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To put an end to, to nullify or to become void.
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Shields public officials from being sued for official acts without regard to motive.
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Offences in which it is not open to a person to avoid liability on the ground that she or he acted under a reasonable mistake of fact which, if the facts had been as the accused believed them to be, would have made his act innocent.
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Intentional conduct or an abnormally dangerous condition that cannot be maintained without injury to property, no matter what precautions are taken.
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An absolute defence to an otherwise defamatory statement because of the venue or context in which the statement was made.
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Physical or nonphysical misuse or maltreatment or use or treatment so as to injure, hurt, or damage.
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The use of legal process in an improper or unauthorized manner.
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An unlooked for mishap or occurrence.
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Actio Personalis Moritur Cum Persona start learning
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Latin: any right of action dies with the person.
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An event which is caused solely by the effect of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever.
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Professionals uniquely skilled in the application of mathematics to risk management, contingent events and opportunity.
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Actus Dei Nemini Facit Injuriam start learning
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Latin: An act of God causes legal injury to no one.
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A person who has received the power to act on behalf of another, binding that other person as if he or she were themselves making the decisions.
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Damages awarded by a court to reflect the exceptional harm done to a plaintiff of a tort action.
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Latin: The catch-all phrase in trespass pleadings to refer to all such other harms and damages that may have been caused by the alleged trespasser other than those specified.
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One who follows up cases of accident and tries to induce the injured party to bring suit for damages.
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An opening through which light has flowed uninterrupted for twenty years and which can, in some circumstances, support a claim for nuisance if blocked.
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The touching of another person with an intent to harm, without that person's consent.
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An act done by a person who is not conscious of what he is doing.
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The removal of land from one real property and its deposit on the property of another, by the sudden action of nature (eg. water or volcano).
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A person who, on more than one occasion, incites litigation or spreads false rumours.
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Offensive and intentional contact, direct or indirect, which causes injury.
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Latin: the good family man.
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A test in tort law linking the tort and the damages (aka causation), which are stated as: "but for" the defendant's negligence, the plaintiff would not have been injured.
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A normally humourous and pictorial parody which by caricature, analogy or ludicrous juxtaposition sharpens the public view of a contemporary event, political or social trend.
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The real, effective cause of damage.
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Latin: the immediate, not the remote cause, is to be considered.
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An intervening cause of loss which, though not direct, may nonetheless contribute to the loss.
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The cause and effect relationship between an act or omission and damages alleged in a tort or personal injury action.
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A document in civil law jurisdictions that purports to be a compendium of the applicable law as it pertains to the citizen.
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A body of law derived and evolved directly from Roman Law, the primary feature of which is that laws are struck in writing; codified, and not determined, as in the common law, by the opinions of judges based on historic customs.
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A civil law requirement to compensate another because of an unlawful injury to his/her person or property.
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When different persons combine their lawsuits into one opposed to a common defendant, because the facts are sufficiently similar.
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Commodum Ex Injuria Sua Nemo Habere Debet start learning
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Latin: a wrongdoer should not be enabled by law to take any advantage from his actions.
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A feature of a group of people seeking to be certified for a class action, that there are questions of law and fact common to the prospective group (class).
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A privilege which protects defamatory statements if made in good faith to an individual with an interest in the statement.
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Judge-declared law. Law which exists and applies to a group on the basis of customs and legal precedents developed over hundreds of years in Britain.
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A species of malice relevant to defamation proceedings, which focuses on the defendant's feelings towards the plaintiff, and which may give rise to punitive damages.
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A public nuisance; an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public.
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An tort law analysis which considers the negligence of the victim and which may lead to a reduction of the award against the defendant, proportionate to the contribution of the victim’s negligence.
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Damages that compensate the injured victim for injuries actually endured.
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A method of payment of legal fees represented by a percentage of an award.
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That body of law which regulates the formation and enforcement of contracts.
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The right of a person who has discharged a common liability to recover proportionate share from the other(s) that were so liable.
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The negligence of a person which, while not being the primary cause of a tort, nevertheless combined with the act or omission of the primary defendant to cause the tort, and without which the tort would not have occurred.
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Force used upon those over which an individual generally has guardian responsibilities, used to remove a dependent from a particular situation or to secure compliance with instructions.
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Reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons.
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A legal theory, companion to the thin skull rule, which limits a tort defendant’s exposure to a plaintiff’s injuries to the plaintiff’s condition at the time of the tort.
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A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another’s fault or negligence.
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Latin: harm absent a wrong.
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Latin: wrongful injury to the property of another.
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Force which creates a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury.
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Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions and of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem.
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An intentional act or omission in the course of trade or commerce that has the tendency or capacity to mislead or create the likelihood of deception.
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An attack on the good reputation of a person, by slander or libel.
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Deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the publisher knows to be false.
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The individual, company or organization who defends a legal action taken by a plaintiff and against whom the court has been asked to order damages or specific corrective action redress some type of unlawful or improper action alleged by the plaintiff.
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Ignoring a situation known to exist.
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A civil law term which imposes liability on a person who causes injury to another, or for injury caused by a person or thing under his custody.
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A common law action similar to conversion and also involving the possession of property by the plaintiff may also ask for damages for the duration of the possession.
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An insurance contract in which the insurer agrees to pay money or to other benefits in the event that the person insured becomes disabled.
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A renunciation or refusal of rights or liability which might otherwise fall upon the person.
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Animals which are of a nature easily tamed and may be readily domesticated.
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The degree of care which a person of ordinary prudence would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.
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A legal obligation for a person to conduct himself to a certain standard failing which he could be liable for negligence if damages occur in the result.
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An obligation to conform to a certain standard of conduct for the protection of another against an unreasonable risk of harm.
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A tort-feasor or a wrongdoer takes his victim as he finds him.
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That which excuses from fault; justifies a wrong action.
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Ex Turpi Causa Non Oritur Actio start learning
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Latin: Of an illegal cause there can be no lawsuit.
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A comment made which though defamatory, is not actionable as it is an opinion on a matter of public interest.
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The intentional and total confinement of a person against his will without lawful justification.
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Intentional and total imprisonment of a person against his or her will and without lawful justification.
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A breach of duty or negligence and, in some circumstances, the errors or omissions of others or of things under a person's control.
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Latin: wild in nature; usually in reference to wild animals such as monkeys or lions.
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Public safety officers have no claim for injuries suffered during the performance of their duties on the premises of a hazard, even if intentionally created.
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French for an act of God; an inevitable, unpredictable act of nature, not dependent on an act of man.
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Latin: theft or a thing stolen...
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When surgery is performed by an unauthorized substitute surgeon.
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A psychiatric tool charting stages of dementia.
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An action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another.
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Damages sought for loss of enjoyment of life.
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A principle of tort law which requires an individual to take every action at hand to avoid an accident where peril to another human being is otherwise imminent.
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An individual who lacks the ability to meet essential requirements for physical health, safety, or self-care.
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An individual who has a significant risk of personal harm based upon an inability to adequately provide for nutrition, health, housing, or physical safety.
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Contract with a third-party to perform another's obligations if called upon to do so by the third-party, whether the other has defaulted or not.
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In Jure Non Remota Causa Sed Proxima Spectatur start learning
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Latin: In law the near cause is looked to, not the remote one.
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In defamation, the inferential, inherent or secondary meaning of words.
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Latin: both parties are equally at fault.
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A judicial finding that a fault has occurred but the court is unable to locate the source, to pinpoint a tort-feasor.
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Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress start learning
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The malicious and outrageous causation of severe emotional distress.
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A wilfully false statement that comes to and causes mental anguish to another.
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Torts actionable upon evidence of an intent to cause harm on another, such as assault, trespass, false imprisonment, private nuisance, defamation or invasion of privacy.
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A privacy tort; intentionally intruding upon the seclusion or private affairs or concerns of another if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
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Joint and Several Liability start learning
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Liability of more than one person for which each person is liable to pay back the entire amount of a debt or damages.
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A section of a 1920 American law which gave injured sailors, or their estate, the right to sue the employer if the injury or death resulted from the employer's negligence.
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Procedurals and hearings before a court, or a tribunal or administrative board that performs a judicial function
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A group of citizens randomly selected from the general population and brought together to assist justice by deciding which version, in their opinion, constitutes 'the truth' given different evidence by opposing parties.
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Latin: a legal right or entitlement cannot arise from an unlawful act or omission.
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An answer or defence to an allegation of wrongful conduct that the act or omission, though admittedly committed, was not wrongful in all the circumstances.
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An allegation that a legal right is stale under the circumstances and noi longer able to support enforcement.
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Last Clear Chance Doctrine start learning
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A principle of tort law which requires an individual to take every action at hand to avoid an accident where peril to another human being is otherwise imminent.
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Learned Intermediary Doctrine start learning
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A doctrine of American personal injury law which places upon a prescribing physician the primary responsibility to warn patients of the hazards of prescribed pharmaceutical products.
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Latin: the place of the wrong.
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A legal obligation, either due now or at some time in the future.
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Written form of defamation such as on the Internet, in a newspaper or a letter.
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Damages claimed based on alleged detrimental alterations of a person's life or lifestyle or a person's inability to participate in the activities or pleasures of life that were formerly enjoyed.
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Lubricum Linquae Non Facile Trahendum Est In Poena start learning
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Latin: the law tends to overlook rash or inconsiderate language spoken in the heat of the moment.
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An individual who, though once of sound mind, can no longer manage his person or his affairs.
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An intentional tort which redresses losses flowing from an unjustified prosecution.
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Latin: animals which are now generally domestic, presumed gentle and readily tamed, such as dogs, cats, cows and horses.
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Negligence of a health care professional in the diagnosis, care, and treatment of a patient.
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Facts that, while not negating a wrongful action, tend to show that the defendant may have had some grounds for acting the way he/she did.
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The obligation upon a person who sues another for damages, to minimize - mitigate - those damages, as far as reasonable.
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Necessitas Indicit Privilegium Quoad Jura Privata start learning
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From necessity spring privileges upon private rights.
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A breach of a duty to take care.
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Nemo Debet Locupletari Ex Aliena Jactura start learning
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Latin: no one should be enriched by another's loss.
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A recognizable psychiatric illness caused by the breach of duty.
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Latin: Not of sound mind.
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Excessive or unlawful use of one’s property to the extent of unreasonable annoyance or inconvenience to a neighbor or to the public.
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The employment and function assessment and treatment of post-injury, illness or disability.
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Liability of a person who controls land or building(s) in regards to damages caused to others who enter thereon.
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Making some false representation likely to induce a person to believe that the goods or services are those of another.
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Damage to property occurring as a result of an accident at sea.
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Per Quod Consortium Amisit start learning
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Latin: whereby he loses the company of his wife.
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Injury to the natural body of a person.
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Expenses reasonably necessary to maintain health and well-being, to enjoy life's activities, and the capacity to earn money.
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When a tort has been committed on foreign soil, it cannot be brought on home soil unless it was actionable if it had of occurred on home soil, and without legal justification at the place it occurred.
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A proportionate share settlement agreement
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Dogs which exhibit appearance and physical characteristics of any of a pit bull terrier or Staffordshire, American or American Staffordshire bull terrier.
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A selection of a venue to serve as the nexus of a tort when the tort evolves from a series of events, and for the purposes of establishing liability that may flow from the alleged tort.
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The person who initiates, who brings or files a case with a court; who sues.
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Expressions which comment on government action rather than the private conduct of an individual.
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A mental disorder that results from an extreme traumatic stress.
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The liability of an occupier of real property towards injury to others.
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A method of acquiring or extinguishing rights through the inaction of the legal owner.
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An unreasonable interference with the use or enjoyment of land.
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The most direct, effective or substantial cause of a tort; relevant where the negligence of more than one person contributed.
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Communication of the alleged defamatory statement to a third-party.
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A principle of personal injury law; that government owes duties to the public at large rather than to individuals.
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A nuisance (tort) which interferes with public convenience or welfare.
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Special and highly exceptional damages ordered by a court against a defendant where the act or omission which caused the suit, was of a particularly heinous, malicious or highhanded nature.
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Shields public official from any litigation in regards to acts undertaken in good faith.
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A defence in defamation actions that defeats the claim when the alleged defamation issues during specified occasions.
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Civil law: a delict (wrong) caused by negligence.
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Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se start learning
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Latin: he who acts through another, acts himself.
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Qui Jure Suo Utitur Neminem Facit Injuriam start learning
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Latin: he who exercises his legal rights harms no one.
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Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur start learning
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Latin: an individual who does not prevent something which he/she could of prevented, is taken to have done that thing.
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Latin: to take away forcefully.
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An ethereal concept of conduct against which liability is weighed.
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Remedial judicial action to right a wrong or to prevent a infringement upon a legal right.
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Latin: the thing speaks for itself.
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Latin: let the principal answer.
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Latin: restitution to the original position.
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Strict liability for landowners for damage caused by dangerous substances which escapes from their land and damages others.
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Latin: actual or guilty knowledge; knowingly.
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A person is not responsible for an act if the conduct is carried-out in self-defence of self or of another.
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A 1604 English case that established the right of a home-owner to defend his premises against intrusion ("every man's house is his castle") yields to those seeking to enter with lawful authority such as to make an arrest.
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The tort or crime of an assault of a sexual nature.
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A sexual act upon or directed to another which is unwanted and not consented to by the other.
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A sudden and disturbing impression on the mind.
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Sic Utera Tuo Ut Alienam Non Laedas start learning
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Latin: use your property in such a fashion so as to not disturb others.
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Latin: without which, not.
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Verbal or spoken defamation.
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Intentionally casting aspersion on someones property including real property, a business or goods (the latter might also be called slander of goods).
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Civil law: a legal relationship where one or more of several debtors are each liable to pay the entire amount, or one or more of several creditors each able to collect the whole.
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A derogatory and possibly defamatory reference to another person suggesting that they are of substandard lineage.
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A fence built not to any beneficial purpose but, rather, to annoy a neighbor.
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A condition that does not change and is dangerous only if someone fails to see it and walks into it.
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The written laws approved by legislatures, parliaments or elected or appointed houses of assembly.
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A doctrine of personal injury law excusing a property owner for injuries occurring before the owner has had a reasonable chance to address hazards created by a storm.
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Tort liability which is set upon the defendant without need to prove intent, negligence or fault; as long as you can prove that it was the defendant's object that caused the damage.
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Substantial Awareness Test start learning
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The realization by a person of the harmful nature of a crime or a tort perpetrated against him/her.
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A principle of tort law which alleviates the standard of care in emergency circumstances.
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A scrape, bruise, discoloration, or swelling, of minimal severity.
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An intervening act or event which overwhelms a defendant's antecedent negligence and prevents him/her from being liable.
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Jurisdiction of a state or of a court of law over a legal action as it may be affected by the effects or passage of time.
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An additional exposure in tort liability towards persons who are particularly vulnerable or more fragile than the norm, who may have inherent weaknesses or a pre-existing vulnerability or condition; the tort-feasor takes his victim as he finds them; he compensates for all damages he caused, even if damages are elevated compared to a norm because the plaintiff was thin skulled.
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The body of the law which allows an injured person to obtain compensation from the person who caused the injury.
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The person(s) who has committed a tort.
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Defamatory statements made in regards to the quality of a business' product(s) or services.
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Unlawful interference with another’s person, property or rights.
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An old English and common law legal proceeding against a person who had found someone else’s property and has converted that property to their own purposes.
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Latin: For every wrong, the law provides a remedy.
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Activities that can cause injury to others, even when conducted with the greatest prudence and care.
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Liability for the tort of another even though the person being held responsible may not have done anything wrong.
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Latin: the law assists those that are vigilant with their rights, and not those that sleep thereupon.
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Latin: to one who is willing, no harm is done.
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An intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.
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The abandonment of a right implied from a person's conduct.
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The abuse, destruction or permanent change to property by one who is merely in possession of it as in the case of a tenant or a life tenant.
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Soft tissue (nerves and muscles) damage to the neck or lower brain area, often caused by a rear-end motor vehicle collision.
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Animals that, as a matter of common knowledge, are naturally ferocious, unpredictable, dangerous, mischievous, or not by custom devoted to the service of mankind at the time and in the place in which it is kept; ferae naturae.
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A mother's claim in tort that she would not to have given birth to the child with serious genetic defects but for the defendant's negligence in testing or counselling.
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A law action which claims damages from any person who, through negligence or direct act or omission, caused the death of certain relatives (eg. spouse, children or parent).
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In the context of the tort of nuisance, the enjoyment of property rights of another.
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A child's tort claim for bringing the child to birth where the person so doing knew or ought to have known that the child would be born into a life of painful and debilitating disease.
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A tort claim alleging that the defendant's negligence has caused an unwanted pregnancy and birth.
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