Legal medicine. v. 2, 1882, Volume 2W. Wood, 1882 |
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Page 222 - So trifling a circumstance as a change of place, recommended by one as being warmer and more comfortable, and refused by the other from a dread of motion, frequently called forth fretful expressions which were no sooner uttered than atoned for, to be repeated perhaps in the course of a few minutes.
Page 9 - At the same time we think we may safely assume that, in the term " accident" as so used, some violence, casualty, or vis major, is necessarily involved. We cannot think disease produced by the action of a known cause can be considered as accidental. Thus disease or death engendered by exposure to heat, cold, damp, the vicissitudes of climate, or atmospheric influences, cannot, we think, properly be said to be accidental; unless...
Page 22 - When a person goes abroad and has not been heard of for a long time, the presumption of the continuance of life ceases at the expiration of seven years from the period at which he was last heard of.
Page 43 - ... any injury caused by or arising from natural disease or weakness, or exhaustion consequent upon disease .... or to any death arising from disease, although such death may have been accelerated by accident.
Page 11 - ... no insurance shall be made by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, on the life or lives of any person or persons, or on any event or events whatsoever...
Page 45 - Evidence (sec. 157), says that, "although a person who has not been heard of for seven years is presumed to be dead, the law raises no presumption as to the time of his death...
Page 153 - explosive " in this Act — (1.) Means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect ; and (2.) Includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation...
Page 185 - ... she was absent till next morning when she awoke, soon after which she put on her clothes, and going down into the kitchen, found her mother stretched out on the right side, with her head near the grate ; the body extended on the hearth, with the legs on the floor, which was of deal, having the appearance of a log of wood, consumed by a fire without apparent flame.
Page 33 - ... and a fire had destroyed goods belonging to his consignors as well as his own goods ; and it was held that the plaintiff had an insurable interest in the goods held on commission for his consignors to their full value, and might recover the whole amount under an averment...
Page 35 - Such a warranty can never mean that a man has not the seeds of disorder. We are all born with the seeds of mortality in us. A man subject to the gout is a life capable of being insured, if he has no sickness at the time to make it an unequal contract