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Home Dictionary Name: collapsecollapsible
Capable of collapsing or being collapsed as a collapsible boat...
Collapse
To fall together suddenly as the sides of a hollow vessel to close by falling or shrinking together to have the sides or parts of a thing fall in together or be crushed in together as a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses...
Collapsion
Collapse...
noncollapsable
not able to be folded into a compact form Opposite of collapsible...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Subsidence
Subsidence, means where the perils insured against are 'subsidence and/or collapse' the word 'subsidence' herein means 'sinking', that is to say, movement in a vertical direction as opposed to settlement' which means movement in lateral directions. In a proper context, the word 'subsidence' may mean both sinking as well as settlement, Bimla Charan Batabyal v. Indian Museum Trustees, 57 Cal 231: 1930 Cal 404....
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