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Tenant-right
Tenant-right, in England--(1) a custom ensuring to an out-going tenant compensation from his landlord for not being able to reap the full benefit of labour or improvements expended or
Tithe Rent-Charge
October, 1936 (s. 1). The Act creates redemption stock secured by the consolidated fund to be issued for compensation to persons interested in tithe rent-charge to yield interest equal to the gross annual value of the rent-charge
Tort
Apparently if the plaintiff has suffered an injury for which, apart from the contract, he could have recovered damages, it is a tort, although it may also be a breach of contract and not less if the
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Total disablement
resulting in such disablement, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Mohd. Saleem Khan, (1992) 2 Civ LJ 46. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2(1)(l)] The expression 'total disablement' has been defined in s. 2(1) of
Wrongful dismissal
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 of earning, taking into account
Remoteness
have been in his contemplation at the time, it will be excluded as too remote. Consult Maine on Damages, and see CAUSA CAUSANS. The term is also often used to signify an infraction of the rule against
Retrenchment
121: 1957 SCJ 83). The Parliament then stepped in and introduced ss. 25FF and 25FFF by providing that compensation shall be payable to workmen in case of transfer of undertaking or closure of undertaking as if the
Criminal conversation
s. 33 [replaced by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 189] gives a husband the right to claim damages from adulterer, either in a petition for dissolution of marriage or for judicial separation,or in a petition limited
Remittitur damnum
Remittitur damnum. Where a jury gave greater damages than a plaintiff had declared for, the mistake might be rectified by entering a remittitur for the excess;
Counter-claim
counterclaim, against the claims of the plaintiff, any right or claim, whether such set-off or counter-claim sound in damages or not, and such set-off or counterclaim shall have the same effect as across action, so as to
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