1871 — Connecticut — Dangerous Person Law

1 Henry Dutton, A Revision of Swift’s Digest of the Laws of Connecticut. Also, Practice, Forms and Precedents, in Connecticut 564 (1871)

Summary

Persons who give arms to "incautious person[s]" are to ensure the arm is "perfectly innoxious."

Statutory Text

A person, before he trusts a gun with an incautious person, is bound to render it perfectly innoxious. Where the defendant negligently and imprudently entrusted a loaded gun to a young mulatto girl, who discharged it against the son of the plaintiff, and severely wounded him by which the plaintiff lost his service and was put to great expense for his cure, the defendant was subjected to 100 pounds damages.

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Title 1871 — Connecticut — Dangerous Person Law
Conduct Transfer & Sale
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction CT
Date 1871