 | Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 1190 pages
...in reference to the maxim " In jure., non remain causa sed próxima spectaiur," wrote as follows: " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." There is no doubt that that is the law, but the difficulty is how to apply it. I rather think here... | |
 | Thomas Henry James - Maritime law - 1866 - 164 pages
...policy, it is a leading principle that the proximate, and not the remote cause is to be looked to. ("It were infinite for the law to judge the causes...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Bacon's Maxims, ]..) The words "perils of the sea " apply only to losses of which the operative cause... | |
 | Sir Joseph Arnould - Average (Maritime law) - 1866 - 592 pages
...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...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." The general maxim thus explained, which is not inapplicable to the acts of voluntary agents, is of... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 634 pages
...stated : " It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one upon another; therefore, it contenteth itself with the...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Bac. Max. Reg., 1. The case is not analogous to those where, by some public wrong, the plaintiff claims... | |
 | Sir Joseph Arnould - Average (Maritime law) - 1866 - 598 pages
...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...it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judge th of acts by that, without looking to any further degree." The general maxim thus explained,... | |
 | Charles John Bunyon - Fire insurance - 1867 - 316 pages
..." offend against a rule of Lord Bacon, who says, — ' It were " ' infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and " ' their impulsions one...by " ' that, without looking to any further degree ' (Bac. Max. " Reg. 1). If that were not so, and a ship was in the " neighbourhood of Etna or Vesuvius... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 576 pages
...Judges who was, I hear, also a great philosopher has said — " It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another...therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause," Bac. IV. 1. On principle, therefore, and on authority, English and Roman, I take it to be abundantly... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...And he shows the weighty reasons of it also. "It were infinite," he says, " for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of...acts- by that without looking to any further degree." -The authorities, we apprehend, do but illustrate the maxim. In Lii'ie v. Janson,* a ship was insured... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 728 pages
...infinite,' says Lord Bacon, 'for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsion one on another. Therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate...acts by that, without looking to any further degree.' Now if the mere delay which would undoubtedly increase the damage to these perishable articles when... | |
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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. 
