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Actual fault or privity






Actual fault or privity

A faulty act or omission of a party, or his knowledge of or complicity with the faulty act or omission of another for whose conduct he is responsible.

RELATED TERMS
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Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.

Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.

Knowledge
Information as to a fact. Many acts are perfectly innocent when the party performing them is not aware of certain circumstances attending them for example, a man may pass a counterfeit note and be guiltless, if he did not know it was so he may receive stolen goods if he were not aware of the fact that they were stolen. In these and the like cases it is the guilty knowledge which makes the crime.

Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Actual
Real; actual.

Actual damages
Reward of the actual loss resulting from a breach of contract, such as the disputed payments under the contract.

Actuarius
An ancient name or appellation of a notary.

Actuary
A clerk in some corporations vested with various powers.

Actus
A foot way and horse way.

Actus doi nomini facit injuriam
An act of God does wrong to no one.

Actus legis nomini faeit injuriam
An act of the law wrongs no man.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea
An act does not make a man a criminal, unless his intention be criminal. To constitute a crime the intent and the act must concur; a mere overt act, without wrongful intention, does not make guilt.

Actus reus
(United Kingdom) A guilty deed or act.



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Actori incumbit probatio
On the plaintiff rests the proving - the "burden of proof".

Acts of court
In courts of admiralty, by this phrase is understood legal memoranda of the nature of pleas.

Acts of sederunt
In the laws of Scotland, are ordinances for regulating theforms of proceeding, before the court of session, in the administration ofjustice, made by the judges, who have a delegated power from the legislaturefor that purpose.

Actual
Real; actual.

Actual damages
Reward of the actual loss resulting from a breach of contract, such as the disputed payments under the contract.

Actual fault or privity

Actuarius
An ancient name or appellation of a notary.

Actuary
A clerk in some corporations vested with various powers.

Actus
A foot way and horse way.

Actus doi nomini facit injuriam
An act of God does wrong to no one.

Actus legis nomini faeit injuriam
An act of the law wrongs no man.

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