River Wear Commissioners v Adamson and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1876 |
| Year | 1876 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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...indications as there are seem to me to support the view that by the term "owner" is meant the actual owner, the proprietor. In River Wear Commissioners v Adamson (1877) LR 2 HL 743 mention was made of the difficulty for the undertakers of the harbour of investigating whom to pursue when dam......
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A New Thing Under the Sun? The Interpretation of Contract and the ICS Decision
...that Lord Blackburn was not speaking only of statutory interpretation when in River Wear Commissioners v Adamson in 1877 he said:44(1877) 2 App Cas 743 at My Lords, it is of great importance that those principles should be ascertained; and I shall therefore state, as precisely as I can, wha......