Civil theft refers to a tort, and is based on the intentional taking of another person’s property. Whereas criminal theft is prosecuted by the state, any injured citizen may file a lawsuit for a tort. The accused, or defendant, will be found either liable for the theft, or not liable for the theft.

Common torts include:assault, battery, damage to personal property, conversion of personal property, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Injury to people may include emotional harm as well as physical harm.

NEGLIGENCE

The general rule of tort liability is that the person who causes damage must pay compensation. In certain cases, however, liability can arise on third parties also. The law refers to this vicarious liability. In other words, the law must be able to attribute and extend liability to the third party.

Tort, in common law, civil law, and the vast majority of legal systems that derive from them, any instance of harmful behaviour, such as physical attack on one’s person or interference with one’s possessions or with the use and enjoyment of one’s land, economic interests (under certain conditions), honour, reputation.

Generally, an “Act of God” includes only natural occurring events, whereas force majeure includes both naturally occurring events and events due to human intervention. For example, a shipping contract would have a force majeure clause that could cover natural disasters like a tsunami.

Acts of God provisions, also called “Force Majeure” clauses, relate to events outside human control, like flash floods, earthquakes, or other natural disasters. Generally, these provisions eliminate or limit liability for injuries or other losses resulting from such events.

Courts have recognized various events as acts of God—tornadoes, earthquakes, death, extraordinarily high tides, violent winds, and floods. …

The term “Act of God” cannot be applied to a gust of wind or heavy rain; the defense typically is reserved for weather conditions of epic proportion – tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, hail the size of golf balls, etc.

Things like earthquakes, severe weather and floods are all considered acts of God. Additionally, the root cause of damage is what’s considered: a fire caused by poor wiring is not an act of God, but one caused by a lightning strike is.

In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for act of god, like: circumstances beyond one s control, supernatural event, divine act, natural-disaster, force majeure, unforeseen event; miracle, vis major, wonder, accident, freak-accident and inevitable accident.