THE FATAL ACCIDENTS, 1855
[Act, No. 13 of 1855]1
[27th March, 1855]
PRAEMBLE
An Act to provide compensation to families for loss occasioned by the death of a person caused by actionable wrong.
Whereas no action or suit is now maintainable in any court against a person who, by his wrongful act, neglect, or default, may have caused the death of another person, and it is often-times right and expedient that the wrong-doer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him; It is enacted as follows:--
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1. This Act has been extended to Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968.