Damnum fatale

In Civil Law. Damages caused by a fortuitous event or inevitable accident; damages arising from the act of God. Among these were included losses by shipwreck, lightning, or other casualty; also losses by pirates, or by vis major, by fire, robbery, and burglary; but theft was not numbered among these casualties. In general, bailees are not liable for such damages; Story, Bailm. 471.

Fatal damage; damage from fate ; loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod ex fato contingit,) or an act of God, and for which bailees are not liable; such as shipwreck, lightning, and the like. Dig. 4, 9, 3, 1; Story, Bailm. § 465. The civilians included in the phrase "damnum fatale" ali those accidents which are summed up in the common-law expression. "Act of God or public enemies;" though, perhaps, it embraced some which would not now be admitted as occurring from an irresistible force. Thickstun v. Howard, 8 Blackf. (Ind.) 535.

Defined under Damnum in Black's Law Dictionary.

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

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.