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Attempt to commit an offence

or a series of acts, which leads inevitable to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be

Attempt to commit crime

or a series of acts, which leads inevitably to the commission of the offence, unless something, which the doer of the act neither foresaw nor intended, happens to prevent this. An attempt may be described to be

Caveat actor

a very small amount of malice or negligence will suffice. See Malice and Res Ipsa Loquitur. Let the doer, or actor, beware, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 215.

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Distress

Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as...

Mala fide

accompaniment with some other factors which would depict a bad motive or intent on the part of the doer of the act, State of Punjab v. V.K. Khanna, AIR 2001 SC 343.

Negligence

Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform...

Tort feaser

Tort feaser, means who commits a tort; a wrong-doer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1497

Use and occupation, Action for

Use and occupation, Action for, an action for dam-ages upon the case for breach of an implied agreement to pay for the use of a landlord's property under the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo....

ist

A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer one who practices a believer in as theorist one who theorizes socialist one who holds to socialism sensualist

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