ex. 623; 25 LJ Ex. 101, per Martin, В.), which " could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning, and tempests " {Forward v. Pittard, 1 TR 33, and which " could not have been prevented by any amount of foresight... | |
 | Hugh Evander Willis - 1923 - 1036 σελίδες
...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 man, as storms, lightning, and tempests. If an armed force come to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable ; and a reason is given in the... | |
 | Charles Kellogg Burdick - 1924 - 772 σελίδες
...law presumes against the carrier, unless he shews it was done by the King's enemies or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning, and tempests. If an armed force come to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable : and a reason is given in the... | |
 | Young Berryman Smith, Noel Thomas Dowling - 1926 - 1310 σελίδες
...law presumes against the carrier unless he shews it was done by the King's enemies or by such act as could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning, and tempests. If an armed force come to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable: and a reason is given in the... | |
 | 1890 - 572 σελίδες
...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 of man, as storms, lightning, and tempests. If an armed force came to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable; and a reason is given in the... | |
 | Frederick Green - 1927 - 896 σελίδες
...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 man, as storms, lightning, and tempests. If an armed force come to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable ; and a reason is given in the... | |
 | 1916 - 512 σελίδες
...precaution of the carrier could prevent; but the phrase, 'act of God' denotes natural accidents that could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning and tempest. The expression excludes all human agency." A Mixed Question of Law and Fact: "The 'act of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1910 - 710 σελίδες
...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 man, as storms, lightning and tempest." "If an armed force comes to rob the carrier of the goods, he is liable; and the true reason... | |
 | Colin Barrett - 2003 - 404 σελίδες
...law presumes against the carrier unless he shows [the loss or damage] was done by. . . such act as could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning and tempests."33 This follows the standard legal definition of an act of God as "[a]n overwhelming, unpreventable... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1863 - 590 σελίδες
...introduced a somewhat different view ; holding that, to be an act of God, it must be such a one " as could not happen by the intervention of man, as storms, lightning, and tempests." He calls this a liability independent of the contract, and says it appears in all the cases for the... | |
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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... 
