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The destruction of ones self self murder suicide...
Self destructive
Destroying or tending to destroy ones self or itself rucidal...
Self preservation
The preservation of ones self from destruction or injury...
Complete destruction
Complete destruction, in Article 592 of American Jurisprudence, the statement of law on the consequences of complete destruction of a building is stated as under:592. Complete destruction. - The common-law rule that a lessee is not relieved of his obligation to pay rent through the accidental destruction of the building demised to him presupposes that some part of the premises remains in existence for occupation by the tenant, irrespective of the destruction. If the destruction of the premises is complete - nothing remaining, the subject-matter or thing leased no longer existing then the liability of the tenant for rent ceases or extinguishes. ... Thus, it has been held that the destruction of the property extinguishes the liability for rent, as under a lease of a river front and landing consisting of a narrow footing at the base of a bluff without any wharf, dock, or pier, where the unprecedented ravages of the river effectually took away the use of the landing by washing away all but...
Destruction of buildings
Destruction of buildings, The consequence of 'des-truction of buildings' has been discussed by R. E. Megarry and H. W. R. Wade in The Law of Real Property as under:Destruction of buildings.--If there is a lease of land and buildings, the destruction of the buildings does not affect the continuance of the lease, so that the lessee remains entitled to possession of the land and any buildings that may subsequently be erected on it. But the complete destruction of the whole of the dismissed premises, as where an upper-floor flat is destroyed by fire, produces problems that yet have to be solved. One view is that the tenancy would come to an end, and with its liability on the covenants, for there would no longer be any physical entity which the tenant could hold of his landlord for any term, and there can hardly be tenure without a tenement. Another view is that the tenancy (and with its liability on the covenants) would endure in the air space formerly occupied by the flat, and would thus ...
Destructive insects
Destructive insects. In order to prevent the introduction and spread of any insect, fungus, or other pest destructive to agricultural or horticultural crops, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may, by virtue of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1907, make orders and exercise powers similar to those given by the (English) Destructive Insects Act, 1877. The (English) Forestry Act, 1919, transfers these powers to the Forestry Commissioners in so far as they relate to timber and forest trees. See COLORADO BEETLE....
Destructive
Causing destruction tending to bring about ruin death or devastation ruinous fatal productive of serious evil mischievous pernicious often with of or to as intemperance is destructive of health evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth...
Destructibility
The quality of being capable of destruction destructibleness...
Weapons of mass destruction
Weapons of mass destruction, means any biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 2(p)]...
self-insure
self-insure : to insure by self-insurance (as in workers' compensation) [an employer wishing to its liability "Pennsylvania Statutes"] vi : to use self-insurance [a governmental agency that s] self-in·sur·er n ...
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