The "Marpesia"
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 15 February 1872 |
| Date | 15 February 1872 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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11 cases
- The Merchant Prince
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Loh Luan Choo Betsy (alias Loh Baby) (administratrix of the estate of Lim Him Long) and Others v Foo Wah Jek
...referred to “reasonable care”. He also noted that in a 1957 Ontario Court of Appeal case, the view of the Privy Council in The Marpesia (1872) LR 4 PC 212 on inevitable accident had been preferred to that of Cartwright J. In The Marpesia, it was said at 220, following Dr Lushington’s defini......
- The Schwan
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Loh Luan Choo Betsy (alias Loh Baby) (administratrix of the estate of Lim Him Long) and Others v Foo Wah Jek
...referred to “reasonable care”. He also noted that in a 1957 Ontario Court of Appeal case, the view of the Privy Council in The Marpesia (1872) LR 4 PC 212 on inevitable accident had been preferred to that of Cartwright J. In The Marpesia, it was said at 220, following Dr Lushington’s defini......
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Tort Law
...of inevitable accident. Judith Prakash J adopted the definition of inevitable accident laid down by the Privy Council in The Marpesia(1872) LR 4 PC 212 at 220: [I]nevitable accident … is … that which the party charged with the offence could not possible prevent by the exercise of ordinary c......