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cure

allowing…statements of government witness "National Law Journal"] ;also : to judicially correct or negate (procedural errors) [ a defect in the pleadings] b : to correct or make acceptable (a defective performance or delivery under a contract)

rejection

and revocation are two remedies available to the buyer under the Uniform Commercial Code after the delivery of defective goods. Goods may be rejected if they do not conform to the contract. The rejection must be made

wrongful life

wrongful life : a malpractice claim brought by or on behalf of a child born with a birth defect alleging that he or she would never have been born if not for the negligent advice or treatment

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Culpa

Negligence or fault as distinguishable from dolus deceit fraud which implies intent culpa being imputable to defect of intellect dolus to defect of heart

Duty to report defective plant

Duty to report defective plant, where a self-employed person or an employee discovers any defect in any plant which he is required

Cause of a like nature

of a like nature' must be so interpreted as to convey something analogous to the preceding words 'from defect of jurisdiction', Zafar Khan v. Board of Revenue, AIR 1985 SC 39 (47). [Limitation Act (36 of 1963),

Void decree, illegal decree

decree or order passed by such court would be without jurisdiction, non est and void ab initio. A defect of jurisdiction of the court goes to the root of the matter and strikes at the very authority

Constructive notice

less required because the law facilitates his disregard of them, or if he obtains actual notice of a defect in title. The facts from which constructive notice will be deemed to arise are not necessarily documentary. Absence

Redhibition

Just. Means the voidance of a sale as a result of an action brought on account of some defect in a thing sold, on grounds that the defect renders the thing either useless or so imperfect that

School

means a public elementary school, a school certified by the Board of Education as suitable for blind, deaf, defective or epileptic children, a certified workhouse school, a Scottish public or State-aided elementary school, a national school in

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