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Vicarious liability
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Vicarious liabilityAn employer is vicariously liable for negligent acts or omissions by his employee in the course of employment whether or not such act or omission was specifically authorised by the employer. To avoid vicarious liability, an employer must demonstrate either that the employee was not negligent in that the employee was reasonably careful or that the employee was acting in his own right rather than on the employer's business.
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Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Liable
Legally responsible.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Avoid
To make empty, put out of the way. To cause to be or become empty; to render useless or void; to make inoperative or of no effect; to nullify. As oppossed to: affirm, confirm.
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.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
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Vexed question
Vexata quaestio. A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined nor settled.
Vi et armis
With force and arms. When man breaks into another's close vi et armis, he may be opposed force by force, for there is no time to request him to go away.
Via
A cart-way, which also includes a foot-way and a horse-way.
Viability
Medicine, juridical. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life.
Viable
Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he bad never been born.
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Vice
A term used in the civil law and in Louisiana, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and crib-biting in a horse, are vices. Redhibitory vices are those for which the seller will be compelled to annul a sale, and take back the thing sold.
Vice versa
On the contrary; on opposite sides.
Vice-admiral
The title of an officer in the navy; the next in rank after the admiral. In the United States we have no officer by this name.
Vice-chancellor
The title of a judicial officer who decides causes depending in the court of chancery; his opinions may be reversed, discharged or altered by the chancellor.
Vicecomes
The sheriff.
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Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Liable
Legally responsible.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Omission
An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
Avoid
To make empty, put out of the way. To cause to be or become empty; to render useless or void; to make inoperative or of no effect; to nullify. As oppossed to: affirm, confirm.
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.
Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.
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Vexed question
Vexata quaestio. A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined nor settled.
Vi et armis
With force and arms. When man breaks into another's close vi et armis, he may be opposed force by force, for there is no time to request him to go away.
Via
A cart-way, which also includes a foot-way and a horse-way.
Viability
Medicine, juridical. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life.
Viable
Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he bad never been born.
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Vice
A term used in the civil law and in Louisiana, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and crib-biting in a horse, are vices. Redhibitory vices are those for which the seller will be compelled to annul a sale, and take back the thing sold.
Vice versa
On the contrary; on opposite sides.
Vice-admiral
The title of an officer in the navy; the next in rank after the admiral. In the United States we have no officer by this name.
Vice-chancellor
The title of a judicial officer who decides causes depending in the court of chancery; his opinions may be reversed, discharged or altered by the chancellor.
Vicecomes
The sheriff.
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