Immediate force; original force. This phrase is applied to cases of trespass when a question arises whether an injury has been caused by a direct force, or one which is indirect. When the original force, or vis impressa, had ceased to act before the injury commenced, then there is no force, the effect is mediate, and the proper remedy is trespass on the case. 2. When the injury … [Read more...]

To void, erase, to reduce the effectiveness of something. To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as when it is said that fraud vitiates a contract. … [Read more...]

a superior force. In law it signifies inevitable accident. 2. This term is used in the civil law in nearly the same way that the words act of God, are used in the common law. Generally, no one is responsible for an accident which arises from the vis major; but a man may be so where he has stipulated that he would; and when he has been guilty of a fraud or deceit. … [Read more...]

To litigate cavilously, vexatioukly, or from merely quarrelsome mo-tives. … [Read more...]

(A) civ. law. The formula put upon an act; a register; a commercial book, in order to approve of it and authenticate it. (B) The stamped placed in the passport of foreigners by a U.S. Consulate Official in their foreign country that allows the holder of the visa to enter the United States, designated as either an immigrant visa or nonimmigrant visa. An official Indorsement npon … [Read more...]