“Act”. “Omission”
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Summary
The words act and omission include not only a single deed or failure, but also a series of deeds or failures taken together. When several connected acts or successive omissions form one transaction, they are treated as a single act or a single omission for legal purposes. This prevents splitting one continuous conduct into multiple separate acts.
Example
Karan notices his building's roof leaking and, despite repeated complaints, does nothing for several weeks. Those repeated failures are treated together as a single omission, not as separate omissions each day, when deciding legal responsibility.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe word “act” denotes as well as series of acts as a single act: the word “omission” denotes as well a series of omissions as a single omission.
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