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injuria absque damno

injuria absque damno [Latin, injury without damage] : a wrong that causes no damage sustaining an action for relief [the lack of a warning label on the electric broom…is at best injuria absque damno "Lee v. Regina Corp., 253 F. Supp. 825 (1966)"] called also injuria absque damnum compare damnum absque injuria ...


damnum absque injuria

damnum absque injuria : a loss for which the law provides no means of recovery compare injuria absque damno ...


injuria

injuria pl: injurias [Latin, unlawful conduct, unjust treatment] : invasion of another's rights for which one may bring an action ...


Damnum absque injuria

Damnum absque injuria, means if the law gives no remedy, there is 'damnum absque injuria' or damage without the right to recompense, Halsbury's Laws of England 12(1), para 802, p. 264.Damnum absque injuri', [a loss without a wrongful act). Loss without such injury as would give rise to an action for damages against the offending party. This is not actionable. Damnum sine injuri' esse potest, Lofft, 112. Thus, if I have a mill, and a neighbour builds another mill upon his own land, per quod the profit of my mill is diminished, yet no action lies against him, for every one may lawfully erect a mill upon his own ground; though if I have a mill by prescription on my own land, and another erects a new mill, which draws away some portion of the stream from mine, so as to diminish its former power, an action of trespass on the case will lie against him; and if I build a house on the edge of my lands, my neighbour may at any time within twenty years block out my light by any erection he please...


De injuria sua propria absque tali causa

De injuria sua propria absque tali causa (of his own wrong, without any such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a particular stage of the pleadings, was of frequent occurrence. It always tendered issue; but, on the other hand, differed (like many of the general issues) from the common form of a traverse, by denying in general and summary terms, and not in the words of the allegation traversed.This species of traverse occurred in the replication in actions of trespass, trespass on the case (including a species of assumpsit), and in the plea in bar in replevin, but was not used in any other stages of the pleadings, See Steph. On Plead.All the advantages of this replication were obtained in every case by joining issue, as provided by the C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 79, now replaced by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX.,...


Injuria

Injuria. Injury; a wrongful act done. See DAMNUM ABSQUE INJURIA....


Jus ex injuria non oritur

Jus ex injuria non oritur [Lat.], A right does not arise out of an injury.Jus ex injuria non oritur.--A right cannot arise to any one out of his own wrong...


volenti non fit injuria

volenti non fit injuria : to one who is willing no harm is done used as a common-law maxim expressing the principle that one is not injured when a risk is voluntarily assumed compare assumption of risk ...


Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaneat impunita, quod alias non concederetur

Aliquid conceditur ne injuria remaneat impunita, quod alias non concederetur [Lat.], Something is conceded, which otherwise would not be conceded, lest an injury should remain unpunished...


Commodum ex injuria Sua memo habere debet

Commodum ex injuria Sua memo habere debet, convenience cannot accrue to a party from his own wrong. In other words, no one can be allowed to benefit from his own wrongful act, Mrutunjay Pani v. Narmada Bala Sasmal, AIR 1961 SC 1353 (1355): (1962) 1 SCC 290.--Jenk. Cent. 161.--(No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong.)...


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