Precaution - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: precautionPrecaution against fire
Precaution against fire, means precautions against the occurrence or outbreak of fire, and the words would not in their literal interpretation, cover pre-cautions against the consequence of fire, Emperor v. Hussain Ibrahim, AIR 1943 Bom 5: (1943) ILR Bom 92....
Precaution
Previous caution or care caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good as his life was saved by precaution...
Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform in the particular 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 want of ordinary diligence; (2) slight, the want of great diligence; and (3) gross, the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow Corporation v. Taylor, (1922) 1 AC 44. There is also a peculiar duty to take precaution in the case of dangerous Articles, see Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 AC 640. This case should be distinguished from the principle in Fletche...
Precautionary
Of or pertaining to precaution or precautions as precautionary signals...
Rash act
Rash act, a rash act is primarily an over hasty act. It is opposed to a deliberate act. Still a rash act can be a deliberate act in the sense that it was done without due care and caution. Culpable rashness lies in running the risk of doing an act with recklessness and with indifference as to the consequences. Criminal negligence is the failure to exercise duty with reasonable and proper care and precaution guarding against injury to the public generally or to any individual in particular. It is the imperative duty of the driver of a vehicle to adopt such reasonable and proper care and precaution, Mohd. Aynuddin v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 2000 SC 2511 (2512): (2000) 7 SCC 72. (Indian Penal Code, s. 304A)...
peculiar risk doctrine
peculiar risk doctrine : a doctrine that renders an employer (as a general contractor) liable for injury caused by an independent contractor if the employer failed to take reasonable precautions against a risk particular to the employee's work that the employer should have recognized ...
unavoidable accident
unavoidable accident : an accident that is not proximately caused by the negligence of any party or that is unforeseeable or not preventable by exercise of reasonable precautions and for which liability based on fault is not imposed compare act of god ...
Firewarden
An officer who has authority to direct in the extinguishing of fires or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires called also fireward...
Precautional
Precautionary...
Precautious
Taking or using precaution precautionary...
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