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County Courts
100l.; (2) where the only matter remaining to be tried is a counter-claim, founded either on contract or tort, where the matter indispute doesnot exceed 100l.; (3) where the plaintiff's claim is for the recovery ofland (with … in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, 'the Act for the more easy recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England,' repealed and re-enacted with fourteen amending Acts by the consolidating and amending (English) County
liability
of being liable 2 : something for which one is liable: as a : a financial obligation : debt [tax ] [the bonds are liabilities] compare asset contingent liability : an amount that may or may not … their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and
assault
assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present … position of trust see also rape NOTE: Sexual assault in its most serious forms (often classified as first degree sexual assault) involves nonconsensual sexual penetration. In its less serious forms it may be the equivalent of statutory
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Trespass
popular speech, it is limited to one particular kind of trespass in the second sense - viz. the tort of trespass to land, R.F.V. Hewton, Salmond on the Law of Torts 4 (17th Edn., 1977). It implies … Sen, (2001) 6 SCC 512. Trespass, has been used by lawyers and laymen in three senses of varying degree of generality (1) In its widest and original signification it includes any wrongful act-any infringement or transgression of
force
force in this entry NOTE: As a general rule, deadly force may be used without incurring criminal or tort liability when one reasonably believes that one's life or safety is in danger. In some cases, a person's … the use of threats or intimidation for the purpose of gaining control over or preventing resistance from another dead·ly force : force that is intended to cause or that carries a substantial risk of causing death or
Law Reform (UK)
(24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio … See further, ADOPTION; LEGITIMATION; BASTARDY; FUNERAL EXPENSES; also INTEREST and LIMITATIONS. The (English) Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act,1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), confers rights to property belonging to a married woman and
Married women's property
property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- … judgments and orders in all respects as if she was a feme sole (Law Reform (M. W. and Tortfeasors) Act, 1935, s. 1). Except that she cannot be made bankrupt on any judgment or ordr upon a
Remitter of actions to County Court
any action brought in the High Court where (1) the plaintiff's claim is founded either on contract or tort and the amount claimed or remaining in dispute does not exceed 100l., whether the counterclaim (if any) exceeds … against a tenant (or some one claiming by, through, or under him), whose term has expired or been determined or has become liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent, and the action could have been brought in
Damages
Mcgregor 'are the pecuniary compensation, obtainable by success in an action, for a wrong which is either a tort or a breach of contract, the compensation being in the form of a lump sum which is awarded … damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrong doing of another, (b) reparation awarded to the injured through legal remedies, and
Husband and wife
sale, and by s. 184, ibid., in cases where the survival of either husband or wife after the death of the other is uncertain, the younger shall be deemed to have survived the elder. The general rule … of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried
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