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Fer' natur', animals

the subject of larceny [ss. 1 (3), (4)]. With regard to injuries inflicted by savage animals and the responsibility of their owner therefor, if a man be possessed of an animal absolutely fer' natur', as the tiger,

Financial year

beginning on the 1st April and ending on the 31st March of the next following year, Maharashtra Fiscal Responsibility and Budgetary Management Act, 2005, s. 2(b). Means the year beginning on the Ist April and ending on

Hire

of cattle, warehousemen, forwarding merchants, and wharfingers. They are bound to use ordinary diligence, and of course are responsible for losses by ordinary negligence. The locatio operis mercium vehendarum, or the carriage of goods for hire. In

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Liable

Liable, means 'Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution..... Obligated: accountable for or chargeable with. Condition of being

Respondeat superior

agency, Perdue v. Mitchell, 373 So 2d 650 (1979). Respondeat superior. 4 Inst. 114.--(Let the principal be held responsible.) The person directing an unlawful act to be done by his servant or agent is answerable as if

Oath

pledge by the person taking it that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of responsibility to God.' Similarly an affirmation in lieu of oath binds a person 'promises and binds himself to bear

Owner

a company, any of its directors, managers, secretaries or other officers who is directly incharge of, and is responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company. [National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995 (27

Passengers

may quit it if he has an opportunity; and he is not required to take upon himself any responsibility as to the conduct of the ship; if he incurs any responsibility, and perform extraordinary services, in relieving

Reasonable doubt

free from a zest for abstract speculation. To constitute 'reasonable doubt', it must be free from an over-emotional response. A reasonable doubt is not an imaginary, trivial or a merely possible doubt; but a fair doubt based

Relator

plaintiff in an information in Chancery, where the rights of the Crown were not immediately concerned, who was responsible for costs; he must have given the solicitor a written authority to file the information, 15 & 16

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