Mourn - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mourn Page: 2Mourning
The act of sorrowing or expressing grief lamentation sorrow...
Nymphalis
The type genus of the Nymphalidae including the mourning cloak butterfly Nymphalis antiopa...
Rueful
Causing one to rue or lament woeful mournful sorrowful...
Planxty
An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp sometimes of a mournful character...
Regret
Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past with a wish that it had been different a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing grief sorrow especially a mourning on account of the loss of some joy advantage or satisfaction...
Lugubrious
Mournful indicating sorrow often ridiculously or feignedly doleful woful pitiable as a whining tone and a lugubrious look...
Sackcloth
Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of coarse cloth anciently a cloth or garment worn in mourning distress mortification or penitence...
Sigh born
Sorrowful mournful...
Annus luctus
Annus luctus, the year of mourning, during which the widow, by the ordinances of the Civil Law, could not marry, to prevent the inconvenience of a widow bearing a child which, by the period of gestation, might be the child either of her deceased or her present husband, Cod. 5, 9, 2....
Impossibility
Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter has perished before date of contract, or never existed [see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 6; and Conturier v. Hastie, (1852) 8 Ex 43 & HLC 673]; but where the contract operating as a transfer of real property, e.g., as a demise, is to do a thing which is possible in itself, but which becomes impossible, he will be liable for the breach; thus, where a lessee covenants to repair and to leave in repair the demised premises he is not discharged from his liability because they happen to be destroyed [see Bullock v. Dommitt, (1796) 6 TR 650]; or requisitioned by the military, Whitehall Court Ltd. v. Etlinger, (1920) 1 KB 680.The non-performance of a contract which arises from an act of the law having rendered performance impossible is excused, see Baily v. De Crespigny, (1869) LR 4 QB 180; Re Shipto...
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