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Cum par delictum est duorum semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa

Cum par delictum est duorum semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa [Lat.], When both parties are equally in fault the plaintiff must always fail and the cause of him in possession be preferred....


Delictum

Delictum, challenge propter. See CHALLENGE.A delict, tort, wrong, injury or offence. Actions ex facie are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract....


Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem incivilibus

Excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus quod non operatur idem incivilibus. Bac. Max. r. 15.-(That may excuse of palliate a wrongful act in capital cases which would not have the same effect in civil injuries.)...


Majus est delictum seipsum occidere quam alium

Majus est delictum seipsum occidere quam alium [Lat.], it is a greater crime to kill one's self than another....


Necessitas excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus, quod non operatur idem in civilibus

Necessitas excusat aut extenuat delictum in capitalibus, quod non operatur idem in civilibus [Lat.], necessity excuses or extenuates delinquency in capital, which would not operate the same in civil cases....


delict

delict [Latin delictum misdeed, offense, from neuter past participle of delinquere to commit (an offense), err] 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : offense ;esp : an offense other than breach of contract that creates an obligation for damages NOTE: Delict is the civil law equivalent of the common-law tort. 2 : a criminal offense de·lic·tu·al [di-lik-chə-wəl] adj ...


Challenge

Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...


Use

Use, connotes that the traveling or stationary vehicle at the time when it becames the subject-matters of a delictum was at the place where it is found in the course of its user in accordance with the permit granted to it, TV Moidu (in re:), AIR 1960 Mad 265.Use, in application of law is the profit or benefit of lands and tenement, or a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holdings of lands, that he to whose use the trust is made shall take the profits thereof, Tomlins.Use, in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal consumption. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxviiia)]Meaning of the word 'use' in the Oxford Dictionary some of which are as follows: 'To make use of as a means or instrument; To employ for a profitable end;' Automotive Manufacturers (P) Ltd. v. Govern-ment of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 229 (231): (1972) 1 SCC 125: (1972) 2 SCR 593.1. The application or employment of s...


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