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Fatuous persons
Fatuous persons, idiots. Includes express reference to 'breach of statutory duty' and to 'liability in tort', Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692. Means negligence, breach of … Pakistan Shipping Corpn. (No. 4) (CA), (2000) 3 WLR 1692. Means negligence, breach of statutory duty or other act or omission, Standard Chartered Bank v. Pakistan Shipping Corpn. [HL(E), (2000) 3 WLR 1547: (2002) UKHL 43. Relates
Master and servant
by the cases. This defence is termed the defence of 'common employment' (see that title). But the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, has much modified this exception, by depriving the master of the defence of common employment in the … some other wrongful act, is liable for the damage thus occasioned to the master. A master is liable civilly for torts committed by his servant in the course of or under colour of his employ, but not
Administrative law
functions of public authorities and officers and of tribunals, judicial review of the exercise of those functions, the civil liability and legal protection of those purporting to exercise them and aspects of the means whereby extra-judicial redress may … rules, regulations, reports of opinions containing findings of fact, and orders; and (3) the legal principles governing the acts of public agents when those acts conflict with private rights, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 46. Administrative
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Publisher of libellous matter
matter, is liable both civilly and criminally in respect of any such matter he may publish, and his civil liability exists even though the publication takes place without his knowledge. 'Not only the party who originally prints, but … copy of every book published in the United Kingdom to the British Museum and other libraries, see Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo.5, c. 46), s. 15, and the British Museum Act, 1932 (22 & 23
offense
quasi contract at contract, quasi-offense NOTE: Breach of contract, offenses, quasi-offenses, and quasi contracts are the bases for civil liability under the civil law. Offenses and quasi-offenses are comparable to common-law torts. … offense or of·fence [ə-fens] n 1 : a violation of the law ;esp : a criminal act [nor shall any person be subject for the same to be twice put in jeopardy "U.S. Constitution amend.
Act
a deed, Black's law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. Is used with reference to an offence or a civil wrong, shall include a series of acts, and words which refer to act done extend also to illegal … degrees of generation. When it is said, however, that an act is one of the essential conditions of liability. We use the term in the widest sense of which it is capable. We mean by it any
Executor de son tort.
Leeder, (1878) 47 LJ QB 573; A.-G. v. New York Breweries Co., 1899 AC 62. As to his liability in respect of a term of years of which the deceased was assignee, see Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation v. Parker, … Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to
Adoption
law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil law (as to which, see Sand. Just.) prevails to any great extent. In 1889 and 1890, Lord Meath … or consent or marriage, and the child assumes the same relation to the adopter, e.g., in regard to liability for the latter's maintenance, and natural parents are deprived permanently of their parental rights, and are required to … Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another.
Husband and wife
section, as amended, enacts that 'every married woman shall have against all persons, including her husband, the same civil and (unless they be living together or the act complained of took place when they were living together) … INSURANCE. Sect. 3 of the (English) Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, has abolished the husband's liability for his wife's torts and ante-nuptial contracts, debts and obligations. Previously to this enactment, by the Common Law,
Infant
man ought, as a general rule, to be responsible for acts not his own.' As to the criminal liability of infants, see AGE; CHILDREN. Ward of Court.--The general superintendence and protective jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery … Milton v. Studd, (1910) 2 KB 118. An infant is liable for torts committed by him unless the tort has arisen out of a contract, see R. Leslie v. Shiell, (1914) 3 KB 607, where the authorities … one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common
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