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Force majeure

Force majeure, irresistible compulsion, coercion diplomatically recognized as irresistible, Concise Oxford Dict. Compare ACT OF GOD; RESTRAINT OF PRINCES. An event or effect that can be neither anticipated no controlled, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 657. The...

Dealer

or selling goods not as an agent simpliciter on behalf of the disclosed principal but as a principal vis-a-vis its customers, Bagal Kot Cement Co. v. State of Mysore, (1976) 1 SCC 336: AIR 1976 SC 357

Any person

[Gold (Control) Act 1968, s. 69(6)] Any person, in view of changes in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 vis-'-vis the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 is attributed having regard to the context in which they have been used

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recidivist

recidivist : an habitual criminal recidivist adj re·cid·i·vis·tic [ri-si-də-vis-tik] adj

indivisible

indivisible : consisting of one whole whose parts cannot be divided or treated individually [an obligation] in·di·vis·i·bil·i·ty [-vi-zə-bi-lə-tē] n in·di·vis·i·bly adv

advise

advise ad·vised ad·vis·ing vt 1 : to give advice to : counsel [ them to draw up a will] 2 : to give information or notice to [ them of their rights] vi 1 : to...

Restitutio in integrum

own carelessness. The following are the chief cases in which a restitutio might be decreed:- The case of vis et metus. When a man had acted under the influence of force or reasonable fear caused by the

Negligence

done owing to the thing escaping, unless, possibly, the damage is due to the plaintiff's act or default, vis major, or the act of God, or under statutory sanction positively enjoining the act causing damage; even in

Digammate

Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound as the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek is

vice

vice 1 : a moral fault or failing 2 : defect 3 : immoral activity (as prostitution) [vīs, vī-sē] prep [Latin, ablative of vic- place, turn] : in the place of [I will preside, the absent...

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