Robinson v. Kerr

How courts have described this case

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• stating that statutes are not presumed to alter the common law unless the act expressly provides for alteration
• stating that statutes are not presumed to alter the common law unless the act expressly provides for alteration
• finding strict liability for personal injury caused by livestock while plaintiff was attempting to expel the trespassing stock
• “ ‘Statutes are not presumed to alter the common law otherwise than the act expressly provides.’” (quoting In re Reynolds’ Guardianship, 60 Cal.App.2d 669, 141 P.2d 498, 500 (1943))
• a statute modifies the common law “only to the extent embraced in the statute, which may not be enlarged by construction, nor its application extended beyond its specific terms. Statutes are not presumed to alter the common law otherwise than the act expressly provides.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).