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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, Lat. indemnis, free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss)

INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, See also:
LAT
Lat. indemnis, See also:
FREE
free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss) , in See also:

law, an undertaking, either See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express or implied, to compensate another for loss or damage, or for trouble or expense incurred; also the sum so paid (see See also:

CONTRACT ; and See also:

INSURANCE

INSURANCE : Marine). An See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of indemnity is a See also:

STATUTE

statute passed for the purpose either of relieving persons from disabilities and penalties to which they have rendered themselves liable or to make legal transactions which, when they took See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, were illegal. An act or See also:

BILL

bill of indemnity used to be passed every session by the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament for the See also:

RELIEF

relief of those who had unwittingly neglected to qualify themselves in certain respects for the holding of offices, &c., as, for example, justices, without taking the necessary oaths. The Promissory Oaths Act 1868 rendered this unnecessary.

End of Article: INDEMNITY (through Fr. indemnite, Lat. indemnis, free from damage or loss; in-, negative, and damnum, loss)

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