Pure Risk - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pure riskpure risk
pure risk : a risk that can only result in loss compare speculative risk ...
speculative risk
speculative risk : a risk that may result in either a loss or a gain compare pure risk ...
Pure
Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter free from mixture or combination clean mere simple unmixed as pure water pure clay pure air pure compassion...
assumption of risk
assumption of risk :a doctrine that a person may in advance relieve another person of the obligation to act towards him or her with due care and may accept the chance of being injured ;also : an affirmative defense that the plaintiff cannot receive compensation for injuries from the defendant because the plaintiff freely and knowingly assumed the risk of injury and relieved the defendant of the obligation to act with reasonable care compare contributory negligence at negligence, volenti non fit injuria NOTE: Assumption of risk may be express or may be implied from the plaintiff's words and actions. Assumption of risk has been abolished in certain types of cases, such as workers' compensation cases. ...
pure
pure 1 a : unmixed with any other matter b : free from dirt or taint 2 : being thus and nothing other [a no-fault compensation system] pure·ly adv pure·ness n ...
Assumption of the risk
Assumption of the risk, means the act or an instance of a prospective plaintiff's taking on the risk of loss, injury, or damage e.g. the skydiver's assumption of the risk, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 121....
pure race
pure race : of, relating to, or being a recording act in which the first party to properly record documentation of an interest in property has priority regardless of notice of other claims [a pure race statute] compare notice, race-notice ...
pure speech
pure speech : the communication of ideas through spoken or written words or through conduct limited in form to that necessary to convey the idea compare commercial speech, symbolic speech NOTE: Pure speech is accorded the highest degree of protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...
assigned risk
assigned risk : a poor risk (as an accident-prone driver) that insurance companies would normally reject but are forced to insure by state law ...
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 ...
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