| Richard Burn - 1845 - 1304 pages
...legacy. (16.) • '*™n *ho enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring Uableformot of :rc* of it a reasonable degree of care and skill: he does not, "monkm. 536 2. Suryeotu. surgeon undertake that he will perform a cure ; nor does the litiu dertake... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1847 - 988 pages
...from his neglect to exercise such skill, (y) " Every person," observes Tindal, CJ, " who enters into a learned profession, undertakes to bring to the exercise...reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events you shall gain your cause, nor does a surgeon impliedly undertake... | |
| 1861 - 442 pages
...undertaken."* Lord Chief-Justice Tindal, in the same spirit, remarks : •" Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable, fair, and competent degree of skill.vt This doctrine of the common law implies on the part of the practitioner... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1862 - 1096 pages
...every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of his profession a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake to use the highest possible degree of skill; for there may be persons who, from having enjoyed a better education and... | |
| 1869 - 852 pages
...unless by special contract or guaranty to that effect. Says Tindal CJ, "Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill. Ho does not undertake if he is an attorney that at all events you shall gain your case, nor does a... | |
| John Ordronaux - 1869 - 342 pages
...laid down by Chief Justice Tyndall,1 and now universally adopted, that " Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill.2 He does not, if he is an attorney, undertake at all events, to gain the cause ; nor does a... | |
| Thomas William Saunders - 1871 - 338 pages
...reasonable and proper degree of care and skill in the defendant's treatment. Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise...reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events you shall gain your cause; nor does a surgeon undertake that... | |
| William Wait - 1872 - 950 pages
...for gross blunders and negligence in the management of the business with which he is intrusted, for " every person who enters a learned profession undertakes...exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill." Lanphier v. Phipos, 8 Carr. & P. 479. The exact degree of skill required is not easily determined;... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - 1873 - 684 pages
...reasonable and proper degree of care and skill in the defendant's treatment. Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable and proper degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals - 1873 - 684 pages
...reasonable and proper degree of care and skill in the defendant's treatment. Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable and proper degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events... | |
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