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Under joint and several liability or (in the U.S.) all sums, a plaintiff (claimant) is entitled to claim an obligation incurred by any of the promisors from all of them jointly and also from each of them individually. Thus the plaintiff has more than one cause of action: if she pursues one promisor and he fails to pay the sum due, her action is ...
Given the U.S. usage of the word "joint" meaning such activities, the British usage faded relatively quickly. After World War II, the U.S. Department of Defense began using the term to denote multinational operations, which might mean the land forces of several countries, for example Combined Forces Land Component Command , or Combined Joint ...
Comparative negligence, called non-absolute contributory negligence outside the United States, is a partial legal defense that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim, based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause the injury.
Joint vs. separate: Can both be the best way to bank? Many couples find that a blend of joint and separate accounts offers the best of both worlds. This “yours, mine and ours” approach creates ...
A common example of solidary obligations for the obligees is a joint bank account; when two or more names are on an account, they are obligees of the bank's obligation to make funds available on demand. Each obligee would have the right to withdraw the whole amount in the bank account.
The article defines three types of liability (joint, several and joint and several). But then the first example mentions "proportionate liability". Is this supposed to be one of the three types previously defined? The term is not mentioned anywhere earlier but it is used as if it were previously defined.
Most joint disorders involve arthritis, but joint damage by external physical trauma is typically not termed arthritis. Arthropathies are called polyarticular (multiarticular) when involving many joints and monoarticular when involving only a single joint. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people over the age of 55.
General partners may have joint liability or joint and several liability depending upon circumstances. The limited partnership (LP) is a partnership in which general partners manage the partnership's operations, and limited partners forego the right to manage the business in exchange for limited liability for the partnership debts.