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actual cause

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Impedimentum dirimens

Impedimentum dirimens, 'cause or impediment' to marriage which is not removed by the actual solemnisation of the rite, but continues in force and makes the marriage null and void (opposed to impedimentum

cause

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notice

prescribed by a statute, rule, or contract. b : awareness of such a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding actual notice 1 : actual awareness or direct notification of a specific fact, demand, claim, or proceeding [had actual … notice : notice that is imputed to a party having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that would cause a reasonable party to inquire further or having possession of a means of knowing a particular fact and

Passing off

Passing off, in action for passing off pray of actual deception is not necessary two marks bear an ovrall similarity as would be likely to mislead a person … calculated to injure, as a reasonably foreseeable consequence, the business or goodwill of another which actually or probably, causes damages to the business or good of the other trader, Wander Ltd. v. Antox India P. Ltd., 1990

Cause of action

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Voluntarily causing grievous hurt

grievous hurt, if intending or knowing himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt, of one kind, he actually causes grievous hurt of another kind. Illustration, A, intending or knowing himself to be likely permanently to disfigure

Cruelty

must be such wilful treatment of the party which caused suffering in body or mind either as an actual fact or by way of apprehension in such a manner as to render to continued living together of … and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental

knowledge

knowledge 1 a : awareness or understanding esp. of an act, a fact, or the truth : actual knowledge in this entry b : awareness that a fact or circumstance probably exists ; broadly : constructive … that the name and account number referred to different persons] 2 : awareness of such information as would cause a reasonable person to inquire further ; specif : such awareness considered as a timely and sufficient substitute

Parties

to defend in such action, on behalf of or for the benefit of all parties so interested. 'No cause or matter shall be defeated by reason of the misjoinder or non-joinder of parties, and the court may … matter deal with the matter in controversy, so far as regards the rights and interests of the parties actually before it. The court or a judge may, at any stage of the proceedings, either upon or without

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