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For cause






For cause

An employment arrangement where employees may only be terminated for a proven cause.

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Employment
An employment is an office.

Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.



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For that
Pleading. It is a maxim in law, regulating alike every form of action, that the plaintiff shall state his complaint in positive and direct terms, and not by way of recital. "For that " is a positive allegation; "For that whereas," in Latin "quod cum" is a recital.



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For cause

For that
Pleading. It is a maxim in law, regulating alike every form of action, that the plaintiff shall state his complaint in positive and direct terms, and not by way of recital. "For that " is a positive allegation; "For that whereas," in Latin "quod cum" is a recital.

Forbearance
Contracts. The act by which a creditor waits for the payment of the debt due him by the debtor, after it has become due.

Force majeure
A superior force. An event that no human foresight could anticipate or which if anticipated, is too strong to be considered an industrial strike which leads to loss of profits. Circumstances must be abnormal and unforeseeable, so that the consequences could not have been avoided through the exercise of all due care.

Forced heir
Forced heirs are those who cannot be disinherited. This term is used among the civilians.

Forced heirs
In Louisiana they are those persons whom the testator or donor cannot deprive of the porttion of his estate reserved for them by law, except in cases where he has a just cause to disinherit them. As to the portion of the estate they are entitled to. As to the causes for which forced heirs may be deprived of this right.

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