Vis

Vis [Lat.], any kind of force, violence, or disturbance to person or property. It was a vis armata, i.e. vis cum armis, or vis simplex, i.e. vis sine armis, 1 Reeves, c. 6, p. 322....

Public policy vis-'-vis policy of law

Public policy vis-'-vis policy of law, the term 'public policy' has an entirely different and more intensive meaning from the policy of law. Winfield defined it as a principle of judicial legislation or interpretation founded on the current needs of the community. It does not remain static in any given community and varies from generation to generation, M.K. Usman Koya v. C.S. Santha, AIR 2003 Ker 191....

Vis major force majeure usual

Vis major force majeure usual, the expression 'force majeure' is not a mere French version of the Latin expression 'vis major'. It is undoubtedly a term of wider import. Difficulties have arisen in the past as to what could legitimately be included in 'force majeure'. Judges has agreed that strikes, break-down of machinery, which, though normally not included in 'vis major' are included in 'force majeure'. Where reference is made to 'force majeure', the intention is to save the performing party from the consequences of anything over which he has no control. This is the widest meaning that can be given to 'force majeure', and even if this be the meaning, it is obvious that the condition about 'force majeure' in the agreement was not vague. The use of the word 'usual' makes all the difference, and the meaning of the condition may be made certain by evidence about a force majeure clause, which was in contemplation of parties, Dhanrajamall Gobindram v. Shamji Kalidas, AIR 1961 SC 1285 (192...

vis major

vis major [Latin, literally, greater force] : an overwhelming force ;also : act of god ...

Natura vis maxima

Natura vis maxima [Lat.], the greatest force is that of nature....

Nihil consensui tam contrarium est quam vis atque metus

Nihil consensui tam contrarium est quam vis atque metus [Lat.], nothing is so opposed to consent as force and fear....

Primo excutienda est verbi vis, ne sermonis vitio obstructur oratio, sive lex sine argumentis

Primo excutienda est verbi vis, ne sermonis vitio obstructur oratio, sive lex sine argumentis. Co. Litt. 68, (The full meaning of a word should be ascertained at the outset, in order that the sense may not be lost by defect of expression, and that the law be not without reasons.)The golden rule of construction is that words are to be construed according to their natural meaning, unless such a construction would either render them senseless or would be opposed to the gener scope and intent of the instrument, or unless there be some very cogent reason of convenience in favour of a different interpretation. Per BRAMWELL, B. (3 H&C 46)....

Vis legibus est inimica

Vis legibus est inimica. 3 Inst. 176.-(Violence is inimical to the laws.)...

Vis major

Vis major, insuperable accident, irresistible force. See ACT OF GOD.Means 'act of God' is a mere short way of expressing the proposition that a common carrier is not liable for any accident as to which he can show that it is due to natural causes directly and exclusively, without human intervention, and that it could not have prevented by any amount of foresight and pains and care reasonably to be expected for him, Baldeo Narain v. State of Bihar, AIR 1959 Pat 442....

Vi laica removend'

Vi laica removend', a writ that lies where two persons contend for a church, and one of them enters into it with a great number of laymen, and holds out the other vi et armis; and he that is holden out shall have this writ addressed to the sheriff that he remove the lay force; but the sheriff ought not to remove the incumbent out of the church, whether he is there by right or wrong, but only the force, Fitz. N.B. 54....

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