Cyclone Cellar - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cyclone cellarCyclone cellar
A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone or tornado...
Cyclonic
Pertaining to a cyclone...
Cellar
Cellar. Also to prohibitions and restrictions upon use as a dwelling-house, see Housing Act, 1936, s. 12; and as a bakehouse, see Factory Act, 1901, s. 101....
Cellarage
The space or storerooms of a cellar a cellar...
Cyclone
A violent storm often of vast extent characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure This center moves onward often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour...
Cyclonoscope
An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone...
Derecho
A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency usually accompanied with rain and often destructive common in the prairie regions of the United States...
Act of God
Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is that where the law creates a duty and the party is disabled from performing it, without any default of his own, by the act of God or the King's enemies, the law will excuse him; but when a party by his own contract creates a duty he is bound to make it good, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, Nichols v. Marsland, (1876) 2 Ex D 4. See also Common Carrier, tit. CARRIER.Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91.Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature, such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. The definition has been statutorily broadened to include all natural phenomena that are exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible, the effects of whi...
Cellar
A room or rooms under a building and usually below the surface of the ground where provisions and other stores are kept...
Cellarer
A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions...
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