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Tort

Jay Laxmi Salt Works (P) Ltd. v. State of Gujarat, (1994) 4 SCC 1 (9). It means a civil wrong which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust. [Limitation Act,

law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the plaintiff, and in tort the compensation to the plaintiff for the loss or damage which it may be supposed be has suffered

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obligation

arising from law, contract, or morality [had a legal as an employer] [a contractual ] 4 in the civil law of Louisiana : a relationship that binds one party to a performance (as a payment or transfer)

Lien

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until … respect to other dealings of the like nature. General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties.

Separate estate

the Act, that a married woman is to be capable of (1) acquiring; rendering herself liable in contractor tort; (2) being capable of being sued in contract or tort; and (3) being subjected to bankruptcy law and

cause

& Comment"] b : case [questions of law…determinative of the then pending "R. T. Gerwatowski"] 4 in the civil law of Louisiana : the reason for making a contract compare frustration NOTE: Under the Louisiana Civil Code,

Mahr (dower)

law have compared it to price in the contract of sale, it is simply because marriage is a civil contract under that law. Such being the nature of the dower (mahr), the rules which regulate its payment are

Damages

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 damages, irreparable … being able to award damages by way of compensation for a fraud, or for the non-performance of a contract relating to the sale and purchase of realty. This was amended by the (English) Chancery Amendment Act, 1858

condition

stated by the parties to a contract compare constructive condition in this entry potestative condition [pō-tes-tā-tiv] in the civil law of louisiana : a condition whose fulfillment was completely within the power of the obligated party NOTE:

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