Impossibility - Law Dictionary Search Results
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
a tenancy can never arise; for whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simple, so this
Proof
Proof, does not mean proof to rigid mathematical demonstration, because that is impossible; it must mean such evidence as would induce a reasonable man to come to a particular conclusion, Hawkins
Cy-pres
to execute it, though not in mode, yet in substance. If the mode should become by subsequent circumstances impossible, the general rule is not to be defeated, if it can in any other way be obtained. Where
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Consideration
is not necessary that the consideration and promise should be equivalent in actual value, for it would be impossible precisely to determine whether, in a given case, the consideration were adequate, without a psychological investigation into the
Condition
bylaw according to the nature of the transaction. A peculiarity of conditions precedent is that an illegal or impossible condition will, as a rule and excepting bequests of personalty (Williams on Executors), avoid the obligation which has
Civil Law
been extremely simple; very few relics of it, however, have been preserved, and among them it is almost impossible to distinguish the genuine from the spurious. The Leges Reg' have been edited by Lipsius and other men
Deed
the last or peroration-clause in a deed-poll. In any case, even if there be no date, or an impossible date, the deed takes effect from its actual delivery, of which extrinsic evidence is admissible. The parties are
Sealed container
Sealed container, means a container which is 'so closed that access is impossible without breaking the fastening, CST v. G.G. Industries, (1968) 21 STC 63 (SC). Sealed containers, 'sealed Container' merely
excuse
under the law from an obligation, duty, or contractual liability compare act of god, force majeure, fortuitous event, impossibility of performance b : a circumstance (as a physical threat) that grants immunity for otherwise tortious or criminal
Child-bearing
of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the administration fo estates; there is no legal impossibility in a woman 100 years old bearing a child; see Farwell on Powers, p. 295 and cases there
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