Damnum Fatale
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Inthe civil law
Fatal damage; damage from fate; loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod em fato continyit,) or an act of God, and for which hailees are not liable; such as shipwreck, lightning, and the like.
Dig. 4, 9, 8, 1; Story, Bailm. § 465.
The civilians included in the phrase “damnum fataie” all those accidents which are summed up in the common-law expression, “Act of God or public enemies;” though, perhaps, it embraced