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primary liability

primary liability see liability

liability

liability arising from injuries or losses occurring on one's premises primary liability : liability imposed directly on a person because of his

Indemnity

Statute of Frauds in that the latter guarantee contemplates the primary liability of a third person. as pointed out by Anson on

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Guarantee

for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person, whose primary liability to the promisee must exist or be contemplated. [The words

Surety and guarantor

speaking, secondary, and collateral, while that of surety is original, primary and direct. In case of suretyship there is but one … both answerable for debt, default, or miscarriage of another but liability of guarantor is, strictly speaking, secondary, and collateral, while that

Family

SCC 397: (1989) 3 SCR 1010. In its ordinary and primary sense, the term 'family' signifies the collective body of persons … has not a restricted meaning and under the rules imposing liability to pay conservancy tax and water rate liability is imposed

Expenditure

the sense of' paying out or away money is the primary meaning and it is with that meaning that we are … money which has been actually paid out. It covers a liability which has accrued or which has been incurred although it

corporation

or corporation can carry out dealings usually unrelated to its primary business 2 : a corporation formed for purposes of tax … duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability see also pierce compare association, partnership, sole proprietorship close corporation

open

enterable by a registered voter regardless of political affiliation [an primary] 3 a : being in effect or operation [an mine] … danger posed by it, a defendant is usually relieved of liability for failure to warn. 2 : not restricted to a

Money lender

bona fide carrying on any business not having for its primary object the leading of money, in the course of which … 5, c. 21), subjects money-lenders as above defined to the liability of having their contracts judicially varied. Under s. 1, if

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