Wrongdoer - Law Dictionary Search Results
Remoteness
a wrong and the injury, as cause and effect, whereby the party injured cannot claim compensation from the wrongdoer. Where the damage sustained by the plaintiff is neither the necessary nor the probable result of the defendant's
Presumptive title
the absence of any satisfactory proof to the contrary, will sustain an action for a tresspass by a wrongdoer, and will indeed be strengthened, by lapse of time, into a title complete and indefeasible. This assumption is
Possession follows title
such a presumption can accrue only in favour of a rightful owner and not in favour of a wrongdoer. The latter can acquire a title only by actual physical possession, Nagorao v. Jageshwar, AIR 1944 Nag 20:
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Ouster
sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carry-ing with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him that has a right to
Omnia pr'sumuntur contra spoliatorem
Omnia pr'sumuntur contra spoliatorem, (All things are presumed against a wrongdoer.) See Armory v. Delamirie, (1722) 1 Str 504; 1 Smith L.C.; Broom's Leg. Max.
Marque, law of
one who has been wronged and is unable to receive ordinary justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer (if they can be found within one's own precinct) in satisfaction for the wrong, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
Doctrine of pari delicto
Doctrine of pari delicto, The doctrine of pari delicto is not designed to reward the 'wrongdoer' or to penalize the 'wronged', by denying to the victim of exploitation access to justice. The doctrine is attracted only...
In odium spoliatoris omnia prasumuntur
In odium spoliatoris omnia prasumuntur [Lat.], all things are presumed against a wrongdoer.
False imprisonment
party as well by removing the actual confinement for the present by habeas corpus, as by subjecting the wrongdoer to an action of trespass, etc., usually called an action of false imprisonment, on account of the damage
Entry
the five species of ouster-viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon
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