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unavoidable casualty

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

breach

the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification breach of duty : a breach of a duty esp. by a fiduciary (as an agent

Exoine, Essoigne

Exoine, Essoigne [Fr.], the excuse for not appearing in Court when cited. See ESSOIN.

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Judicial office

Judicial office, Administrative proximity with judicial work was regarded as an excuse good enough to elevate the administrator into a holder of judicial office, State of Haryana v. Haryana Co-operative

Inevitable accident

avoided: used in leases together with fire or tempest as a cause of destruction of the demised premises excusing the payment of rent or an omission by the lessee to repair. The expression is also very commonly

Indecent prints or books

Bradlaugh, (1878) 3 QBD 509]-he may order the seizure and destruction of such books, etc. Publication is not excused by innocent motives, R. v. Hicklin, (1868) LR 3 QB 360, nor by the fact that the publication

Ignorantia juris quod quisque scire tenetur non excusat

Ignorantia juris quod quisque scire tenetur non excusat [Lat.], ignorance of the law, which everybody is supposed to know, does not afford excuse.

Ignorantia juris

Ignorantia juris, means ignorance of law. Under Roman law, this type of ignorance did not excuse mistaken conduct, except in the case of minors and those under disability, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Half-timer

and Young Persons Act, 1933 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 46. In England, a child excused from full time attend-ance at school under the factory and Workshops Act, 1908 so that the child could

Escape

and then upon fresh pursuit the defendant may be retaken, even on a Sunday, and the sheriff was excused, if he had him again, before any action brought against himself for the escape. (2) Criminal. See the

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