Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, and House of Lords, 3. köide

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T. & T. Clark, 1898

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Page 200 - That is found wandering and not having any Home or settled Place of Abode, or proper Guardianship, or visible Means of Subsistence ; That is found destitute, either being an Orphan or having a surviving Parent who is undergoing Penal Servitude or Imprisonment ; That frequents the Company of reputed Thieves.
Page 50 - Act provides that no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable to any person whatever for any loss or damage occasioned by the fault or incapacity of any qualified pilot acting in charge of such ship within any district where the employment of a pilot is compulsory by law.
Page 373 - And as to my worldly estate and all the property, real personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease...
Page 91 - Every such company as aforesaid shall be liable for the loss of or for any injury done to any horses, cattle, or other animals, or to any articles, goods, or things, in the receiving, forwarding, or delivering thereof, occasioned by the neglect or default of such company or its servants...
Page 304 - I may term the natural user of that land there had been any accumulation of water, either on the surface or underground, and if by the operation of the laws of nature that accumulation of water had passed off into the close occupied by the plaintiff, the plaintiff could not have complained that that result had taken place.
Page 304 - I may term a non-natural use, for the purpose of introducing into the close that which in its natural condition was not in or upon it, for the purpose of introducing water either above or below ground in quantities and in a manner not the result of any work or operation on or under the land; and if in consequence of their doing so, or in consequence of any imperfection in the mode of their doing so, the water came to escape and to pass off into the close of the plaintiff, then it appears to me that...
Page 115 - C. D., his executors, administrators or assigns ; for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with my seal.
Page 477 - If a person brings, or accumulates, on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbor, he does so at his peril. If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage.
Page 489 - Company proxies are allowed) at any general meeting, of which notice specifying the intention to propose such resolution has been duly given...
Page 200 - Begging, *o. any child apparently under the age of fourteen years that comes within any of the following descriptions, namely, — 1. That is found begging or receiving alms (whether actually or under the pretext of selling or offering for sale anything) or being in any street or public place for the purpose of so begging or receiving alms : 2.

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