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Nuisance

causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree

Negligence

insurer against, and responsible for any damage done owing to the thing escaping, unless, possibly, the damage is due to the plaintiff's act or default, vis major, or the act of God, or under statutory sanction positively

Malice

private right. It need not necessarily be a feeling of enmity, spite or ill will; it may be due to a desire to obtain a collateral advantage, S.T. Sahib v. N. Hasan Ghani Sahib, AIR 1957 Mad

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Justifiable homicide

the killing of a human creature without incurring any legal guilt. It is of various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of

Institutions

the fourth, under three heads--their divisions, the way of acquiring them, and the means by which they become due to us. The divisions are principally two; by the first, things are divided into those which belong to

duty

duty pl: du·ties [Anglo-French deuté indebtedness, obligation, from deu owing, due, from Old French see due ] 1 : tasks, service, or functions that arise from one's position [performing

Extortio est crimen quando quis colore officii extorquet quod non est debitum, vel supra debitum, vel ante tempus quod est debitum

10 Rep. 102-(Extortion is that crime when, by colour of office, any person extorts that which is not due, or more than is due, or before the time when it is due.)

Mauzadar

Mauzadar, a Mauzadar is a public servant whose primary duty is to collect land revenue and other Government dues with the collection of which he is entrusted. He is responsible for the collection of poll-tax, house-tax, tauzibahir

Entering short

Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry

Lien

unless, indeed, a special contract exists. The debt or demand for which the lien is asserted must be due to the person claiming it in his own right, and not merely as agent. It must also, in

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