 | Jacob Brooks Herold - 1912 - 404 pages
...21 (48 Sou. 570). Art. 2315. As amended by Act 120 of 1908, p. 178, this article reads as follows : Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it. The right of this action shall survive in case of death in favor of the children or widow of the deceased,... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - 1913 - 734 pages
...or brothers or sisters, as the case may be." Originally this section merely contained the provision that every act whatever of man that causes damage...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it, and no action was maintainable to recover damages for injuries resulting in death.12 In 1855 the section... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1913 - 724 pages
...Louisiana, Sportono v. Fourlchon, 40 La. Ann. 424, 4 So. 71 (1888); Civil Code, Art. 2316, declares: "Every act whatever of man, that causes damage to another, obliges him, by whose fault it happens, to repair It." Hence, calling a white man a negro in that State is actionable. Sportono v.... | |
 | Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - 1913 - 798 pages
...(1890). LOUISIANA — CIVIL CODE, 1888. ART. 2315. " Every act whatever of man that causes damages to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it; the right of this action shall survive in case of death in favor of the minor children and widow of... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1915 - 844 pages
...broke loose, attacked and wounded Mr. Vredenburg, who died of the wounds inflicted. The Code declares, "that every act whatever of man that causes damage...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it." That a person is responsible for the damage resulting from "his negligence or imprudence." That he... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools. Meeting - 1928 - 858 pages
...why Louisiana will not permit this action, notwithstanding the wide vision of onr code which provides that "every act whatever of man that causes damage...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it," 15 The compilers of the Code of Practice of 1834 were active practitioners and distinguished scholars.... | |
 | Louisiana, Robert Hardin Marr - 1915 - 960 pages
...competent witness, Stoddard vs. Stoddard, 122 La. 151. OFFENSES AND QUASI-OFFENSES. 885. [Art. 2315.] Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another,...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it ; the right of this action shall survive in case of death in favor of the children or widow of the... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1915 - 1322 pages
...have created a right of action for death caused by negligence. and include the ancient civil law rule that "every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happens to repair it." 1 Express provision is however made in some states to the efl'ect that the county... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1915 - 718 pages
...976, 124 Am. St. Rep. 448), under a clause of the Civil Code providing that "every act whatsoever of a man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it," it was held that sorrow caused by the death of a son and the deprivation of the child's society constituted... | |
 | Heman Gerald Chapin - 1917 - 720 pages
...which may exclude him from society." Cf. Lewis v. Hudson, 44 Ga. 568. Civ. Code La. art. 2315, provides that "every act whatever of man that causes damage...obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it." Hence its courts "are not bound by the technical distinctions of the common law as to words actionable... | |
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Code undertook to abolish these distinctions by enacting that "every act whatever of man that causes damage to another, obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it. 
