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Comfort letter, is a letter written usually by a parent company or a government to the lender giving comfort to the lender about a loan made to a subsidiary or a public entity, Chemco Leasing SpA v. Rediffusion Ltd., (19 July, 1985, unreported), [QBD (affd (1987) FTLR 021, CA.Comfort letter, may be an indication that the parties did not intend the document to hare contractual effect, as may be the absence from the document of any express words of warranty or of promise, Kleinwort Benson Ltd. v. Malaysia Mining Corpn. Bhd, (1989) 1 All ER 785....
Comfortably
In a comfortable or comforting manner...
Physical comfort
Physical comfort, means a man's physical comfort in relation to the access of light and air to his house at any particular time depends upon the condition then actually obtaining, regardless of how those conditions came into being or when they may cease; it is a present fact uninfluenced by past history or future fate, Framji Shapurji v. Framji Edulji, (1928) ILR 30 Bom 325....
Comfortableness
State of being comfortable...
Comforter
One who administers comfort or consolation...
Comfortment
Act or process of administering comfort...
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...
Comfortless
Without comfort or comforts in want or distress cheerless...
Consolation
The act of consoling the state of being consoled allevation of misery or distress of mind refreshment of spirit comfort that which consoles or comforts the spirit...
Accessary, or Accessory
Accessary, or Accessory [particeps criminis quasi accedens ad culpam, Lat. As though assenting to the offence], he who is not a chief actor at a felony, nor present at its perpetration, but yet is in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. An accessory before the fact is one who being absent at the time of the commission of the felony, yet procures, counsels, or commands another to commit a crime. Absence is necessary to make him an accessory, for if he be present, he becomes a principal. An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon; but a wife may lawfully receive, comfort and assist her husband, though knowing him to be a felon. In treason and misdemeanours there are no accessories, either before or after the offence, every person implicated being a principal [see (English) Accessories and Abettors Act, 1861, s. 8, and Du Cross v. Lambourne, (1907) 1 KB 40]. In mansla...
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