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Volenti non fit injuria

Volenti non fit injuria. Plow. 501.-(Where the sufferer is willing no injury is done.) See this maxim criticized by Lord Esher in Yarmouth v. France, (1887) 19 QBD at p. 653, and by Lord Watson in Smith v. Baker, 1891, AC (355). The question is one for the jury, Dublin, etc., Railway Co. v. Slattery, (1878) 3 App Cas 1155. For a recent application of the maxim, see Herd v. Weardale, etc., Co., 195, AC 67.Consent or 'leave and licence' may be said to be a defence in actions of tort or prosecutions (see Archbold, Cr. Pr.), where the consent is to the specific injury or act, unless the act amounts to the infliction of a serious physical injury or where the rights of the public as well as the individual sustaining harm have intervened. The public are interested in preventing one of their number from grievous bodily harm and from exhibitions which alarm the public conscience, such as prize-fights without gloves, duels, etc., and see LIBEL.The maxim has also been invoked in cases where the p...

Bovate

An oxgang or as much land as an ox can plow in a year an ancient measure of land of indefinite quantity but usually estimated at fifteen acres...

Balk

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows or at the end of a field a piece missed by the plow slipping aside...

Soam

A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow...

Claim

Claim [fr. clamer, Fr.; clamo,Lat., to call], a challenge of interest of anything which is in another's possession, or at least out of a man's own possession, as claim by charter, descent, etc., Plow, 359 a. Any assertion of a right to a remedy, relief or property, either general, or before a tribunal, a pleading in an action, see County Courts Act, 1934, and STATEMENT OF CLAIM.Means 'a demand for something as due' or 'to seek or ask for on the ground of right', Hameedia Hardware Stores v. B. Mohan Lal Sowcar, (1988) 3 SCR 384: (1988) 2 SCC 513: AIR 1988 SC 1060 (1068). [T.N. Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act (18 of 1960), s. 10 (3)(a)(iii)]1. The aggregate of operative facts giving rise to a right enforceable by a court. 2. The assertion of an existing right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 240.Claim, the natural construction of the words taken in context is that 'claim' is referring to an order for costs in the current proceedings against the claimant, rather than a hypothe...

Breastplow

A kind of plow driven by the breast of the workman used to cut or pare turf...

Snowplow

An implement operating like a plow but on a larger scale for clearing away the snow from roads railways etc...

Plough

See Plow...

Clevis

A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow with the two ends perforated to receive a pin used on the end of the tongue of a plow wagen etc to attach it to a draft chain whiffletree etc called also clavel clevy...

Shim

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds...

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