 | Charles Abbott (Baron Tenterden) - Maritime law - 1867 - 1178 pages
...the Woodrop (k), Lord Stowell lays it down, that there are four possibilities under which collision may occur. " In the first place, it may happen without...imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major. In that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it... | |
 | David Roberts - Admiralty - 1869 - 764 pages
...itself has been as much cited in collision cases as perhaps any other known adjudication. He says: "There are four possibilities under which an accident...imputable to either party; as where the loss is occasioned by a storm, or any other vis major. In that case, the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom... | |
 | Collisions at sea - 1869 - 262 pages
...the late Lord Stowell, then the very learned Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Great Britain. "There are four possibilities under which an accident...without blame being imputable to either party, as when the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis •major; and in that case, the misfortune... | |
 | William Atkinson Oliver - Maritime law - 1869 - 222 pages
...said by Lord Stowell that there are four possibilities under which a collision may occur : — isf. It may happen without blame being imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm, &c, or by inevitable accident which ordinary skill and caution could not have prevented.... | |
 | J. Perry Godfrey - Marine insurance - 1870 - 72 pages
...or '•'•Running-down Clause." Collisions may happen, as Lord Stowell observes, in of four ways, " in the first place, it may happen without blame being...imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or other vis major, and in that case the loss must be borne by those on whom it happens... | |
 | John Erskine - Law - 1870 - 730 pages
...Woodrop, 2 Dodson Adm., 85. There are four possibilities under which a loss of this kind may occur. " 1. It may happen without blame being imputable to either party; as where a loss by collision is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major; in that case the misfortune must... | |
 | Henry Cadogan Rothery - Collisions at sea - 1873 - 40 pages
...Dodson's Admiralty Reports, p. 85, in speaking of the way in which a collision may happen, says:— " In the first place, it may happen without blame being...imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major; in that case, the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom... | |
 | Alexander Charles Boyd - Maritime law - 1876 - 704 pages
...caused or contributed to the disaster (a). " There are four possibilities," said Lord Stowell (i), " under which an accident of this sort may occur. In...to either party ; as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vi-s major. In that case the misfortune mnst be borne by the party on whom... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 558 pages
...disasters, he remarked to the effect, that there were four possibilities under which an accident of the kind may occur. In the first place, it may happen without...to either party ; as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major. In that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 490 pages
...disasters, he remarked to the effect that there were four possibilities under which an accident of the kind may occur. In the first place, it may happen without blame being impotable to either party ; as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major. In that... | |
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There are four possibilities under which an accident of this sort may occur. In the first place, it may happen without blame being imputable to either party ; as where the loss is occasioned by a storm, or any other vis major : In that case, the misfortune... 
