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  • Safety Standard

    Hierarchical Display of Safety standard Production, Technology And Research > Technology and technical regulations > Technical regulations > Standardisation > StandardTrade > Consumption > Consumer > Consumer protection > Product safetyIndustry > Chemistry > Special chemicals > […]

  • Marine Insurance

    Marine Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Marine Insurance Meaning of Marine Insurance An insurance against marine losses, that is, the losses incident to marine adventure. An insurance against risks connected with navigation to which a ship, […]

  • Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Insurance Meaning of Insurance Insurance is a contract of indemnity whereby for a stipulated consideration one party , called the insurer, undertakes to indemnify the other , called the insured, against […]

  • Warranty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Warranty Meaning of Warranty An undertaking to indemnify or make good the party assured against some possible default or defect in the contemplation of the parties. The term is frequently used […]

  • Waiver

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waiver Meaning of Waiver An intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege. Johnson v Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461. To constitute a waiver of a legal right […]

  • Waiver

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waiver Meaning of Waiver An intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege. Johnson v Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461. To constitute a waiver of a legal right […]

  • Representation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Representation Meaning of Representation The act of representing. The state of being represented. A setting forth by statement or account . Also a statement made by one of the parties to a contract , […]

  • Good Samaritan

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Good Samaritan Meaning of Good Samaritan Law It refers to someone who renders aid in an emergency to an injured person on a voluntary basis. Usually, if a volunteer comes to the aid of an injured or ill […]

  • Life

    The period of time between birth and death. Has been held, however, that human life begins at conception. See Roe v Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705,35 L.Ed.2d 147.

  • Coverage

    In insurance law, the term is used to include both risks insured against and monetary amount of insurance. Refers not only to risk of loss or type of risks assumed but also includes dollar limits of liability or amounts of indemnity.

  • Subrogation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Subrogation Meaning of Subrogation A legal fiction denoting that change by which another person is put into the place of a creditor so that the right and securities of the creditor pass to the person, who […]

  • Necessaries

    The term as generally understood applies to purchases made by minors and married women whereby the estate of the minor , his parent or the husband is bound to pay for them. The term includes services, food, clothing and household supplies. In matrimonial law, a relative term and does […]

  • Charitable Trust

    English Legal System: Charitable TrustIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Charitable Trust : A trust for purposes that the law regards as charitable. There is no statutory definition of ‘charitable’. In a legal sense, a purpose […]

  • Other

    Different or distinct from that already mentioned, additional or further. Ordinarily, the term is used in the context of a class of things and has to be read ejusdem generis