 IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another: therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree.  Literary and professional works - Side 189af Francis Bacon - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edmund B. Ivatts - 1883 - 1168 sider
...spectatur, and I.iord Bacon says — ' It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of action and their impulsions one of another, therefore it...contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of facts by that, without looking to any further degree ' (Bac. Max. Reg., 1 ). I think it clear that... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, James Bolesworth Bradwell - 1883 - 734 sider
...Lord Bacon says: " It were infinite for the law to consider the cause of causes, their impulse on one another, therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause and judgeth of acts of that kind without looking to any further degree." Bacon's Maxims, Broom's Legal Maxims, 165. The... | |
 | James Kent - 1884 - 730 sider
...Law, regula 1) gives this sound reason for the maxim, that "it were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause." The French codes and jurists, in a case of mere accident by collision, without the fault of either... | |
 | 1893 - 1176 sider
...Negligence (section 73) is this quotation from Lord Bacon: "It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another....cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking for any further degree. " Judge Cooley, in Lewis v. Railway Co., 54 Mich. 55, 19 N. VV. Rep. 744, says... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - 1885 - 610 sider
...commenting on the maxim Injure non remota causa, sed proxima spectalur, may also here be referred to. " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...and their impulsions one of another ; therefore it eontentoth itself with the immediate cause ; and judgeth of acts by that, •without looking to any... | |
 | 1893 - 1176 sider
...remota causa, sed próxima specttitur." Lord Bacon says: "It were infinite for the law to judge tho causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another....contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and Judgeth of actH by that, without looking to any further degree.1' Everett v. London Assurance, 11) CB (NS) 12(¡.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Holland - 1886 - 402 sider
...negligence. As to remoteness, it was said by Lord Bacon : ' It were Remoteinfinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth the acts by that, without looking at any further degree V The wrong and the damage must be, it has... | |
 | 1886 - 968 sider
...BACOX'S language in his Maxims of the Law, Reg. 1, runs thus : ' It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...Therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause.' Therefore I say, according to the true principle of law, I must look at only the immediate and proximate... | |
 | Sir Joseph Arnould - 1887 - 638 sider
...immediate, producing cause of the loss. " It were infinite," says Lord Bacon, "for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of 1 Stone v. Marine Ins. Co. Ocean, Limited, of Gothenburg, 1 Ex. Div. 81, 85. acts by that, without... | |
 | 1897 - 1244 sider
...indicated in Bacon's paraphrase of the maxim quoted above: "It were infinite fo» the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...It contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and jmlgeth of acts by that, without looking for any further degree." But it seems to us that as applied... | |
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