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Damage
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 … Mad 78. As defined by McGregor are the pecuniary compensation, obtainable by success in an action, for a wrong which is either a tort or a breach of contract, the compensation being in the form of a
Negligence
SCC 151. Negligence, has many manifestations ' it may be active negligence, collateral negligence, comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, continued negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence, hazardous negligence, active and passive negligence, willful or reckless negligence or negligence per … the representatives of a deceased foreigner as for those of a British subject, at all events if the wrong-doer is not a foreigner, Davidson v. Hill, (1901) 2 KB 606. Contributory Negligence of Plaintiff.--If the plaintiff has
Withhold
or decline to grant. The holding back or keeping back is not an isolated act but is a continuous process by which the property is not returned or restored to the company and the company is deprived … officer or employee of the company does any such act by which the property given to him, is wrongfully withheld and is not restored back to the company, it will clearly amount of an offence within the
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Remainder
by act of law and his title, though immediately derived from a person who himself acquired it by wrong, is so far respected in law that A. cannot restore his possession by entry, and can only recover … (5) It is not necessary for the support of a contingent remainder that the preceding estate of freehold continue in the actual seisin of the rightful tenant; it is sufficient that there subsists a right to such
trust
making profit and that is usually characterized by some kind of commercial activity, transferable certificates of interest, existence continuing after the death of beneficiaries, limited liability, legal title in the hands of trustees, and officers having duties … 1 : an implied trust imposed by a court to prevent the unjust enrichment of one who has wrongfully obtained (as through fraud or bad faith) title to the property or a property interest of another called
Client
relation subsists. In short, all dealings, of whatever kind, between solicitor and client, so long as the relation continues, are viewed by the Court with the utmost jealousy, and if impeached the onus of upholding them is … he was the guardian and protector of his own children; be maintained the client's suit when he was wronged, and defended him when another complained of being wronged by him; in a word, the patron was the
Hindu
regard other forms other forms other forms of worship, strange gods, and diver-gent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine complement each other for the well-being of the … millennium B.C. Because it integrates a large variety of heterogeneous elements, Hinduism constitutes a very complex but largely continuous whole, and since it covers the whole of life, it has religious, social, economic, literary, and artistic aspects.
Husband and wife
ss. 13-15 (now repealed) of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, which enacted that a wife was to continue liable for such debts to the extent of her separate property, but that a husband was liable for … debts and obligations. Previously to this enactment, by the Common Law, in an action in respect of a tort committed by a wife the husband had to be joined as a party, and though by s. 1(2)
Fraud
equally reprehensi-ble with positive fraud, and therefore equally prohibited. Thus, to prevent injustice and shut out inducement to wrong, certain transactions are held to be fradulent, as contrary to general policy, or to fixed legal principles; as … against fraud, or to define the species of evidence receivable in support of it, their decrees would be continually eluded; to afford complete protection new principles must be created to meet new species of fraud. Concealed fraud.
Master and servant
stipulated, it is considered a hiring with reference to the general understanding on the subject, that is, a continuing service until the expiration of a month's warning given by either party. It is not compulsory in England … of his servant by enticing him away in breach of his contract of service, or by some other wrongful act, is liable for the damage thus occasioned to the master. A master is liable civilly for torts
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