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survival action
Matched in: Term survival action
survival statute
Matched in: Term survival statute
Law Reform (UK)
Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his
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wrongful death action
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Actio personalis moritur cum persona.
person after the commencement of the Act all causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against or for the benefit of his estate. By s. 1 (2) the damages are limited in certain
Abatement
not become abated by marriage, death or bankruptcy of any of the parties if the cause of action survives, but in any of such cases the Court or a judge may order the successor in interest to
Exemplary damages
the Court would not consider excessive had they been given by the jury. Where a cause of action survives against or for the benefit of a deceased person's estate, the damages recoverable shall not include any exemplary
Married women's property
Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, … his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in
Right to sue
rent Control Act, 1958, s. 14(1)(e)] (ii) The term 'right to sue' must be equated with 'cause of action', unless the context indicates otherwise, Gurdit Singh v. Munsha Singh, AIR 1977 SC 640: (1977) 1 SCC 791: … do not bind the representatives of the promisor, nor do they create in them a right that can survive the death of the promisor, Phool Rani v. Naubat Rai Ahluwalia, AIR 1973 SC 2110: (1973) 1 SCC
Chattels or catals
which if they are injuriously withheld from him he has, in general, no other remedy than by personal action (see TROVER), while a mixed action of ejectment (q.v.), in which the plaintiff could recover the specific property … later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the
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