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liability
liability pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being liable 2 : something for which one is liable: as a : a financial obligation : debt [tax ] [the bonds are liabilities] compare asset contingent liability : an amount that may or may not be owed depending on the outcome of a contingency (as a cosigner's default on a loan) fixed liability : a liability (as a bond or mortgage) that does not mature for at least one year from the date incurred or from a given date b : accountability and responsibility to another enforceable by civil remedies or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and uncertainty as to which act was the proximate cause of an injury compare concert of action civil liability : liability imposed under c...
Secondary evidence
Secondary evidence, Secondary evidence means and includes:(1) Certified copies given under the provisions hereinafter contained;(2) Copies made from the original by mechanical processes which in themselves insure the accuracy of the copy, and copies compared with such copies;(3) Copies made from or compared with the original;(4) Counterparts of documents as against the parties who did not execute them;(5) Oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen it. [Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 63]That species of proof which is admitted on the loss of primary evidence. There are no degrees of this evidence; for example, if a letter be lost it may be as good as recite it from memory as to produce a copy. It is the province of the judge to decide whether a document produced be original or not, and until he decides it is not, no secondary evidence can be put in. See NOTICE TO ADMIT; NOTICE TO PRODUCE; HEARSAY....
secondary boycott
secondary boycott : a boycott of an employer with which a union does not have a dispute that is intended to induce the employer to cease doing business with another employer with which the union does have a dispute compare primary boycott NOTE: Secondary boycotts are usually illegal under the National Labor Relations Act. ...
secondary meaning
secondary meaning : a developed association in the public's mind between the mark, name, or trade dress of a product and a specific manufacturer originating it that renders the mark, name, or trade dress protectable under trademark law [the general descriptive name of the product acquired secondary meaning] ...
secondary picketing
secondary picketing : the picketing of an employer who conducts business with an employer with whom a union has a dispute NOTE: Secondary picketing that is not for the purpose of informing the public of the dispute violates the Labor Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act. ...
Limited liability
Limited liability. At Common Law every person is liable, upon his contracts, up to the whole amount of his estate, and every partner is so liable upon all the contracts of the partnership. So extensive a liability being apt to prevent persons from engaging in business as partners, the statutes authorizing the construction of railways, etc., have always limited the liability of each shareholder to the amount of the shares held by him. Similar limitations, extending in some cases to double the amount of shares held, have also long been found (though not universally) in the charters of incorporated banks and insurance companies.Companies Acts.--Under the Companies Acts, limited liability means that the members are not liable beyond the unpaid-up part (if any) of the nominal amount of the shares in respect of which they are registered in the books of the company. When a share has been fully paid up, no further liability exists. As to shares which have not been fully paid up, see CONTRIBUTO...
comprehensive general liability insurance
comprehensive general liability insurance : liability insurance for a business that usually covers losses from products liability, premises liability, and some liabilities that the insured assumes under a contract (as a lease) ...
Contingent liability
Contingent liability, as a liability which, by reason of something done by the person bound, will necessarily arise or come into being if one or more of certain events occur or do not occur, Glenister v. Rowe (CA), (1999) 3 WLR 716.Contingent liability, must arise out of an existing or underlying liability, no such liability can exist simply by reason of a claim for costs made in a writ, summons, application or notice of appeal to the judge or to the Court of Appeal, Glenister v. Rowe (CA), (2000) Ch LR 76....
Demand liabilities
Demand liabilities, means liabilities which must be met on demand, and 'time liabilities' means liabilities which are not demand liabilities. [Bank-ing Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), s. 5 (f)]...
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