 | United States - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1236 pages
...application of the Baconian maxim that it were "infinite for the law to consider the cause of causes," and "contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth...acts by that, without looking to any further degree." Casterline v. Gillen, 182 A pp. Div. 105, 107, 169, NY Supp. 345. The award should be reversed, and... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 808 pages
...Ed.) p. 152: "It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes and their implications one of another; therefore, it contenteth itself with the immediate cause and judgeth the act by that without looking at any further degree." Maxims, Red. 1. The immediateness of the connection... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1922 - 890 pages
...Atl. 653, 565, Gager, J., quotes the maxim of Lord Bacon : "It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another; therefore it contcnteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth the act by that, without looking at any further... | |
 | Ralph Stanley Bauer - Damages - 1923 - 792 pages
...Railroad, 138 NC 42, 50 SE 449; Brewster v. Elizabeth City, 137 NC 392, 49 SE 885. Lord Bacon says : "It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes and their impulsion one on another. Therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts... | |
 | Torts - 1924 - 794 pages
...be committed. THE PROXIMATE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ACT " TN jure non remota causa sed proximo spectator. It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of...impulsions one of another; therefore it contenteth it selfe with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree."1... | |
 | Torts - 1924 - 792 pages
...to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another; therefore it contenteth it selfe with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree."1 The meaning of this maxim of Bacon is not clear. In medieval legal and philosophical Latin... | |
 | Victor Dover - History - 1924 - 414 pages
...(regard the immediate and not the remote cause) was expressed by Francis Bacon in the following words: " It were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsion one of another; therefore it contented itself with the immediate cause." The application... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1066 pages
...steadfast with considerate authors and courts, as follows: "It were Infinite 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 Legal Maxims, *202. In Insurance Company v. Tweed, 7 Wall. 44, 51, 62, 19 L. Ed. 65, an explosion... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1096 pages
...paraphrased by Lord Bacon in his constantly cited gloss: "It were infinite for the law to consider the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another; therefore it ooutpnteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1144 pages
...infinite,' said Lord Bacon, '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.' Proximate cause has been variously defined, and the courts have laid down different tests for determining... | |
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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. 
