Belly God - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: belly godBelly god
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite a glutton an epicure...
Bellied
Having such a belly puffed out used in composition as pot bellied shad bellied...
Big bellied
Having a great belly as a big bellied man or flagon advanced in pregnancy...
Fish bellied
Bellying or swelling out on the under side as a fish bellied rail...
Gor belly
A prominent belly a big bellied person...
Act of God
Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is that where the law creates a duty and the party is disabled from performing it, without any default of his own, by the act of God or the King's enemies, the law will excuse him; but when a party by his own contract creates a duty he is bound to make it good, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, Nichols v. Marsland, (1876) 2 Ex D 4. See also Common Carrier, tit. CARRIER.Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91.Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature, such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. The definition has been statutorily broadened to include all natural phenomena that are exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible, the effects of whi...
belly up
to approach a counter and stand in front of it used mostly in the phrase belly up to the bar ie to a counter in a saloon...
Broken bellied
Having a ruptured belly...
empty bellied
needing nourishment hungry as empty bellied children...
Gor bellied
Bog bellied...
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