 | 1904 - 428 pages
...against a surgeon for negligent and unskilful treatment, lays it down that every person who enters & learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill, but does not undertake to USB the* highest degree of skill. Lord Campbell, in Purves v. Landell, 12... | |
 | Dieter Giesen - 1988 - 1000 pages
...care in the discharge of his duties37. In the words of an English decision dating back as far as 1838, "every person who enters into a learned profession...a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events you shall gain your case, nor does he undertake... | |
 | Peter Birks - 1996 - 362 pages
...required of doctors and advocates. In a medical negligence case tried in 1838 Tindal CJ directed a jury: 'Every person who enters into a learned profession...a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney. that at all events you shall gain your case, nor does a surgeon undertake... | |
 | Graham Dukes, Maurice Nelson Graham Dukes, Mark Mildred, Barbara Swartz - 1998 - 584 pages
...early as 1838, the English Chief Justice Tindal declared that: "Every person who enters into a leamed profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill"" Similarly, in the modem English medical case of Bolam v. Friem Hospital Manugement Committee?* Mr Justice... | |
 | M W E Morgan, R Warren, Q Querci della Rovere - 1999 - 304 pages
...exercise reasonable skill and care. The classic formulation of the test is found in Lanphier v Phipos3: "Every person who enters into a learned profession...a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events you shall gain your case, nor does a surgeon undertake... | |
 | Hazel Biggs - 2001 - 204 pages
...duty the judgment drew on ancient and informative dicta which decreed that: "every person who enters a profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of...a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake . . . that he will perform a cure; nor does he undertake to use the highest possible degree... | |
 | John Ordronaux - 2006 - 328 pages
...affirmation of the doctrine laid down by Chief Justice Tyndall, 1 and now universally adopted, that " Every person who enters into a learned profession...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 surgeon... | |
 | 1891 - 930 pages
...the time." Tindal, CJ, long since proclaimed in England the following as the verdict of the bench : " Every person who enters into a learned profession...a reasonable degree of care and skill. He does not undertake, if he is a surgeon, that he will perform a cure, nor does he undertake to use the highest... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1892 - 804 pages
...substance of the rule stated in that case as applicable to all professional services, namely, that one who enters into a learned profession undertakes to...exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill, and ordinary good judgment, and engages to use reasonable and ordinary care and diligence in the execution... | |
 | 1884 - 968 pages
...attributable to the want of a reasonable and proper degree of care and skill in the defendant's treatment. Every person who enters into a learned profession...bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of skill. He does not undertake, if he is an attorney, that at all events you shall gain your case, nor... | |
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Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill. 
