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Assurance

Assurance, a term used exclusively in respect of a risk on the life of a human being. See INSURANCE.

Adventure

Adventure [fr. advenire, Lat., to come to], the sending to sea of a ship or goods at the risk of the sender.

Administrative act

field (as and when a judge supervises court personnel); an administrative act is often subject to a greater risk of liabilities than an act within the actor's usual field, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 25.

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Safe

Free from harm injury or risk untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury unharmed unhurt secure whole as safe from disease safe from storms

In all respects

wide enough to show that whatever might be done with regard to that car, the owner took the risk of its happening or of its being done. The position, therefore, would be that he should not hand

Insurance transactions

procures such cover for his customers by making use of the supplies of an insurer who assumes the risk insured, Card Protection Pland v. Customs Comrs. (E.C.J.), (1999) 3 WLR 203.

Jeopardy

Jeopardy, means the risk of conviction and punish-ment that a criminal defendant faces at trial. Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial when

Reasonableness of expectation

penal law of the State into account. It is not the expectation of a landlord who takes the risk of prosecution and punishment which the violation of the law involves, but the expectation of the landlord who

Warehouse to warehouse

during which the policy would remain in force and has nothing to do about the type of the risk policy covered, Bihar Supply Syndicate v. Asiatic Navigation, AIR 1993 SC 2054 (2060). [Marine Insurance Act, (11 of

Usura maritima

Usura maritima [f'nus nauticum, Lat.], interest taken on bottomry or respondentia bonds, which is proportioned to the risk, and was not affected by the abolished usury laws, 19 Geo. 3, c. 37; 2 Steph. Com.

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