fatal

fatal
fa·tal adj
1: causing failure of a legal claim or cause of action
a fatal defect in the proceedings — W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel
2: making something (as a contract) invalid or unenforceable
there is a fatal indefiniteness with the result that the agreement is void — J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo
fa·tal·ly adv

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

fatal
I adjective annihilative, calamitous, catastrophic, causing death, causing destruction, consumptive, deadly, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, destroying, destructive, devastating, dire, disastrous, eradicative, exitialis, exterminative, extirpative, fateful, fell, feral, funestus, harmful, hurtful, injurious, involving death, involving ruin, killing, lethal, lethiferous, malignant, mortiferous, murderous, noisome, noxious, perniciosus, pernicious, poisonous, ruining, ruinous, slaughterous, toxic, tragic, venomous, virulent, wasting associated concepts: fatal consequences, fatal defect, fatal errors, fatal injury, fatal to a cause of action, fatal variance II index deadly, deleterious, dire, lethal, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, serious (grave), toxic

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


fatal
adj.
Deadly; causing death; causing something to fail completely.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


fatal
adj. Deadly, causing actual or metaphorical death; causing the undoing of a claim, assertion, or legal document ("a fatal flaw in the pleading").
See also fatal defect.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


fatal
Deadly or mortal; destructive; devastating.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


fatal
Deadly or mortal; destructive; devastating.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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  • fatal — fatal …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • fatal — fatal, ale [ fatal ] adj. • XIVe; lat. fatalis, de fatum « destin » 1 ♦ Du destin; fixé, marqué par le destin. Le moment, l instant fatal. ⇒ fatidique. « Cette grande figure une et multiple, lugubre et rayonnante, fatale et sacrée, l Homme »… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • fatal — fatal, ale (fa tal, ta l ) adj. 1°   Qui porte avec soi une destinée irrévocable. Le tison fatal de Méléagre. •   Vint enfin le moment du festin fatal de la reine [Esther], dont le favori [Aman] s était tant enorgueilli, BOSSUET Polit. X, III, 5 …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • fatal — adjetivo 1. (antepuesto / pospuesto) Que causa desgracia o que perjudica a una persona o a una cosa: Una recaída en su enfermedad podría ser fatal. Ha sufrido un accidente fatal, ha muerto. Has tomado una decisión de fatales consecuencias. Se… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

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