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MISCARRIAGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MISCARRIAGE , in its widest sense a going astray, a failure. In See also:

law, the word is used in several phrases; thus, a miscarriage of See also:justice is a failure of the law to attain its ends. In the See also:Statute of Frauds (29 See also:Car. II., c. 3) in the expression " See also:debt, See also:default or miscarriage of another," the word has sometimes been interpreted as See also:equivalent in meaning to default, but it is more usually considered to mean a See also:species of wrongful See also:act for the consequence of which the law makes a party civilly responsible. The See also:term is also used (see See also:ABORTION) for the premature See also:expulsion of the contents of the womb before the See also:period of gestation is See also:complete.

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