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Fatuous Persons

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Fatuous persons, idiots.

Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692.

Means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or omission, Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. [HL(E), (2000) 3 WLR 1547: (2002) UKHL 43.

Relates to the conduct of the defendant - in other words, as it relates to the plainiff's cause of action, Rowe v. Turner Hopkins & Partners, (1980) 2 NZLR 550; See also Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn., (2001) LR (QB) 167 (CA).

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