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Battery

(24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), ss. 42, 43. See ASSAULT. Battery, includes even the slightest force, no actual harm need result, it is actionable per se, Kenlin v. Gardiner, (1967) 2 QB 510; Fagan v. Metropolitan

Bodily harm

generally used in contradistinction to 'actual bodily harm' or 'grievous bodily harm,' as meaning a trivial injury. See ACTUAL BODILY HARM.

Calculated

more than mere likelihood and imports a design to affect voters. It connotes a subjective element, though the actual effect of the statement on the electoral mind reflected the result may afford a basis to ascertain whether

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Chose

in action, otherwise called chose in suspense, a thing of which a man has not the possession or actual enjoyment, but has a right to demand by action or other proceedings, as a debt, bond, etc. A

Compensation

to dictionary it means, 'compensating or being compensated; thing given as recompense;'. In legal sense it may constitute actual loss or expected loss and may extend to physical mental or even emotional suffering, insult or injury or

Damages

to discern. A plurality of variants stemming out of a core concept is seen in such words as actual damages, civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general

Occupation

of the Constitution-makers' intention to restrict power of the District Council only to make laws with respect to actual use or occupation of the land allotted or set apart for the purposes stated therein, District Council of

Deed

paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law

Delivery

v. Wilkinson (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1645 [Sale of Goods Act, 1979, s. 61(1)]. Means transfer of possession, actual or constructive, from one person to another, Halsbury's Laws of England 4(1), para 307, p. 157. Physical delivery

Discretion

to discretion exercised judicially, it implies the absence of a hard and fast rule, and it require an actual exercise of judgment and a consideration of the facts and circumstances with are necessary to make a sound,

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