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sublimit

sublimit : a liability limit in an insurance policy for a particular risk (as

unified transfer tax

also unified credit NOTE: The unified transfer tax system creates liability for a single tax rather than separate liability for a

partner

partner in this entry general partner : a partner whose liability for partnership debts and obligations is unlimited compare limited partner

vicarious

on one person in place of another see also vicarious liability at liability vi·car·i·ous·ly adv vi·car·i·ous·ness n

Hire purchase

the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract In the United States

Act of God

it is an act of God which will relief from liability, howsoever trivial or common its cause may have been. If

Assignment

v. Dobie, (1838) 3 Y.& C. 96, and thus escape liability on the covenants in the lease, though he is usually

Audit

bys. 152. Auditors may not be protected by Articles against liability for loss except by their own default. As to an

Autretois acquit and autrefois convict

are concerned with the judicial determination of an alleged criminal liability and in the case of conviction with the substitution of

Bailment

be paid to the bailee. For the history of the liability of carriers, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423,

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