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Negligence
the event or accident must be of a kind which does not happen in the ordinary course of things if those who have the management and control use due care, Syad Akbar v. State of Karnataka, AIR … or fumes, sewage, vicious or untamed animals, electricity) is an absolute insurer against, and responsible for any damage done owing to the thing escaping, unless, possibly, the damage is due to the plaintiff's act or default, vis
Non-obstante
it. Also, a clause frequent in statutes and letters-patent, importing a licence from the Crown to do a thing, which by Common Law might be done, but, being restrained by Act of Parliament, could not be done
Specific performance
person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on the ground that what is lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and
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Revocation
existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either general, of all acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing, 5 Rep. 90. The word revocation' means annulling, rescinding, withdrawing.
Public Authorities, Protection of
justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of highways, local boards and other public authorities from vexatious actions for things done in pursuance of the Acts. This protection was given by requiring the plaintiff to give notice of action,
ex post facto
ex post facto [Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward] : after the fact : retroactively [cannot judge ex post facto] adj 1 : done, made,
Perfunctory
Done merely to get rid of a duty performed mechanically and as a thing of rote done in a careless and superficial manner characterized by indifference as perfunctory admonitions
Absque hoc
of exception which were made use of in a special traverse; as, the defendant pleads that such a thing was done at B., etc., without this (absque hoc), that it was done at, etc., 1 Saund. 22:
Action
Carter P. Pomoroy Ed., 3d Edn. 1885. Action is the process of doing something, conduct or behaviour; A thing done, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 28.
Similar
something should be done similarly is insufficient by itself to signify the degree of stipulation with which that thing must be done, CIT v. T.V. Sundaram Iyenger and Sons (P) Ltd., AIR 1976 SC 255: (1976) 1
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