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Revise

Revise, the word 'revise' meaning 'to re-examine, to review, to correct or to amend the fault', is not hedged or qualified by any condition or limitation, Ram Kanai Jamini Ranjan Pal Pvt. Ltd. v.

Restitutio in integrum

sustained some injury capable of being estimated, in consequence of the contract or transaction, and not through any fault of his own, except in the case of one who is minor xxv. Annorum, who was protected by

Quod remedio destituitur ipsa re valet si culpa absit

culpa absit (Bac. Max. Reg. 9), that which is without remedy avails of itself if there be no fault in the party seek-ing to enforce it.

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Prolixity

1, as to pleadings: in each case the costs may have to be borne by the party in fault.

Pilot

the Common Law rule), owners and masters of ships become liable for damage caused by the ship or fault in navigation, in districts where the employment of a pilot is compulsory, even though the pilot was in

Misdemeanor

Ill behavior evil conduct fault

Period of limitation

not put to any inconvenience or hardship in the prescribed period being shortened by certain exigencies for no fault of his or for reasons beyond his control, Udayan Chinubhai v. R.C. Bali, AIR 1977 SC 2319 (2324):

Mens rea

NISI MENS SIT REA. Although prima facie and as a general rule there must be a mind at fault before there can be a crime, it is not an inflexible rule, and a statute may relate to

Finding mains holding

writer of the following sentence observed the distinctions meticulously. Because we find that the jury's finding of concurrent fault is amply supported by the evidence, we hold that appellee is entitled to full indemnity. In appellate courts,

Marriage

The strictness of Lord Hardwicke's Act led to marriages being annulled through misnomers in the banns by the fault of one party in putting them up. And the requiring of consent not infrequently worked great evil and

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