 | Albert Venn Dicey, John Henry Truman - Joinder of parties - 1879 - 586 pages
...or liable for the remote or indirect results of his acts. " 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 at any further degree." (a) A person, that is to say, is responsible only for the natural and proximate... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 888 pages
...said by Lord BACON, "It were infinite for the law to consider the cause of causes, and their impulsion one of another; therefore it contenteth itself with...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Bacon's Maxims, Reg. 1 ; Broom's Legal Maxims, 165. The rule is of frequent recognition in the decisions... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 1036 pages
...remota causa, sed proximo, spectatur. " 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." Brown's Leg. Max. 217. The agreed facts will enable us, we think, to answer the enquiry without difficulty.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 846 pages
...Legal Maxims (under the heading In jure non remota causa sed proximo, spectatur), where he says, " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate canse and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Construing the words in... | |
 | Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock - Maritime law - 1881 - 956 pages
...Modiyliani, 2 TR 30. (») In jure nan remota eaiaa trd proximo tpeetatur. Bacon's Max. I, where it is said, " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...impulsions one of another; therefore it contenteth itselfe with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree."... | |
 | Insurance law - 1881 - 972 pages
...It seems to me that the first maxim of Lord Bacon is directly in point, in which [it is said that " it were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...and their impulsions one of another ; therefore, it coutenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that without looking to any further... | |
 | Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock - Maritime law - 1881 - 968 pages
...to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another ; therefore it contenteth itselfe with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree." See Dudgeon v. 1'embroke, 2 App. Cas. 284 : Anderson v. Morlet, LR, 10 CP 699 ; 1 App. Cas. 713 ; Met/man... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Employers' liability - 1881 - 188 pages
...spectatur." Lord Bacon.in his maxims, thus explains:—" It were infinite for the law to consider the causes and their impulsions one of another; therefore...it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgetb. of acts by that without looking for any further degree. (e) . 2) Served by post by a registered... | |
 | Charles Crawley - Accident insurance - 1882 - 390 pages
...J., on the general ground that Lord Bacon's maxim applied: " It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes and their impulsions one of another;...it contenteth itself with the immediate cause;" and that whether disease contributed directly or indirectly to the subsequent accident was wholly immaterial.... | |
 | Edmund B. Ivatts - Carriers - 1883 - 1168 pages
...spectatur, and I.iord Bacon says — ' It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of action and their impulsions one of another, therefore it...contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of facts by that, without looking to any further degree ' (Bac. Max. Reg., 1 ). I think it clear that... | |
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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. 
