Act of God
Natural disaster outside human control, for which no person is at fault / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident")[2][3] is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, which frees someone from the liability of what happens as a result. An act of God may amount to an exception to liability in contracts (as under the Hague–Visby Rules),[4] or it may be an "insured peril" in an insurance policy.[5] In Scots law, the equivalent term is damnum fatale,[6] while most Common law proper legal systems use the term act of God.[7]
It is legally distinct from—though often related to—a common clause found in contract law known as force majeure.[8]