Damnum Fatale
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the civil law. Fatal damage; damage from fate; loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod ex fato contingit,) and for which bailees are not liable; such as shipwreck, lightning and the like.
Dig. 4. 9. 3. 1. Story on Bailm. § 466. Story, J., 3 Story's R. 349, 367.
See Fatum. DAMNUM REI AMISSAE. Lat. In the civil law. A loss arising from a payment made by a party in consequence of an error of law.
1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 164, § 166.