Vicarious liability definition

Vicarious liability means that your employer may be held responsible for injury or damage, even if they were not actively involved in the incident.

Vicarious liability for purposes of this Agreement shall mean any act for which Executive is constructively liable, including, but not limited to, any liability that is based on acts of the Company for which Executive is charged solely as a result of his offices with the Company and in which he was not directly involved or did not have prior knowledge of such actions or intended actions;

Vicarious liability generally means the imposition of liability on one person for the actionable conduct of another, based solely on the relationship between the two persons.

Examples of Vicarious liability in a sentence

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• Vicarious liability for acts or omissions of real estate licensee.

• Vicarious liability on the part of a person must be pleaded and proved and not inferred.

• Vicarious liability (10.1) Despite any provision of this Part, a person vicariously liable for the fault or negligence of a protected defendant is not, in respect of the person’s vicarious liability, liable for any amount greater than the amount of damages for which the protected defendant is liable.

• Vicarious liability (1) Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer, of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to have committed that offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

More Definitions of Vicarious liability

Vicarious liability for purposes of this Agreement shall mean any act for which Employee is constructively liable, including, but not limited to, any liability that is based on acts of the Company for which Employee is charged solely as a result of his or her offices with the Company and in which he or she was not directly involved or did not have prior knowledge of such actions or intended actions;

Vicarious liability means that your employer may

Vicarious liability means to make one or more persons or entities legally responsible for the actions or conduct of another person or entity because of the personal or special relationship between them.

Vicarious liability means Employee’s liability based on acts of Company for which Employee is charged solely as a result of Employee’s offices with Company and in which Employee was not directly involved or did not have prior knowledge of such acts).

Vicarious liability means liability that a supervisory party, such as an employer, bears for the actionable conduct of a subordinate or associate, such as an employee, based on the relationship between the two parties.41

Vicarious liability. Means any legal liability that the local church may be determined to have for the actions and conduct of those who act on its behalf (e.g. staff, volunteers, appointed church officers, or contractors);

Vicarious liability in legal parlance means the liability of the master for the acts of the servant or agent done in the course of employment. Section 141 makes a natural person vicariously liable for the contravention committed by a company provided such person has some nexus with the crime either because of his connivance with it or due to by criminal negligence which had resulted in its commission. No doubt the law makes the principal liable for the acts of his agent, but unless there is some absolute duty cast upon the principal, he cannot be held responsible for the acts of his agent.”