Negligence In Law Vol 1

Author : Thomas Beven
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265517925
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Negligence in Law, Vol. 1 written by Thomas Beven and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Negligence in Law, Vol. 1: Being the Second Edition of Principles of the Law of Negligence; General Relations There has also been much new legislation to be embodied, some of it bringing into existence new aspects of law; as the series of Acts which have, for the time being, resulted in the Motor Car Act, 1903. Whether these are properly treated under the heading of Occupa tion of Property (at p. 438) may admit of reasonable dispute, but considerations of convenience led me to deal with them there. I' Many new cases too have had to be grouped under the Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893 (at p. And have required detailed attention. Then there were the topics which were so obviously imperfectly or confusedly dealt with in my last edition, that rewriting the portion relating to them was the only possible satisfactory way of treating them. This remedial process has been applied to the chapter on Corporations and Local Bodies, also to that on the Occupation of Property; while the chapters on Common Carriers by Water and on Collision on Water have been similarly transformed. The whole of Book VII. On Unclassified Relations has been rewritten. Of course, as the subject dealt with in the old and the new is the same, much of the difference that exists is only a difference of expression, and in many cases the old material has been used substantially unaltered where perhaps, even in my partial judgment, it is very capable of improve ment; but with all deductions in these cases, what is now presented in this group is set forth for the first time. There are other chapters, as for example that on Degrees of Negli gence (a subject on which most lawyers are dogmatists), or the following chapter, on Limitations of Liability, which are altered, not so far as to affect their identity, but sufficiently to include a modifying amount of novelty. Indeed the only chapter which is unaltered (except occasionally verbally) is that on the Duty to Answer for One's Own Acts, which is practically an examination of the grounds of the decision of Stanley v. Powell, that is introduced in a recent excellent and authoritative collection as a Leading Case. What a leading case means in this connection I cannot say but in my opinion Stanley v. Powell is not an authority for anything, but was decided on quite wrong grounds; so I have left this chapter untouched. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.