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Falsification
Financial Corporation, (1903) 1 Ch 728], authorized liquidators to prosecute by direction of the High Court in the event of a winding-up. This s. has been repealed, replaced and extended by the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s.
Force majeure
irresistible compulsion, coercion diplomatically recognized as irresistible, Concise Oxford Dict. Compare ACT OF GOD; RESTRAINT OF PRINCES. An event or effect that can be neither anticipated no controlled, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 657. The expression 'force majeure'
Fortuitous
D. Ganesh Rao Patnaik v. State of Jharkhand, (2005) 8 SCC 454. Means occurring by chance 'a fortuitous event may be highly unfortunate', Black's Law Dictionary, p. 664. Means 'accident or fortuitous casualty (Stroud's Judicial Dictionary)
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Free fight
out to fight and there is pitched battle. The question of who attacks and who defends in such event is wholly immaterial, Abdul Hamid v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1991)1 SCC 339: AIR 1991 SC 339.
Impossible
point of view of the object and purpose which the parties had in view; and if an untoward event or change of circumstances totally upsets the very foundation upon which the parties rested their bargain, it can
Indemnity
keep a person harmless from loss which that person may incur by reason of some act, omission or event. It differs from a guarantee which requires a writing under s. 4 of the Statute of Frauds in
Conditio dicitur cum quid in casum incertum qui potest tendere ad esse aut non esse confertur
aut non esse confertur. Co. Litt. 201.-(It is called a condition when something is given on an uncertain event which may or may not come into existence.)
Individual cases
Individual cases, the above words did not mean a particular person but meant 'pertaining to an event, situation or circumstances'. The power could therefore be exercised even in favour of a group, Suraj Prakash Gupta
Conditional legacy
Conditional legacy, a bequest whose existence depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event, by which it is either to take effect or to be defeated.
Amends, tender of
the pleading of tender of amends, and for taxation of the defendant's costs between solicitor and client in event of the plaintiff not recovering more than the sum tendered, etc. As to tender upon distress (q.v.), whether
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