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Absolute liability
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privilege
requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action is privileged compare excuse absolute privilege : a privilege that exempts a person from liability esp. for defamation regardless of intent or motive
privileged communication
expose the party making it to the liability that would follow from it if not privileged called also absolutely privileged communication b : a defamatory statement made by one person to another who is in a confidential
Hire purchase
he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a … pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods
Owner (Estate Owner)
of the estate (see LEGAL ESTATE) for the purposes of sale, mortgage, lease or otherwise. This includes the absolute beneficial owner, tenants for life, statutory owners (q.v.), trustees for sale, and personal representatives and mortgagees in exercise … in exercise of their paramount powers. The legal title so disposed of is subject to all such equities, liabilities and charges and obligations (if any) attaching to the estate as may be binding on the transferee and
Registration of title of land
in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to … notice under the general law, and subsequent registered proprietors not being purchasers for value are under the same liability in regard to minor interests which affected the registered proprietor at the time of transfer to them [s.
Impossibility
lessee covenants to repair and to leave in repair the demised premises he is not discharged from his liability because they happen to be destroyed [see Bullock v. Dommitt, (1796) 6 TR 650]; or requisitioned by the … Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter
Settlement
the Poor Relief Act, 1662 (14 Car. 2, c. 12), to be maintained by that parish and a liability to be removed thereto. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the law of settlement, inconsequence of … the benefit of one person for his life, and after his death for the benefit of another person absolutely, or with a similar ultimate devolution for the use of several persons in succession after the person first
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