Sir James Stephen
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Stephen
in the texts
The Law of Torts
Legal writer credited with collecting cases on causation of death in criminal law.
They are collected by Sir James Stephen.
The opinion of the Judicial Committee, outside the colony of Victoria, is as extra-judicial as the contrary and (it is submitted) better opinion expressed in two places by Sir James Stephen as to the possible commission of murder or manslaughter by the wilful or reckless infliction of “nervous shock,” or the later contrary decisions in Ireland and New York.
(2) more particularly (in the words of Sir James Stephen), “an act injurious to the person or to the property of some person who is not at the time of that act a subject of her Majesty;
Law in a Free State
A legal authority quoted explaining the significance of R. v. Bryan for the law of false pretences.
“This case is often,” says Sir James Stephen, “but, I think, wrongly supposed to decide that a misrepresentation as to quality cannot be a false pretence.