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Fault
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FaultContracts, Civil law. An improper act or omission, which arises from ignorance, carelessness, or negligence. The act or omission must not have been meditated, and must have caused some injury to another.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Negligence
Contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be divided into various degrees, namely, ordinary, less than ordinary, more than ordinary.
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.
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Fault based divorce
A type of divorce to be granted if one member of the marriage is guilty of some kind of marital misconduct.
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Father-in-law
In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, or of one's hushand.
Father's rights
Legal principles and concepts promoting the idea that custody decisions must not discriminate against fathers.
Fathom
A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, which signifies the thread or yarn drawn out in spinning to the length of the arm, before it is run upon the spindle.
Fatuous person
One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit.
Faubourg
A district or part of a town adjoinng the principal city; as, a faubourg of New Orleans.
Fault
Fault based divorce
A type of divorce to be granted if one member of the marriage is guilty of some kind of marital misconduct.
Faute lourde
Gross negligence.The type of fault described by Potheir as: "...le soin que les personnes les moins soigneuses et les plus stupides ne manquent pas d'apporter à leurs affaires" (translation: the care which the least careful and most stupid persons do not fail to devote to their own affairs).
Favor
Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.
Feal
Faithful. This word is not used.
Fealty
Fidelity, allegiance.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Negligence
Contracts, torts. When considered in relation, to contracts, negligence may be divided into various degrees, namely, ordinary, less than ordinary, more than ordinary.
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Fault based divorce
A type of divorce to be granted if one member of the marriage is guilty of some kind of marital misconduct.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Father-in-law
In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, or of one's hushand.
Father's rights
Legal principles and concepts promoting the idea that custody decisions must not discriminate against fathers.
Fathom
A measure of length, equal to six feet. The word is probably derived from the Teutonic word fad, which signifies the thread or yarn drawn out in spinning to the length of the arm, before it is run upon the spindle.
Fatuous person
One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit.
Faubourg
A district or part of a town adjoinng the principal city; as, a faubourg of New Orleans.
Fault
Fault based divorce
A type of divorce to be granted if one member of the marriage is guilty of some kind of marital misconduct.
Faute lourde
Gross negligence.The type of fault described by Potheir as: "...le soin que les personnes les moins soigneuses et les plus stupides ne manquent pas d'apporter à leurs affaires" (translation: the care which the least careful and most stupid persons do not fail to devote to their own affairs).
Favor
Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice.
Feal
Faithful. This word is not used.
Fealty
Fidelity, allegiance.
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