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Continuing wrong
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Continuing nuisances
Matched in: Term Continuing nuisances
Sufferance, Tenancy at
arises when a person after his right to the occupation, under a lawful title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement or disagreement of the person … permission of the person who has the right, till it is proved that the tenant withholds the possession wrongfully, which the law will not presume. As the party came to the possession by right, the law will
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Adverse possession
in wrong and is maintained against right when commencement and is maintained against right when the commencement and continuance of possession is legal and proper, referable to a contract, it cannot be adverse. Hence, the purchaser who
Mental cruelty
must be such that the wronged party cannot reasonably be asked to put up with such conduct and continue to live with the other party. It is not necessary to prove that the mental cruelty is such … nature that the parties cannot reasonably be expected to live together. The situation must be such that the wronged party cannot reasonably be asked to put up with such conduct and continue to live with the other
Wrongful dismissal
v. Powell, (1795) 6 Term Rep 320, and Notes, Sm. L.C.], or if he treats the contract as continuing, he may sue for damages for loss of service and such wages as he has lost the opportunity … Wrongful dismissal. A wrongful dismissal is an unjustifiable dismissal of a servant by the master from an engagement for
Prerogative of mercy
more of the nature of a private injury to each individual in the neighbourhood than of a public wrong. The King cannot pardon some offences against a popular or penal statute, after information brought: 3 Inst. 238. … fine, because though the prosecution is vested in the King of avoid multiplicity of suits, yet (during its continuance) this offence savours more of the nature of a private injury to each individual in the neighbourhood than
trespass
trespass [Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass] : … in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it)
Guardianship
and humane character, and resident in England. The wardship of infants and the care of infants' estates is continued to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 44 … the High Court of Justice by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 44 and 56. (6) Guardian in Tort, or by Intrusion (Tutor Alienus).--This is an indirect guardianship, arising from a person intruding into an infant's property;
Damages
core concept is seen in such words as actual damages, civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative … special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrong doing of another, (b) reparation awarded to the injured through legal remedies, and (c) its quantum being determined
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