 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 814 pages
...doctrines of English law on this subject are thus stated by Lord Stowell : "In the first place, collision may happen without blame being imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or any other vis major, in which case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom... | |
 | Robert Morton Hughes - Admiralty - 1920 - 602 pages
...summarized by Lord Stowell in the WOODROPSIMS.1 In it he says: "In the first place, it [collision] may happen without blame being imputable to either party; as, where the loss is occasioned by a storm, or other vis major. In that case the. misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1925 - 546 pages
...and n. i, from which these rules seem to have been accepted in 1305. 3 (1815) 2 Dod. at p. 85 — " there are four possibilities under which an accident of this sort may occur. In the fiist place, it may happen without blame being imputable to either party, as when the loss is occasioned... | |
 | Law - 1928 - 508 pages
...accident.81 In The Woodrop-Sims (1815) Sir William Scott (later Lord Stowell) stated obiter as follows : "There are four possibilities under which an accident...imputable to either party; as where the loss is occasioned by storm or any other vis major: In that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1926 - 546 pages
...and n. r, from which these rules seem to have been accepted in 13o5. * (1815) 2 Dod. at p. 85 — " 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 v1s mat or • 1n that case the misfortune must... | |
 | Insurance law - 1877 - 966 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 594 pages
...principles on which these Rules rest was given by Lord Stowell in the case of The WoodropSims [1815] 19 : " There are four possibilities under which an accident...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... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1917 - 462 pages
...William Scott in The Woodrup Sims.46 That great Jurist said : "In the first place it (a collision) may happen without blame being imputable to either party, as where the loss is occasioned by a storm or other vis major. In that case the misfortune must be borne by the party on whom it happens... | |
 | Susan Hodges - Business & Economics - 1999 - 1013 pages
...and, in his judgment, Sir W Scott expanded on the principle of the apportionment of blame: [p 85] . . .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... | |
 | Thomas A. Street - Law - 1999 - 540 pages
...rules applicable s s ,T±'t in cases of collision as follows: " There are four possibilities doctrine, under which an accident of this sort may occur. In...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... | |
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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... 
