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Strict liability
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Strict liabilityLiability without regard to mens rea (the guilty mind) or scienter (knowledge). For example, strict liability may result in damages being awarded in the United States in marine pollution cases against ships or owners of cargo, where there is no fault whatsoever.
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Liability
A person or organization's extent of responsibility for a loss. An item of value that is part of the overall debt or obligation of a person or business.
Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
Scienter
Knowingly.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Marine
Whatever concerns the navigation of the sea, and forms the naval power of a nation is called its marine.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Cargo
Maritim law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel.
Fault
Contracts, 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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Strict settlement
When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement.
Strictissimi juris
The most strict right or law. In general, when a person receives an advantage, as the grant of a license, he is bound to conform strictly to the exercise of the rights given him by it, and in case of a dispute, it will be strictly construed.
Strictum jus
This phrase is used to denote mere law, in contradistinction to equity.
Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
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Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Stratagem
A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enenly.
Stratocracy
A military government; government by military chiefs of an army.
Stream
A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream.
Street
A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is equivalent to highway.
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Strict settlement
When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement.
Strictissimi juris
The most strict right or law. In general, when a person receives an advantage, as the grant of a license, he is bound to conform strictly to the exercise of the rights given him by it, and in case of a dispute, it will be strictly construed.
Strictum jus
This phrase is used to denote mere law, in contradistinction to equity.
Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Struck
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, when the death arises from any woundng, beating or bruising, it is said, that the word "struck" is essential.
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Liability
A person or organization's extent of responsibility for a loss. An item of value that is part of the overall debt or obligation of a person or business.
Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
Scienter
Knowingly.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Marine
Whatever concerns the navigation of the sea, and forms the naval power of a nation is called its marine.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Cargo
Maritim law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel.
Fault
Contracts, 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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Strict settlement
When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement.
Strictissimi juris
The most strict right or law. In general, when a person receives an advantage, as the grant of a license, he is bound to conform strictly to the exercise of the rights given him by it, and in case of a dispute, it will be strictly construed.
Strictum jus
This phrase is used to denote mere law, in contradistinction to equity.
Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Stranger
Persons, contracts.1) A person born out of the United States; but in this sense the term alien is more properly applied, until he becomes naturalized. 2) A person who is not privy to an act or contract; example, he who is a stranger to the issue, shall not take advantage of the verdict.
Stratagem
A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enenly.
Stratocracy
A military government; government by military chiefs of an army.
Stream
A current of water. The right to a water course is not a right in the fluid itself so much as a right in the current of the stream.
Street
A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is equivalent to highway.
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Strict settlement
When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement.
Strictissimi juris
The most strict right or law. In general, when a person receives an advantage, as the grant of a license, he is bound to conform strictly to the exercise of the rights given him by it, and in case of a dispute, it will be strictly construed.
Strictum jus
This phrase is used to denote mere law, in contradistinction to equity.
Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Struck
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, when the death arises from any woundng, beating or bruising, it is said, that the word "struck" is essential.
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