Liverpool
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
The Law of Torts
English city named as the location of the warehouse in Byrne v. Boadle.
Boadle a barrel of flour fell from a window in the defendant’s warehouse in Liverpool, and knocked down the plaintiff, who was lawfully passing in the public street.
The lessee of a steam ferry at Liverpool, having to meet an unusual press of traffic, hired a vessel with its crew from other shipowners to help in the work of the ferry for a day.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Rising industrial and commercial city named among the new towns of the north.
Towns such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool acquired a new importance, and with this change the influence of employers of labour begun to overshadow the authority of squires and merchants.