What does the legal maxim 'Novus Actus Interveniens' mean?
New Intervening Act. ‘Novus Actus Interveniens’ is a Latin legal maxim that stands for ‘new intervening act’. Novus Actus Interveniens is “an independent event which, after the wrongdoer’s act has been concluded either caused or contributed to the consequence concerned”. Thus, an intervening act leads to a breakage in the cause-effect relation of the act that harmed the plaintiff. It is used as a defence by defendant to negate or reduce his liability.
A distribution of 6 scores has a median of 21. If the highest score increases 3 points, the median will become
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According to the Taylor principle, for inflation to be stable, the central bank must respond to an
increase in inflation wit...
If a tax on a good is doubled, the deadweight loss from the tax
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Which of the following statements is NOT correct in the context of quantity theory of money?
If factor cost is greater than Market price, then it means that:
Offer curve introduced by Alfred Marshall deals with :