Skip to content

Precautions - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Constructive notice

the principle remains that a purchaser will be affected by constructive notice if he omits to take reasonable precautions which are not less required because the law facilitates his disregard of them, or if he obtains actual

Accidental

that a person of ordinary prudence ought, under the circumstances in which it is done, to take reasonable precautions against it, Sukhdev Singh v. Delhi State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi), (2003) 7 SCC 441 (446). (Indian

Accident, Accidental

that a person of ordinary prudence ought, under the circumstances in which it is done, to take reasonable precautions against it. The idea of something fortuitous and unexpected is involved in the word 'accident', Sukhdev Singh v.

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Accident occasioned by negligence

accidental when caused unintentionally and in such circumstances that a person of ordinary prudence would not have taken precautions to prevent its occurrence. In policies of insurance against accident the meaning of 'accident' depends on the context,

Precautionary

Of or pertaining to precaution or precautions as precautionary signals

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

Precautious

Taking or using precaution precautionary

Criminal negligence

Criminal negligence, is the gross and culpable neglect or failure to exercise that reasonable and proper care and precaution to guard against injury either to the public generally or to an individual in particular, which having regard

Improvement of towns

of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public

Mortgage

Such mortgages may and should be registered unless the mortgagee holds the deeds, and in that case the precaution may be useful. Mortgages and charges registered under s. 79 of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, are not

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial