What Is an Accident?

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  • Charles Corfield
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course, arising out of the Workmen's Compensation Act, but sometimes under common law as well ; and therefore a review of those decisions which have helped to define what an accident is may not be out of place at a medical meeting. It is curious that neither of the Workmen's Compensation Acts contained this definition, so that the meaning of the term has tended to vary case by case. Prior to these Acts little difficulty had ever arisen in common law cases of negligence, as running-down accidents or railway accidents, and as regards workmen before these Acts negligence was the only claim for accident that could be sustained by a servant against a master.

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دوره 31  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2016