Hurricane - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hurricaneDenude
To divest of all covering to make bare or naked to strip to divest as to denude one of clothing or lands the hurricane denuded the trees...
Gale
A strong current of air a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane The most violent gales are called tempests...
Hurricane
A violent storm characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind and generally accompanied by rain thunder and lightning especially prevalent in the East and West Indies Also used figuratively...
Hurricano
A waterspout a hurricane...
Act of God
Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is that where the law creates a duty and the party is disabled from performing it, without any default of his own, by the act of God or the King's enemies, the law will excuse him; but when a party by his own contract creates a duty he is bound to make it good, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, Nichols v. Marsland, (1876) 2 Ex D 4. See also Common Carrier, tit. CARRIER.Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91.Means an overwhelming, unpreventable event caused exclusively by forces of nature, such as an earthquake, flood, or tornado. The definition has been statutorily broadened to include all natural phenomena that are exceptional, inevitable, and irresistible, the effects of whi...
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