Excusable Neglect - Law Dictionary Search Results
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excusable neglect : the failure of a party to follow a required procedure in a timely fashion that results from a circumstance (as an accident) which is considered by the court to be sufficient reason to excuse that party compare unavoidable casualty NOTE: Excusable neglect allows a party to seek relief from a default judgment, to file late, or to be granted a deadline extension. ...
unavoidable casualty
unavoidable casualty : unavoidable accident ;also : an unavoidable circumstance that prevents the timely performance of a procedural act (as the filing of an answer) by a party or the party's lawyer compare excusable neglect NOTE: As with excusable neglect, showing evidence of unavoidable casualty will relieve a party from a default judgment or a time limit. ...
Pawnbroker
Pawnbroker, contemplates that every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of goods or chattels and who purchases goods or chattels and pays or advances thereon any sum of money, with or under an agreement or understanding expressed or implied that the goods or chattel may be afterwards repurchased on any terms, is a 'pawnbroker', Karnataka Pawnbrokers' Assn. v. State of Karnataka, (1998) 7 SCC 707.One who lends money on goods which he receives upon pledge.The rate of interest which pawnbrokers may take has been fixed by law since 1800, by 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 48, which Act placed their whole business under various other restrictions. By the (English) Pawn-brokers Act, 1872 (which applies to Scotland, but not to Ireland), this Act, together with its amending Acts, is repealed, and the statute law of the subject consolidated. Sch. IV., dealing with profits and charges, has been amended by the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1922, in respect of loans not exceeding 40s.By s. 5 of the A...
cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
Lynch-law
Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance of the law, alleging as an excuse either the slowness of the regular legal procedure, or the neglect of the duly constituted authorities to put it in force, or that no duly constituted authorities exist. Lynch-law has been often practised in the United States America....
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