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Direct damages are such as follow immediately upon the act done; while consequential damages are the necessary and connected effect of the wrongful act flowing from some of its consequences or results though to some extent depending on other circumstances. … [Read more...] about DIRECT AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

Persons appointed or elected according to law authorized to manageand direct the affairs of a corporation or company. The whole of the directors collectivelyform the board of directors. … [Read more...] about DIRECTORS

See proximate cause. This means the direct, obvious and immediate reason why something occurred, e.g. the defendant's erratic driving struck the plaintiff and caused his damages. … [Read more...] about DIRECT AND PROXIMATE CAUSE

A provision in a statute, rule of procedure, or the like, is said to be directory when it is to be considered as a mere direction or instruction of no obligatory force, and involving no invalidating consequence for its disregard,, as opposed to an imperative or mandatory provision, which must be followed. The general rule is that the prescriptions of a statute relating to the … [Read more...] about DIRECTORY

A direct attack on a judgment or decree is an attempt for sufficient cause to have it annulled reversed vacated corrected declared void or enjoined in a proceeding instituted for that specific purpose such as an appeal writ of error bill of review or injunction to restrain its execution; distinguished from a collateral attack which is an attempt to impeach the validity or … [Read more...] about DIRECT ATTACK