Insuperable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: insuperableInsuperability
The quality or state of being insuperable insuperableness...
Insuperable
Incapable of being passed over or surmounted insurmountable as insuperable difficulties...
force majeure
force majeure [French, superior force] 1 : superior or insuperable force 2 : an event (as war, labor strike, or extreme weather) or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled : fortuitous event compare act of god, inevitable accident ...
Impossible
Not possible incapable of being done of existing etc unattainable in the nature of things or by means at command insuperably difficult under the circumstances absurd or impracticable not feasible...
Inexsuperable
Not capable of being passed over insuperable insurmountable...
Insurmountable
Incapable of being passed over surmounted or overcome insuperable as insurmountable difficulty or obstacle...
Invincible
Incapable of being conquered overcome or subdued unconquerable insuperable as an invincible army or obstacle...
Nonplus
A state or condition which baffles reason or confounds judgment insuperable difficulty inability to proceed or decide puzzle quandary...
Inevitable accident
Inevitable accident, that which cannot be avoided: used in leases together with fire or tempest as a cause of destruction of the demised premises excusing the payment of rent or an omission by the lessee to repair. The expression is also very commonly used in covenants for production of documents, exempting the covenator from liability in the event of destruction by fire or other inevitable accident; but as pointed out by Mr. Davidson, Prec. Of Convg., vol. ii., pt. 1. P. 665, it is not accurate, for such accidents are not ineitable, and 'insuperable' is the better term. The word 'inevitable,' however, is used in the L.P. Act, 1925, s. 64(9), relating to the effect of an undertaking for safe custody and acknowledgment of the right to production of documents.As to ordering particulars of a defence of 'inevitable accident,' see Rumbold v. L.C.C., (1909) 25 TLR 541....
Vis major
Vis major, insuperable accident, irresistible force. See ACT OF GOD.Means 'act of God' is a mere short way of expressing the proposition that a common carrier is not liable for any accident as to which he can show that it is due to natural causes directly and exclusively, without human intervention, and that it could not have prevented by any amount of foresight and pains and care reasonably to be expected for him, Baldeo Narain v. State of Bihar, AIR 1959 Pat 442....
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