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Assumption of risk
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Assumption of riskA doctrine under which a person may not recover for an injury received when he has voluntarily exposed himself to a known danger.
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Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Danger
In the law of self defense "apparent danger" means such overt, actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or to do some great personal injury, as makes killing apparently necessary for self-preservation.
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Assumpsit
Contracts. An undertaking either express or implied, to perform a parol agreement.
Assurance
1) Com. law. Insurance. 2) Conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature.
Assured
A person who has been insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance.
Assurer
One who insures another against certain perils and dangers. The same as underwriter.
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Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.
Associate
This term is applied to a judge who is not the president of a court; as associate judge.
Association
The act of a number of persons uniting together for some purpose; the persons so joined are also called an association.
Association of average adjusters
The organization of average adjusters in the United Kingdom.
Assumpsit
Contracts. An undertaking either express or implied, to perform a parol agreement.
Assumption of risk
Assurance
1) Com. law. Insurance. 2) Conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature.
Assured
A person who has been insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance.
Assurer
One who insures another against certain perils and dangers. The same as underwriter.
Assythment
Scotch law. An indemnification which a criminal is bound to make to the party injured or his executors, though the crime itself should be extinguished by pardon.
Asylee
An alien in the United States or at a port of entry who is found to be unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality, or to seek the protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For persons with no nationality, the country of nationality is considered to be the country in which the alien last habitually resided.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Danger
In the law of self defense "apparent danger" means such overt, actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or to do some great personal injury, as makes killing apparently necessary for self-preservation.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Assumpsit
Contracts. An undertaking either express or implied, to perform a parol agreement.
Assurance
1) Com. law. Insurance. 2) Conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature.
Assured
A person who has been insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance.
Assurer
One who insures another against certain perils and dangers. The same as underwriter.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.
Associate
This term is applied to a judge who is not the president of a court; as associate judge.
Association
The act of a number of persons uniting together for some purpose; the persons so joined are also called an association.
Association of average adjusters
The organization of average adjusters in the United Kingdom.
Assumpsit
Contracts. An undertaking either express or implied, to perform a parol agreement.
Assumption of risk
Assurance
1) Com. law. Insurance. 2) Conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature.
Assured
A person who has been insured by some insurance company, or underwriter, against losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance.
Assurer
One who insures another against certain perils and dangers. The same as underwriter.
Assythment
Scotch law. An indemnification which a criminal is bound to make to the party injured or his executors, though the crime itself should be extinguished by pardon.
Asylee
An alien in the United States or at a port of entry who is found to be unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality, or to seek the protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For persons with no nationality, the country of nationality is considered to be the country in which the alien last habitually resided.
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