 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
 | 1916 - 948 sider
...much discredited. See authorities cited in notes 13 and 14, infra. " Lord Bacon said this long ago: "It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another." MAXIMS, Reg. i. u "Proximate" used of a cause, is used to mean simply a cause which the kw will take... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Holland - 1888 - 448 sider
...negligence. Remote- As to remoteness, it was said by Lord Bacon: ' It were infinite 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... | |
 | 1889 - 1066 sider
...special, tne maxim is: Causa, próxima, non remota, spectatur; or, in the language of Lord liacon: "It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, an.i their impulsion one on another; therefore it eoiiteutetli itself with the immediate cause, ¡md... | |
 | Clark Bell - 1890 - 464 sider
...sheet of ice upon which the plaintiff's horse slipped and » " It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their " impulsions one of...another ; therefore it contenteth itself with the immedi" ate cause, and judffeth of acts by that, without looking to any farther ' degree." — Maximt... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - 1891 - 742 sider
...expression, in the maxim, Causa proxima, non remota, spectatur ; or, in the language of Lord Bacon, " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsion one on another. Therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of... | |
 | George Richards - 1892 - 710 sider
...Bacon'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, we must look at only the immediate and proximate... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1892 - 712 sider
...for the law to consider the cause of causes and their impulsion one on another, therefore coutenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that without looking to any farther degree." The statute in question is penal in its nature and character, and must be strictly... | |
 | Johan Thyrén - 1893 - 182 sider
...förhållande har åsyftats af Baco i de ofta citerade orden: »It were infinite for law to judge the cause of causes and their impulsions one of another; therefore...itself with the immediate cause. and judgeth of acts bg that, without looking to ang further degree». ' Uttrycket immediatc cause får emellertid här... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1894 - 842 sider
..."In Jure non remota causa sed proxima spectatur " is Englished in Bacon's constantly cited gloss: " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...impulsions one of another: therefore it contenteth itself (A) For shortness' sake I shall often une the word "act " alone as equivalent to "act or default."... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1895 - 776 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...cause; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking for any further degree." Judge COOLEY, in Lew.is v. Flint, etc., RW Co., 54 Mich. 55, says: "As between... | |
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