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IMPOTENCE

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In medical jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with "sterility." Griffeth v. Griffeth, 162 111. 368, 44 N. E. 820; Payne v. Payne, 46 Minn. 467, 49 N. W. 230, 24 Am. St Rep. 240; Kempf v. Kempf, 34 Mo. 213. Impotentla excusat legem. Co. Litt. 29. The impossibility of doing … [Read more...] about IMPOTENCE

IMPLIED WARRANTY

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A warranty that is given to a purchaser by a seller as a result of the words uttered by the seller that implied a warranty or guaranty. Not explicit or written down, but an oral guarantee or a statement that implies something is true. The most common are a warranty of merchantability (suitable for sale and use for the purpose sold) and a warranty of fitness (suitable … [Read more...] about IMPLIED WARRANTY

IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS

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Also known as Fitness for a Particular Purpose; a warranty where the seller knows or should know the reasons and purpose for which a buyer will use what is sold and warrants that it is suitable for the intended use. For example, if a buyer is going rock climbing, the seller knows that the rope sold must be strong enough to hold a significant amount of weight and not be only … [Read more...] about IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS

IMPOTENTIAM, PROPERTY PROPTER

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A qualified property, which may subsist in animals feres natures on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or other birds build in a person's trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or burrows in a person's land, and have young there, such person has a qualified property in them till they can fly or run away, and then such property expires. 2 Steph. Comm. (7th … [Read more...] about IMPOTENTIAM, PROPERTY PROPTER