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EVIDENCE CONSOLIDATION . ( 2 OF 1889. ] 1113
COMPENSATION TO FAMILIES . [ 3 OF 1889. )

56. Nothing herein contained shall repeal any provision Nothing
contained in chapter twenty-six of the statute passed in the herein
interfere to
session of Parliamentholden in the seventh year of the reign ofwithwillsthe. law
of King William the fourth and the first year of the reign of (w.36.
No. of
Her present Majesty: 1852, s. 12. ]

SCHEDULE OF REPEALS.
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No. 3 OF 1889.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Law relat
ing to the compensation of the families of persons
killed by accidents arising from negligence .
[ 18th January, 1889.]
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1. This ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Com- Short title.
pensation to Families Ordinance, 1889.
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3. In the interpretation of this ordinance the word parent Interpreta
shall include father and mother, and grand -father and grand- tion
(No. 10 of
mother, and step -father and stop -mother; and the word child and
1870,10s.V.1,9c.
shall include son and daughter, and grand-son and grand- 93,8.5.)
daughter and step -son and step -daughter.
4. Whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by any Suit may be
brought
wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default again st person
is such as would ( if death had not ensuell) have entitled the &causingdeath
c
,
person injured to maintain aa suit and recover damages in respect So. 10 of
thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have and 1870,10s.V.2,9c.
been liable if death haid not ensued , shall be liable to a snit for 93,s. 10.)
damages notwithstanding the deatb of the person injureil, and
although the death shall have been caused under such circum
stances as amount in law to felony.
5. Every such suit shall be for the benefit of the wife, hus- Suit for bene.
band, parent, and child of the person whose death shall have offit of relations
been so caused, and shall except as hereinafter provided be (No. 10 of
brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator and 10is v...c
of the person deceased ; and in every such suit the jury, or 93,s. 2.]
where the suit is tried without a jury the Court may give such
damages as they or it may think proportioned to the injury
resulting from such deathi, to ile parties respectively for whom
and for whose benefit such suits shall be brought; and the