Mental Distress - Law Dictionary Search Results
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mental distress : emotional distress ...
emotional distress
emotional distress : a highly unpleasant emotional reaction (as anguish, humiliation, or fury) which results from another's conduct and for which damages may be sought called also emotional harm mental anguish mental distress mental disturbance mental suffering see also outrage, zone of danger NOTE: Damages may be recoverable for emotional distress that is caused intentionally or negligently. Recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress often requires that the plaintiff suffer a physical injury as well. ...
infliction of emotional distress
infliction of emotional distress :the tort of intentionally or negligently causing emotional distress called also infliction of mental distress see also emotional distress ...
mental anguish
mental anguish : a high degree of emotional pain, distress, torment, or suffering that may aggravate a crime or be a subject of an action for damages or wrongful death : emotional distress ...
mental disturbance
mental disturbance : emotional distress ...
mental suffering
mental suffering : emotional distress ...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
distressfulness
the quality of causing mental anguish...
mental disease
mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or emotional processes and internal behavioral control and that is not manifest only in repeated criminal or antisocial conduct ;broadly : mental illness NOTE: Mental disease and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental disease has developed a settled meaning in criminal law while mental illness is often explained or defined by reference to the medical community's understanding of the term. ...
Second distress
Second distress. A landlord has a power at common law to make a second distress for the same rent (Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant), but a second distress for the same rent is not to be made if there was enough which might have been taken on a first distress, Hutchins v. Chambers, (1758) 1 Burr 579....
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