Rescue

Rescue definition:
Taking and setting at liberty, against the law, either goods or imprisoned persons.

Rescue Doctrine
(n) Doctrine of rescue holds the wrongdoer who was instrumental to the damages or injury occurred to a property or person, as responsible for subsequent loss, ...

rescue doctrine
n. the rule of law that if a rescuer of a person hurt or put in peril due to the negligence or intentional wrongdoing of another (the tortfeasor) is injured in the process of the rescue, ...

RESCUE, crim. law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. Co. Litt. 160; 1 Chitty's Cr, Law, *62; 1 Russ. on Cr. 383. The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer.

Rescuers
For reasons of policy, the courts are reluctant to criticise the behaviour of rescuers. A rescuer would not be considered volens if: ...

one who rescues a ship, its cargo or its crew from danger. Salvors are entitled to rewards for their efforts regardless of whether their actions resulted in the rescue of a ship, its cargo or its crew.

He is not required to throw his life away attempting to rescue the widow’s parakeet from a marauding cat. He is allowed to exercise self-interest. He is not required to give his money to the poor.

and drafted in the COPUOS: the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (the "Outer Space Treaty"), the 1968 Agreement on the Rescue of ...

Second: That the person knowingly and willfully rescued that person, or attempted to rescue that person, or instigated, aided or assisted the escape or attempt of that person to escape from such custody.

Attachment will be granted in England against peers and members of parliament only for such gross contempts as rescues, disobedience to the sovereign's writs and the like. Attachment will not lie against a corporation.

a legal principle that prevents a rescuer who has voluntarily helped a victim in distress from being successfully sued for 'wrongdoing.

Train Accident Lawyers to the Rescue!
Train accidents have become very common nowadays. They are more often in the news and still counting. They usually cause untimely death which brings trauma to the victim's friends and relatives. ..

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