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Damage
actual damages, civil damages, compensatory damages, consequential damages, contingent damages, continuing damages, double damages, excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable … pecuniary compensation, obtainable by success in an action, for a wrong which is either a tort or a breach of contract,
Injunction
susceptible of being compensated by damages, or as from its continuance or permanent mischief must occasion a constantly recurring grievance which … person is required to refrain from doing a specified meditated wrong, not amounting to a crime. It is either (1) inter-locutory,
Negligence
may be active negligence, collateral negligence, comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, continued negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence, hazardous negligence, active and passive … those of a British subject, at all events if the wrong-doer is not a foreigner, Davidson v. Hill, (1901) 2 KB
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Possession
Possession of a right is the de facto relation of continuing exercise and enjoyment as opposed to the de jure relation … bring an action of trespass against the lessor. Possession, even wrongful, is a form of ownership. In all cases it confers
Master and servant
to the general understanding on the subject, that is, a continuing service until the expiration of a month's warning given by … breach of his contract of service, or by some other wrongful act, is liable for the damage thus occasioned to the
Husband and wife
Property Act, 1882, which enacted that a wife was to continue liable for such debts to the extent of her separate … the Common Law, in an action in respect of a tort committed by a wife the husband had to be joined
Hindu
of heterogeneous elements, Hinduism constitutes a very complex but largely continuous whole, and since it covers the whole of life, it … worship, strange gods, and diver-gent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine
Client
kind, between solicitor and client, so long as the relation continues, are viewed by the Court with the utmost jealousy, and … own children; be maintained the client's suit when he was wronged, and defended him when another complained of being wronged by
Case, action on the
1873 and 1875, the term 'action on the case' only continues to exist as a convenient mode of expression, and has … case lay where a party sued for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint (such as negligence, or breach of
cause
: one (as a broker) that sets in motion a continuous series of events culminating esp. in the sale or leasing … The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in
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