 We have no doubt that, in all offences which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may...  A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors - Page 293by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - 1877 - 809 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Owen - 1846 - 494 pages
...1846. In ofl'ences which involve damages to an injured party, for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or settle hie private damage ; but it ij not competent for him to undertake not to prosecute on behalf of the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1880 - 850 pages
...that in all offenses which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may fhink fit." Chit, on Con., 582 ; 6 Man. & Gr., 785 ; 21 Conn., 421. 2. If the evidence for the plaintiffs... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - 1852 - 276 pages
...offences which rangements. ;QVOive damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...but we are not disposed to extend this any further. In the case before us, the offence is an assault, coupled with a riot and the obstruction of a public... | |
 | John William Smith - 1853 - 488 pages
...that in all offences which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain au action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...but we are not disposed to extend this any further." And the current of more recent authorities on this side of the Atlantie, sets strongly against the... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - 1855 - 324 pages
...it is compctent for kirn, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or ssttle his private damage in any way he may think fit. It...but we are not disposed to extend this any further. In the case before us, the offence is an assault coupled with a riot and the obstruction of a public... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 pages
...that, in all offences which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...private damage in any way he may think fit. It is said, indecd, that in the case of an assault he may also undertake not to prosecute on behalf of the public.... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - 1858 - 458 pages
...that in all offences which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...but we are not disposed to extend this any further. In the case before us, the offence is an assault coupled with a riot and the obstruction of a publie... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 840 pages
...aggrieved is also entitled to an action for damages, eg in the case of a nuisance or assault, he may compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may think fit(g). So where, a petition having been presented to the House of Commons against the return of a... | |
 | Edward Parkyns Levinge - 1862 - 844 pages
...that, in all offences which involve damages to an injured party, for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are...but we are not disposed to extend this any further. In the case before us, the offence is an assault coupled with riot and the obstruction of a public... | |
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