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In French law. A family council. Certain acts require the sanction of this body. For example, a guardian can neither accept nor reject an inheritance to which the minor has succeeded without its authority, (Code Nap. 461;) nor can he accept for the child a gift inter vivos without the like authority, (Id. 463.) … [Read more...] about CONSEIL DE FAMILLE

Such damage, loss, or injury as does not flow directly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act Swain v. Copper Co., Ill Tenn. 430, 78 S. W. 93; Pearson v. Spartanburg County, 51 S. C. 48Q, 29 S. E. 193. The term "consequential damage" means sometimes damage which is so remote as not to be actionable; sometimes … [Read more...] about CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE

In French law. When a person has been subjected to an Interdiction on the ground of his insane extravagance, but the interdiction is not absolute, but limited only, the court of first instance, which grants the interdiction, appoints a council, called by this name, with whose assistance the party may bring or defend actions, or compromise the same, alienate his estate, make or … [Read more...] about CONSEIL JUDICIAIRE

torts. Those damages or those losses which arise not from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act; as if a man throw a log into the public streets, and another fall upon it and become injured by the fall or if a man should erect a dam over his own ground, and by that means overflow his neighbor's, to his injury. 2. The form of action to be instituted for … [Read more...] about CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

In French law. A species of trade tribunals, charged with settling differences between masters and workmen. They endeavor, in the first instance, to conciliate the parties. In default, they adjudicate upon the questions in dispute. Their decisions are final np to 200/. Beyond that amount, appeals lie to the tribunals of commerce. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 553. … [Read more...] about CONSEILS DE PRUDHOMMES