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Personation (rather than impersonation) is a primarily legal term, meaning "to assume the identity of another person with intent to deceive". [1] It is often used for the kind of voter fraud where an individual votes in an election, whilst pretending to be a different elector.
In common law jurisdictions, a personal representative or legal personal representative is a person appointed by a court to administer the estate of another person. If the estate being administered is that of a deceased person, the personal representative is either an executor if the deceased person left a will or an administrator of an intestate estate. [1]
If parties have joint liability, each of them is liable up to the full amount of the relevant obligation. Example: Alex and Bobbie are married. Together they take a loan from a bank and the loan agreement specifies that they are to be jointly liable for the full amount. Alex moves overseas and ceases to make payments.
(But, if one's goal is to put others in substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury, this is, of course, sufficient.) There is one more type of culpability, and that is strict liability . In strict liability crimes, the actor is responsible no matter what his mental state; if the result occurs, the actor is liable.
As a sprawling liability case takes shape following the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, the owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to deflect ...
Most requirements for a successful actus reus require a voluntary act, or omission, for evidence of fault. There is also a requirement for a clear causation, there is no liability or fault if the defendant was not actually the sole cause of the act, this is so if there was an intervention of a third party, an unexpected natural event, or the victim's own act.
Vicarious liability is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, respondeat superior, the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate or, in a broader sense, the responsibility of any third party that had the "right, ability, or duty to control" the activities of a violator.
A Maryland woman will spend up to 50 years in prison after the badly decaying bodies of her niece and nephew were found in her trunk, where she had kept them for months. On August 13, 2024, Nicole ...