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consortium pl: -sor·tia [-shə, -shē-ə] also: -sortiums [Latin, sharing, partnership, from consort- consors sharer, partner] 1 : an agreement, combination, or group (as of companies) formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member 2 Medieval Latin, marital partnership, from Latin : the right of one spouse to the company, affection, and assistance of and to sexual relations with the other ;also : the right of a parent or child to the company, affection, and assistance of the other [suing for loss of ] compare society ...
Debt
Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only common form. There is another species mentioned in the books, called debt in the detinet, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. An action of debt as a technical term is now obsolete. See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:-1. Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liabl...
Secured creditor
Secured creditor, means any bank or financial institution or any consortium or group of banks or financial institutions and includes, (i) debenture trustee appointed by any bank or financial institution; or (ii) securitisation company or recon-struction company; or (iii) any other trustee holding securities on behalf of a bank or financial institution, in whose favour security interest is created for due repayment by any borrower of any financial assistance. [Securitisation and Recon-struction of Financial Assets and Enforcements of Security Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002), s. 2(1) (zd)]Secured creditor, means any bank or financial institution or any consortium or group of banks or financial institutions and includes--(i) debenture trustee appointed by any bank or financial institution; or(ii) securitization company or reconstruction company; or(iii) any other trustee holding securities on behalf of a bank or financial institution, in whose favour security interest is created for due r...
per quod
per quod [Latin, whereby] : on the basis of or with reference to extrinsic circumstances [statements are considered defamatory per quod if the defamatory character of the statement is not apparent on its face "Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp., 607 N.E.2d 201 (1992)"] [a per quod claim for loss of consortium] compare per se ...
society
society pl: -ties 1 : the benefits of love, care, affection, and companionship that family members receive from each other [sought damages for loss of from his wife's wrongful death] compare consortium 2 : a voluntary association of individuals dedicated to common ends [a conservation ] 3 : a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests so·ci·e·tal [-sī-ət-l] adj ...
wrongful pregnancy
wrongful pregnancy : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a healthy but unwanted child usually against a physician or health-care provider for alleged negligence in performing a sterilization or abortion procedure and sometimes against a pharmacist or pharmaceutical manufacturer of contraceptives ;also : the pregnancy or injury at issue in such a claim [an action for wrongful pregnancy] called also wrongful conception NOTE: A majority of courts faced with the issue have disallowed damages for child-rearing expenses in wrongful pregnancy cases. It is more common to recover for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, or loss of consortium from pregnancy and childbirth. ...
Consoritum
Consoritum. The marital right of cohabitation and mutual service. An action for damages lies for loss of consortium or of the services of the spouse if that loss is caused by any wrongful act such as enticement, slander, assault or negligence, see Jackson v. Watson & Sons, (1909) 2 KB 193; and see ENTICEMENT...
Enticement
Enticement, means whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having the case of her on behalf of that man, with intent, that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to two years, or with fines, or with both. [Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), s. 498]Promise to marry a minor girl and on that basis, she abandone her lawful guardian, would amount to enticement, Maniram Hazrika v. State of Assam, (2004) 5 SCC 120: AIR 2004 SC 2472 (2474). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 361).An action lies for damages suffered by the enticement of a person under an obligation to the plaintiff as by a married woman against another woman for enticing away her husband, Newton v. Hardy, (1933) 149 LT 165; see also Elliot v. Albert, (1934) 1 KB 650, loss of ...
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