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Pecuniary liability
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Mortgage
loan, an existing or further debt. Or the performance of an engagement which may give rise to a pecuniary liability. The transferor is called a mortgagor, the principal money an interest of which payment is secured for the
declaration
: a statement made by someone unavailable as a witness that is against that person's own interests (as pecuniary or property interests) or may subject that person to liability compare admission, confession, self-incrimination NOTE: A declaration against
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Interests of the general public
Interests of the general public, is a matter in which a class of the community have a pecuniary or some other interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, … a class of the community have a pecuniary or some other interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 2119. Those interest which concern the public at large, Stroud's
Public interest litigation
enforcement of public interest or general interest in which the public or a class of the community have pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected, Janta Dal v. H.S. Chowdhary, … or a class of the community have pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected, Janta Dal v. H.S. Chowdhary, (1992) 4 SCC 305: (1991) 3 SCR 752.
Marine adventure
exposed to maritime perils; (ii) the earnings or acquisition of any freight, passage money, commission, profit or other pecuniary benefit, or the security for any advances, loans, or disbursements is endangered by the exposure of insurable property … any advances, loans, or disbursements is endangered by the exposure of insurable property to maritime perils; (iii) any liability to a third party may be incurred by the owner of, or other person interested in or responsible
Book of account
not contain any statement of account. So until it is shown that such register also pertained to the pecuniary transactions involving the customers of the hotel the same cannot be treated as a book of accounts. In … as a book of accounts, the entry therein cannot become the sole premise to charge a person with liability, Manish Dixit v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 2001 SC 93 (97): (2001) 1 SCC 596. Evidence Act (1
party
be affected by an action taken esp. by a government or judicial body ;esp : a person whose pecuniary interests are affected by a bankruptcy proceeding 2 : real party in interest in this entry proper party … Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party
Negligence
e.g., Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd., 79 SJ 815. Action by Representatives of Deceased Persons.--An action for pecuniary loss arising from negligence causing death passes to the representative or next of kin of the deceased, by … circumstance of each case. A very convenient classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1) ordinary, which is the
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