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The Law of Contracts - Page 601
by Theophilus Parsons - 1857
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The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the ...

Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 932 pages
...Wil-son v. Brett (14), Rolfe, B. said, " I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence ; that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet" [WILLES, J. — In Beal v. the South Devon Railway Company (15), a definition of "gross negligence"...
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A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers, by Land and by Water

Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...same Court, Rolfe, B., remarks, — " I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet." 3 , § 24. If the subject-matter of the bailment consists of living animals, such as oxen, horses,...
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A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers, by Land and by Water

Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Business & Economics - 1851 - 836 pages
...same Court, Rolfe, B., remarks, — " I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet." 2 § 24. If the subject-matter of the bailment consists of living animals, such as oxen, horses, or...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 14

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 672 pages
...& Wels. 113,) Baron Rolfe observes, " that he could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence ; that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet." And see Hare and Wallace's American note, p. 242, with the American cases there cited, and which are...
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A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law, Volume 1

John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 1006 pages
...to possess; and ROLFE, В., observes that he could see no difference between négligence and gross negligence, — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet. See also the remarks of PARKE, В., in Wyld v. Pickford, 8 Id. 443, 461, 462, and of LordUENMAN, CJ,...
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Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and ...

Joseph Story - Bailments - 1856 - 728 pages
...Meeson & Welsby, 113, Baron IIolfe declared he could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence ; that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet. And in another case, — Hinton v. Dibbin, 2 Queen's Bench, 650, — Lord Denman said: "It may well...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's ..., Volume 6

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis, Colin Blackburn Baron Blackburn, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber - Great Britain - 1857 - 1184 pages
...in Wilson v. Brett (d) Rolfs B. said that he " could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing with the addition of a vituperative epithet." And this seems to be confirmed by the language of the Court in Austin v. Tlie Mancliester, §-e. Railway...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 28

Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 904 pages
...pertinent remarks upon this subject. " I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence, that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet," And in Austin v. The Manchester RR 11 Eng. L. & Eq. 513, Cresswell, J. refers to the language of Lord...
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The Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 1

Law - 1857 - 600 pages
...pertinent remarks upon this subject. " I said I could see no difference between negligence and grots negligence, that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet." And in Austin r. The Manchester RR 11 Eng. L. & Eq. 513, Cresswell, J., refers to the language of Lord...
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Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee ..., Volume 5

Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund F. Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 604 pages
...v. Brett (b), objected to it, saying that he " could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence ; that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet." And this critical observation has been since approved of by other eminent Judges. Of course, if intended...
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