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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
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
wrongful birth
wrongful birth : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a child born with a birth defect against a physician or health-care provider whose alleged negligence (as in prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the
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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
Default
does so according to a previous agreement with the plaintiff; through mistake, when he delivers a pleading so defective that it is treated as a nullity; and through neglect, when perhaps he has no merits, but omits
Demurrer
set up that it is insufficient in law to sustain his claim or that there is some other defect on the face of the pleadings constituting a legal reason why the opposite party should not be allowed
Disease
malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate) or to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses) or to inherent defects of the organism (as various genetic anomalies) or to combinations of these factors, State of Goa v. Colfox
Dower
can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver was discharged,
Drainage of house let furnished
fit for occupation, and in Wilson v. Finch-Hatton, (1877) 2 Ex D 336, this rule was applied to defective drainage of a London house, and the tenant who had quitted was held liable neither for the rent
Education
on this subject. Part III. Deals with the Elementary Schools; Part IV. School Attendance; Part V. Blind, Deaf, Defective and Epileptic Children; Part VI. Higher Education, Continuation Schools, etc. See also (English) Education (Institution Children) Act, 1923,
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