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Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform in the particular circumstance of each case. A very convenient classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1) ordinary, which is the want of ordinary diligence; (2) slight, the want of great diligence; and (3) gross, the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow Corporation v. Taylor, (1922) 1 AC 44. There is also a peculiar duty to take precaution in the case of dangerous Articles, see Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 AC 640. This case should be distinguished from the principle in Fletche...
Collateral
Collateral, indirect, sideways, that which hangs by the side; applied in several ways, thus:--collateral assurance, that which is made over and above the deed itself; collateral consanguinity or kindred, which descend from the same stock or ancestor as the lineal relation, but do not descend one from the other, as the issue of two sons; collateral issue, where a criminal convict pleads any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz., that he or she is not the same that was attained, etc., the issue upon which when taken is tried by a jury instanter; collateral security, where a deed is made of other property, besides that already mortgaged, for the better safety of the mortgagee (see Re Athill, (1880) 16 Ch D 211) or a bill of exchange given, or pledge deposited to secure a pre-existing debt; and collateral contract, where a contract by word of mouth co-exists [see e.g., Morgan v. Griffiths, (1871) LR 6 Ex 70; De Lassa...
Contributory negligence
Contributory negligence, the question of contributory negligence arises when there has been some act or omission on the claimant's part, which has materially contributed to the damage caused, and is of such a nature that it may properly be described as 'negligence', Pramod Kumar Rasikbhai Lhaveri v. Karmasey Kunvarji Tok, (2002) 6 SCC 455: AIR 2002 SC 2864 (2866). [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988]Negligence on the part of a plaintiff disentitling him to recover. 'Sometimes, however, he [the defendant] is driven to admit that he was guilty of some negligence, which may have been one of the causes conducting to the plaintiff's injury. But at the same time he asserts that the plaintiff was himself negligent, and that it was this negligence on the part of the plaintiff, and not his own, that was the proximate or decisive cause of the injury for which the plaintiff now seeks to recover damages from him. This is called the defence of contributory negligence.'-Odgers on the Common Law, 2nd Edn., p. ...
Negligence, contributory negligence
Negligence, contributory negligence, the question of contributory negligence arises when there has been some act or omission on the claimant's part, which has materially contributed to the damage caused, and is of such a nature that it may properly be described as 'negligence'. Negligence ordinarily means breach of a legal duty to care, but when used in the expression 'contributory negligence' it does not mean breach of any duty. It only means the failure by a person to use reasonable care for the safety of either himself or his property, so that he becomes blameworthy in part as an 'author of his own wrong', Pramod Kumar Rasikbhai Jhaveri v. Kanmasey, AIR 2002 SC 2864 (2866): (2002) 6 SCC 455. (Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 168)...
collateral
collateral 1 a : accompanying as a secondary fact, activity, or agency but subordinate to a main consideration b : not directly relevant or material [a evidentiary matter] [a issue] 2 : belonging to the same ancestral stock but not in a direct line of descent compare lineal 3 a : of, relating to, or being collateral used as a security (as for payment of a debt) b : secured by collateral [a loan] col·lat·er·al·ly adj n 1 : a collateral relative 2 : property pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender in the event of the borrower's default ;specif under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code : property subject to a security interest ...
collateralize
collateralize -ized -iz·ing 1 : to make (a loan) secure with collateral 2 : to use (as securities) for collateral ...
cross-collateralize
cross-collateralize -ized -iz·ing : to secure (a preexisting debt) with cross-collateral cross-collateralization n ...
Collateral or incidental issue
Collateral or incidental issue, a collateral or incidental issue is one that is ancillary to a direct and substantive issue; the former is an auxiliary issue and the latter the principal issue. The expression 'collaterally or incidentally' in issue implies that there is another matter which is 'directly and substantially' in issue, Sajjadanashin Sayed Md. B.E Edr v. Musa Dadabhai Ummer, (2000) 3 SCC 350: AIR 2000 SC 1238 (1243). [Civil Procedure Code 1908, s. 11]...
Collateral warrants
Collateral warrants, abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), s. 14, was where the heir's title to the land neither was, nor could have been, derived from the warranting ancestor, as where a younger brother released to his father's disseisor with warranty, this was collateral to the elder brother. The whole doctrine of collateral warranty is repugnant to justice; and even its technical grounds are so obscure that the ablest legal writers are not agreed upon the subject, Wright's Tenures, 168; Gilbert's Tenures, 143....
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