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Infant
to bet or borrow money. See Milton v. Studd, (1910) 2 KB 118. An infant is liable for torts committed by him unless the tort has arisen out of a contract, see R. Leslie v. Shiell, (1914)
Feres doctrine
Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135 (1950), the case which established the doctrine] : a doctrine in tort law: a member of the military is barred from recovering damages from the government under the Federal Tort
Delictum
Delictum, challenge propter. See CHALLENGE. A delict, tort, wrong, injury or offence. Actions ex facie are such as are founded on a tort, as distinguished from
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tortfeasor
tortfeasor [Anglo-French tortfesor wrongdoer, from tort wrong + fesor faisour doer, maker, from Old French, from fais-, stem of
Obligation
to legal duties arising out of special personal relationship existing, whether by reason of a contract or a tort, or otherwise between two or more individual persons, State of West Bengal v. Iswar Damodar Jew, AIR 1976
Passing off
for himself in a particular trade or business. The action is regarded as an action for deceit. The tort of passing-off involves a misrepresentation made by a trader to his prospective customers calculated to injure, as a
Battery
Police Commissioner, (1969) 1 QB 439; Freeman v. Home Office, (1984) QB 524. Means a crime and a tort involving the actual, intended (or negligent) and direct use of unlawful physical force on a person without his
dangerous instrument
be deemed a dangerous instrument on the basis of how it is used in criminal cases than in tort cases. For example, a sidewalk has been held to be a dangerous instrument in a criminal case in
malicious prosecution
malicious prosecution : the tort of initiating a criminal prosecution or civil suit against another party with malice and without probable cause ;also
fraud
b : the affirmative defense of having acted in response to a fraud 2 : the crime or tort of committing fraud [convicted of securities ] see also misrepresentation NOTE: A tort action based on fraud is
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