Dictionary, accident is defined as "an event which under the circumstances, is unusual and unexpected by the person to whom it happens. The happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused; or the happening... Pittsburgh Legal Journal - Página 211898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hugh Mortimer Spalding - 1903 - 718 páginas
...is an unusual effect from a known cause, and therefore not expected. It is the happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused, as the burning of a house from kindling a lire for domestic purposes; or the happening of an event... | |
| Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1905 - 1368 páginas
...circumstances, is unusual and unexpected by the person to whom it happens ; the happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person...caused ; or the happening of an event without any human agency."422 Mr. Biddie's definition has been approved where he says : "An injury may be said objectively... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - 1906 - 892 páginas
...place in question, was accidentally discharged. An accident may be defined to be an event happening without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused. If you find from all the facts and circumstances in evidence before you that the pistol in question... | |
| Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 870 páginas
...the person to whom it happens. It is the happening of an event without the concurrence of the wi'.l of the person by whose agency it was caused, or the happening of an event without any human agency. If a house should be burned in consequence of a fire made for the purpose of cooking, or warming the... | |
| John Bouvier, Francis Rawle - 1914 - 1210 páginas
...L. & Рас, Ry. Co. v. Locke, 112 Ind. 404, 14 NE 391, 2 Am. St Rep. 193. The happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person...the happening of an event without any human agency. The burning of a house in consequence of a fire made for the ordinary purposes of cooking or wanning... | |
| 1916 - 1350 páginas
...circumstances, is unusual and unexpected by the person to whom it happens. The happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person...the happening of an event without any human agency. ' The courts have frequently defined accident, and an examination of the authorities indicates but... | |
| 1917 - 1178 páginas
...circumstances, is unusual and unexpected to the person to whom it happened. The happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person...the happening of an event without any human agency. And you are instructed that if such au accident occurred to the said William J. Hatfield, and if you... | |
| Frederick Hampden Bacon - 1917 - 980 páginas
...Deflnition of Accident. — The Century Dictionary defines an accident to be " an event happening without a concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused. It differs from mistake in that the latter always supposes the operation of the will of the agent in... | |
| 1918 - 832 páginas
...circumstances is unusual and unexpected by the person to whom it happens. It is the happening of an event without the concurrence of the will of the person...the happening of an event without any human agency. If a house should be burned in consequence of a fire made for the purpose of cooking, or warming the... | |
| 1918 - 1214 páginas
...unexpected result attending the performance of a usual or necessary act," or was an "event happening without the concurrence of the will of the person by whose agency it was caused," or if it was "caused or produced without design," tt falls directly within the letter and spirit of the... | |
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