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Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...


Executor de son tort.

Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in Law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, and is liable to the extent of the assets which have come to him and to all the trouble of an executorship without any of the profits or advantages; but the doing of acts of necessity or humanity, as locking up the goods or burying the corpse of the deceased, will not amount to such an intermeddling as will charge a man as executor of his own wrong. Such an one cannot bring an action himself in right of the deceased; but actions may be brought against him, 1 Wms. Exors.; and see Peters v. Leeder, (1878) 47 LJ QB 573; A.-G. v. New York Breweries Co., 1899 AC 62. As to his liability in respect of a term of years of which...


toxic tort

toxic tort : a tort in which there is personal injury or property damage due to exposure to toxic substances ...


Personal injuries

Personal injuries, do not mean injuries to the body alone but all injuries to a person other than those which cause death and that the relevant words must be read ejusdem generis with the words 'defamation and assault' and not with the assault alone, M. Veerappa v. Evelyn Sequeira, AIR 1988 SC 506: (1988) 1 SCC 556. [Indian Succession Act, 1925, s. 306]Personal injuries, includes any disease and any impairment of a person's physical or mental condition. [Interest Act, 1978, s. 2 (d)]...


personal injury protection (pip)

personal injury protection (pip) That part of an insurance policy, in many cases a no-fault policy, which provides protection against personal injury and related losses, as opposed to damage to your vehicle, up to a specific per-person dollar amount. PIP may include benefits for medical expenses, loss of work income, and accidental death and funeral expenses. ...


Claim in respect of personal injuries

Claim in respect of personal injuries, means claim for damages for personal injuries. The claim in a statement of claim is that part of the pleading where the relief sought is claimed, be it damages, injunction, specific performance, Burns v. Shuttlehurst, (1999) 1 WLR 1449....


De son tort, executor

De son tort, executor, a stranger who takes upon himself to act as executor. See EXECUTOR DE SON TORT...


Tort feaser

Tort feaser, means who commits a tort; a wrong-doer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1497...


Injury

Injury, any damage done to another, either in his person, rights, reputation, or property, for which an action lies at law.Injury has been defined in s. 44 of the Penal Code as denoting 'any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body mind, reputation or property, S. Harnam Singh v. State (Delhi Admn), AIR 1976 SC 2140 (2145): (1976) 2 SCC 819. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 44)The word 'injury' denotes any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body, mind, reputation or propery. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 44)Injury, Black's Law Dictionary contains the definition for the word 'Injury' (at p. 706 in the 5th Edn.) as 'any wrong or damage done to another either to his person, rights reputation or property'. The alternative meaning given therein is: 'The invasion of any legally protected interest of another'.Injury as 'any harm whatever, illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation or property'. [See Indian Penal Code, 1860] word 'Injury' in s. 23 of the Contract Act shou...


personal injury

personal injury : an injury to one's body, mind, or emotions ;broadly : an injury that is not to one's property ...


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