Gautret v Egerton; Jones v Egerton

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1865
Year1865
CourtCourt of Common Pleas
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    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Metroplex Development Sdn Bhd v Mohd Mastana bin Makaddas and Another
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1995
  • McGeown v Northern Ireland Housing Executive
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 23 June 1994
    ...House. 4 The appeal raises two principal issues. The first concerns the soundness of what has come to be known as the rule in Gautret v. Egerton (1867) L.R. 2 C.P. 371, to the effect that the owner of land over which a public right of way passes is under no liability for negligent nonfeasan......
  • Greenhalgh v British Railways Board
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 May 1969
    ...of a public or private right of way. Such a person was never regarded as an invitee or licensee, or treated as such. As Mr. Justice Willes said in Gautret v. Egerton. (1867 I law Reports 2 C.P. at page 373): "But what duty does the law impose upon these defendants to keep their bridges in r......
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  • Table of Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Public Rights of Way: The Essential Law Contents
    • 30 August 2019
    ...797, [2012] 2 P & CR 11, CA 89 Gardner v Hodgsons’s Kingston Brewery Ltd [1903] AC 229, 72 LJ Ch 558, 52 WR 17, HL 19 Gautret v Egerton (1867) LR 2 CP 371, 36 LJCP 191, 15 WR 638, Ct CP 57 Gerring v Barfield (1864) 16 CB (NS) 597, 28 JP 615, 143 ER 1261 59 Gloucestershire County Council v F......
  • THE ROLE OF LAW IN PLEADINGS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...referred to in the affidavit. 68 Ibid. Also see DSQ Property Co Ltd v Lotus Cars Ltd, Times, 28 June 1990. 69 Also see Gautret v Egerton(1867) LR 2 CP 371; West Rand Central Gold Mining Company Ltd v The King[1905] 2 KB 391. at 399—400. 70 (1882) 45 LT 755. 71 Also see Day v Brownrigg(1878)......
  • Landowner, Tenant and Occupier
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Public Rights of Way: The Essential Law Contents
    • 30 August 2019
    ...same 42 Restricted Byways (Application and Consequential Amendment of Provisions) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1177). 43 Gautret v Egerton (1867) LR 2 CP 371; Greenhalgh v British Railways Board [1969] 2 QB 286. Occupiers’ Liability Act 1984, s 1(7). 58 Public Rights of Way: The Essential Law ......

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