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Neelie Kroes Neelie Kroes (born 19 July 1941 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Competition. Kroes has an impressive career in both business and politics: After she had been member of parliament and minister for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), Kroes was member of the board of commissioners of a long list of multinationals.
Neelix Neelix is a fictional character in the television show Star Trek: Voyager, played by Ethan Phillips. He is a Talaxian who is picked up by the crew of the Starship Voyager in the first episode of the show, "Caretaker" and agrees to come along with them as a guide.
Neeltje-Jans Neeltje-Jans is an artificial island in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland, halfway between Noord-Beveland and Schouwen-Duiveland in the Oosterschelde. It was constructed to facilitate the construction of the Oosterscheldedam.
Neely's Bend Neely's Bend is a major bend in the Cumberland River just northeast of Nashville, Tennessee and south of the Nashville suburb of Madison. This area contains several hundred acres and is some of the most rural land remaining in Davidson County, Tennessee, espeically toward its southern end, with several large farms including a major equestrian operation.
Neem oil Neem oil is a vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of Neem (Azadirachta indica), an evergreen tree which is endemic to the Indian sub-continent and has been introduced to many other areas in the tropics.
Neeman Committee In Israel, the Neeman Committee was established to solve disputes concerning the process of conversion to Judaism within the borders of Israel, which by the Law of Return also grants automatic citizenship and accompanying rights. It is unrelated to the ongoing debate about which conversions performed outside Israel should be recognized.
Neemrana Neemrana is an ancient historical town in Alwar district of Rajasthan, India, situated at 122 kms from Delhi on the Delhi-Jaipur highway. It is the site of 14th century Hill-Fort ruled by Chauhans once upon a time as well as Kesroli in Alwar district that is the oldest heritage site.
Neenish tart A neenish tart, also in the past sometimes called a nienich tart, is a tart made with a pastry base, usually jam, sweet gelatine-set cream or mock cream paste filling, and icing on top in two colours, half one colour and half the other. This kind of tart (so far as is known) was created in Australia, and is still best known there.
Neepsend engine shed Neepsend engine shed was an engine shed in Neepsend, Sheffield. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway to provide and service locomotives for passenger trains originating or changing at Sheffield Victoria and goods trains from various outlets within the area.
Neepsend Station Neepsend station was the name given to a railway station built in the industrial suburb of that name in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. It was situated on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway 's Woodhead Line which connected Sheffield Victoria and Manchester London Road.
Neer Freedom Festival The Neer Freedom Festival was a festival held July 27-29, 2001 at the River Rocks stage on the Boyscout Camp Road in between Elkins and Buckhannon, West Virginia. It was organized to raise awareness and funds to promote medical marijuana.
Neeraj Prabhu Neeraj Vijay Prabhu (born 17 December 1976) is an Indian-born former English cricketer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai). A right-handed batsman, he played for Warwickshire's Second XI between 1996 and 1998 before moving to play minor counties cricket for Herefordshire.
Neersville, Virginia Neersville is an unincorporated community in northwestern Loudoun County, Virginia, USA. It is located in the Between the Hills area of the Loudoun Valley on Harpers Ferry Road (Virginia Secondary Route 671) at the foot of Short Hill Mountain.
Neerwinden Neerwinden is a village in Belgium in the province of Flemish Brabant, a few miles southeast of Tirlemont, which gives its name to two great battles, the first fought in 1693 between the Anglo-Allied army under William III of England and the French under the duke of Luxemburg, and the second in 1793 between the Austrians under Prince Josias of Coburg and the French under General Dumouriez.
Neetham Neetham (Tamil:நீதம்) are the primary virtues to be followed according to the Ayyavazhi religion. They are found in Akilam one, which is the first section of the Akilattirattu Ammanai, and in the middle of the meta-narrative events of the eight yugas.
Neeyambaspis enigmatica Neeyambaspis enigmatica ("Enigmatic shield of Neeyamba Hill") is the lesser known of the two species of pituriaspid agnathans. The species lived in estuaries during the Middle Devonian, in what is now the Georgina Basin of Western Queensland, Australia.
Nefazodone Nefazodone hydrochloride (Serzone®) is an antidepressant drug marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Its sale was discontinued in 2003 in some countries, due to the small possibility of hepatic (liver) injury, which could lead to the need for a liver transplant, or even death.
Neferefre Neferefre (also called Raneferef) was a Pharaoh of Egypt during the Fifth dynasty. A significant cache of administrative papyri–comparable in size to those found in the temple of Neferirkare–was discovered at Abusir by a 1982 University of Prague Egyptological Institute excavation from a storeroom of his mortuary temple.
Neferkamin Neferkamin may have been a seventh dynasty king of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His name "Neferkamin" is only attested on the Abydos King List, however he appears to be indentified on a tablet in the British Museum with the throne name Sneferka.
Neferkamin Anu Neferkamin Anu may have been an eighth dynasty king of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His name is attested on the Abydos King List, and also in the Turin Canon of Kings, which assigns him a rule of two years, one month, and one day.
Neferkare Neby Neferkare Neby may have been a king of the Seventh Dyansty of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His name clearly attested on the Abydos King List, and unlike other kings of this period, is attested in two other sources.
Neferkare Pepiseneb Neferkare Pepiseneb may have been an eighth dynasty king of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His name is attested on the Abydos King List, and he is the first king since ntyiqrt (who may be either Nitocris or Netjerkare) to appear on the Turin Canon of Kings, which gives him the epithet, Shery, or The Younger.
Neferkaure II Neferkaure II may have been an eighth dynasty king of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His name is attested on the Abydos King List, and also in the Turin Canon of Kings, which assigns him a rule of two years, one month, and one day.
Nefertiti Nefertiti (the beauty that has come) was the Great Royal Wife (or chief consort/wife) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten), and the mother in law and probable stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. She may have also ruled in her own right under the name Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti (meaning, the Aten is radiant of radiance because the Beautiful has arrived) briefly after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun.
Nefertiti piercing A Nefertiti piercing is a female genital piercing that is basically a combination of a vertical clitoral hood piercing and a christina piercing. Healing can be lengthy due to the amount of tissue the jewelry must pass through.
Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come is a 1962 album by the Cecil Taylor Unit, recorded live at Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is key documentation of the group's evolution into lengthy collective performances.
Neferure Neferure was the daughter of Thutmose II and his officially recognized wife Hatshepsut, the only child we know about, thus probably the only one who survived infancy. She had been trained from birth by the Queen to assume Hatshepsut's role as Pharaoh once the Queen passed on and so was tutored by some of her most trusted adviors, such as Senenmut and Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet.
Neff's Mill Covered Bridge Neff's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the Pequea Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Pequea #7 Bridge.
Neffs, Pennsylvania Neffs is a small village in North Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Neffs is located at the junction of Pennsylvania Route 873 and Pennsylvania Route 329, about one mile north of Schnecksville.
Neftalí Cruz Neftalí Cruz is a baseball scout from the Dominican Republic. He had signed several Major Leagues players for the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Tony Peña, Cecilio Guante, Felix Fermin, Miguel Diloné, Rafael Belliard, and Pascual Pérez.
Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast Neftegorsk (Нефтего́рск) was an oil-producing town in eastern Russia devastated on May 28, 1995, by an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, killing over 2,000 people and destroying two thirds of the town, located on Sakhalin Island.
Nefteyugansk United Airline Transportation Company Nefteyugansk United Airline Transportation Company is an airline based in Nefteyugansk, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It operates oil/gas industry support flights, communications, search and rescue, firefighting, air ambulance, logging and forestry services.
Nefud The Nefud or An-Nafud is a desert area in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, occupying a great oval depression; 180 miles (290 km) long and 140 miles (225 km) wide. The desert has an area of 40,000 square miles (103,600 km²).
Negabinary 'Negabinary' (radix -2) is a non-standard positional numeral system used in the experimental Polish computers SKRZAT 1 and BINEG in 1950. It has the unusual property that negative and positive numbers can be represented without a sign bit, although arithmetic operations are more complicated.
Negadon: The Monster from Mars Negadon: The Monster from Mars (Wakusei Daikaijû Negadon - 惑星大怪獣ネガドン - literally "Great Planet Monster Negadon") is a 2005 tokusatsu-style CG-animated anime 40-minute film from Japan. Created by Jun Awazu and his independent company Studio Magara, this animated film captures the "Golden Age" of tokusatsu cinema of the 1960s.
NegaDuck NegaDuck (sometimes spelled as Negaduck) is a fictional character created for the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck. He is the doppelgänger or "evil twin" version of the show's title character, and hates anything nice.
Negar Khan Born in Iran, Negar Khan (sometimes credited as Nigar Khan) grew up in Norway, studied in Australia and was pursuing a career in Bollywood until she was deported in February 2005 by Mumbai authorities for working illegally.
Negaraku "Negaraku" (English: "My Country") is the national anthem of Malaysia. "Negaraku" was selected as a national anthem at the time of the Federation of Malaya's independence from Britain in 1957.
Negascout NegaScout or Principal Variation Search is a minimax algorithm that can be faster than alpha-beta pruning. Like alpha-beta pruning, NegaScout is a directional search algorithm for computing the minimax value of a node in a tree.
Negasso Gidada Negasso Gidada (born 1943) was the president of Ethiopia from 1995 until 2001. He became president when his predecessor, Meles Zenawi became prime minister on August 22, 1995, and left office when his term expired on October 8, 2001.
Negation In logic and mathematics, negation is an operation on logical values, for example, the logical value of a proposition, that sends true to false and false to true. Intuitively, the negation of a proposition holds exactly when that proposition does not hold.
Negation (rhetoric) In rhetoric, where the role of the interpreter is taken into consideration as a nonnegligible factor, negation bears a much wider range of functions and meanings than it does in logic, where the interpretation of signs for negation is constrained by axioms to a few standard options, typically just the classical definition and a few schemes of intuitionism.
Negation as failure Negation as failure (NAF, for short) is a non-monotonic inference rule in logic programming, used to derive not~p from failure to derive p. It has been an important feature of logic programming since the earliest days of both Planner and Prolog.
Negation normal form A logical formula is in negation normal form if negation occurs only immediately above elementary propositions, and {lnot, lor,land} are the only allowed Boolean connectives. In classical logic each formula can be brought into this form by replacing implications and equivalences by their definitions, using De Morgan's laws to push negation inside, and eliminating double negations.
Negation War Negation War was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics, and serving as a culmination of the metaplots of nearly all of CrossGen's other titles. It only ran for two issues, in Spring 2004, before the company declared bankruptcy and ended production on all their titles.
Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam is a book by Koenraad Elst published in 1992. (ISBN 81-85990-01-8) Elst dedicated the book to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, secretary-general of the United Nations, for his success as a Copt from mostly Muslim Egypt.
Negative amortization In finance, negative amortization, also known as NegAm, is an amortization method in which the borrower pays back less than the full amount of interest owed to the lender each month. The shorted amount is then added to the total amount owed to the lender.
Negative and positive rights Within the philosophy of human rights, some philosophers and political scientists see a distinction between positive and negative rights. According to this view a positive right imposes a moral obligation on a person to do something for someone with a positive right, while a negative right merely obliges others to refrain interfering with someone's attempt to do something.
Negative block In policy debate, the negative block refers to the second negative constructive (2NC) and the first negative rebuttal (1NR). Although the two speeches are divided by a 3-minute cross-examination of the 2NC, they are given back to back without the interruption of an affirmative speech.
Negative calories Negative calories are Calories which burn more energy during the digestive process than they themselves physically comprise. Negative calorie discussion is found in both the dieting and eating disorders communities.
Negative campaigning Negative campaigning is trying to win an advantage by referring to negative aspects of an opponent or of a policy rather than emphasizing one's own positive attributes or preferred policies. In the broadest sense, the term covers any rhetoric which refers to an opponent, if only by way of contrast, but can also include attacks meant to destroy an opponent's character, which may veer into ad hominem.
Negative cutting Negative Cutting (also known as Negative Matching and Negative Conforming) is the process of cutting motion picture negative to match precisely the final edit as specified by the film editor. Original camera negative (OCN) is cut with scissors and joined using a film splicer and film cement.
Negative Creep Negative Creep was originally on Nirvana's 1989 debut album, Bleach. The song deals with self-hatred and drug use ("I'm a negative creep and I'm stoned"), and became a staple of Nirvana's live shows.
Negative double The negative double is a form of take-out double in bridge. It is made by responder after his right-hand opponent overcalls on the first round of bidding, and is used to show both support for the unbid suits as well as some values.
Negative equity Negative equity is a term used in the housing market, usually following a general fall in property prices, to mean that the market value of a mortgaged house or flat is less than the amount outstanding on the loan used to purchase it. This can also occur with second-mortgage home-equity loans and some loans structured to loan more than the appraised value, such as 125% loans.
Negative feedback Negative feedback (shortened to NFB) is a type of feedback in which the system responds in an opposite direction to the perturbation. It is a process of feeding back to the input a part of a system's output, so as to reverse the direction of change of the output.
Negative flag In computer processor the negative flag or sign flag is a single bit in a system status (flag) register used to indicate whether the result of last mathematic operation resulted in a value whose most significant bit was set. In a two's complement interpretation of the result, the negative flag is set if the result was negative.
Negative free bid Negative free bid is a bridge convention (or, more accurately, a treatment) whereby a free bid by responder over an opponent's overcall is not forcing, and just shows a long suit in a weak hand. This is in contrast with standard treatment, where a free bid can show unlimited values and is unconditionally forcing.
Negative FX Negative FX was a hardcore band from Boston formed in 1982. Though the band lasted only a short time, playing only a total of five shows (six flyers exist), the band was well known for their involvement in the local straight edge scene of the early '80s.
Negative gearing Negative gearing is a form of financial leverage where an investor borrows money to buy an asset, but the income generated by that asset does not cover the interest on the loan. (When the income does cover the interest it is called positive gearing.
Negative impedance converter The negative impedance converter (NIC) is a configuration of an operational amplifier which acts as a negative load. This is achieved by introducing a phase shift of 180° (inversion) between the voltage and the current for any signal generator.
Negative income tax In economics, a negative income tax (abbreviated NIT) is a method of tax reform that has been discussed among economists but never fully implemented. It was developed by Juliet Rhys-Williams in the 1940s and later by United States economist Milton Friedman in 1962.
Negative information In robotics, Negative information is defined as the ascertained absence of evidence when evidence was expected. In quantum information science, Negative information is when sending quantum bits of a message from a transmitter to a receiver will reduce the information the receiver has about the message.
Negative liberty The philosophical concept of negative liberty refers to an individual's liberty from being subjected to the authority of others. In this negative sense, one is considered free to the extent to which no person interferes with his or her activity.
Negative luminescence Negative luminescence is a physical phenomenon by which an electronic device emits less thermal radiation when an electric current is passed through it than it does in thermal equilibrium (current off). When viewed by a thermal camera, an operating negative luminescent device looks colder than its environment.
Negative photocopy A negative photocopy inverts the colors of the document when creating the photocopy resulting in letters to appear white on a black background instead of black on a white background. Negative photocopies of old or faded documents sometimes produce documents which have better focus and are easier to read and study.
Negative pH (drum and bass group) negative pH is a Drum n' Bass duo that entered the scene in 2004 with the release of their debut album Liminal Space. negative pH pioneered the sub-genre of "epic drum n' bass", launching from the decay of trance and infusing other world traditions with techstep and straight-up drum n' bass into their sound to create "epic" drum n' bass – a sweeping, mythologically grand, atmospherical genre.
Negative pickup deal In film production, a negative pickup is a contract entered into by an independent producer and a movie studio wherein the studio agrees to purchase the movie from the producer at a given date and for a fixed sum. Depending on whether the studio pays part or all of the cost of the film, the studio will receive the domestic, international, DVD and/or TV rights to the film, with net profits split between the producer and the studio.
Negative pregnant A negative pregnant (sometimes called a pregnant denial) refers to a denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I have never consumed cocaine whilst on duty" might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions, and was only denying that they had done so whilst on duty.
Negative Priming Negative Priming refers to a slowed response identification time to a targetstimulus that has been previously ignored. In previous trials of the experiment this target stimulus or probe was a distractor stimulus.
Negative relative accommodation Negative relative accommodation (NRA) is a measure of the maximum ability to relax accommodation while maintaining clear, single binocular vision This measurement is typically obtained by an ophthalmologist] or [[optometrist during an eye examination using a phoropter. After the patient's distance correction is established, he or she is instructed to view small letters on a card 40 cm from the eyes.
Negative resistance Negative resistance or negative differential resistance is a property of electrical circuit elements composed of certain materials in which, over certain voltage ranges, current is a decreasing function of voltage. This range of voltages is known as a negative resistance region.
Negative return (spaceflight) Negative return is a phrase used in connection with the launch of a spacecraft: the point at which a spacecraft can no longer safely abort a launch and return to earth is the negative return moment. If the decision to abort a mission comes after the negative return moment, the mission must "abort to orbit.
Negative selection (artificial selection) Negative selection, in artificial selection, is where negative, rather than positive, traits of a species are selected for. It is generally not desirable, but may be caused by man-made conditions such as bad management, such as when humans eat the best plants or animals they have, leading to worse and worse stock; it occurred frequently, for example, in primitive beekeeping.
Negative selection (natural selection) Negative selection, in natural selection, is the selective removal of rare alleles that are deleterious. This is also called purifying selection and can result in the maintenance of conserved gene sequences between species over long periods of evolutionary time.
Negative space In art, generally, negative space is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
Negative Syndicate The is a fictional alliance among the villains within the Japanese television show GoGo Sentai Boukenger. Not much is known about it, other than that it consists of various organizations and all their respective leaders, foot soldiers, and monsters who try to steal the Precious and use them for evil deeds.
Negative temperature In physics, certain systems can achieve negative temperatures; that is, their thermodynamic temperature can be a negative quantity. Negative temperatures can be expressed as negative numbers on the Kelvin scale.
Negative temperature coefficient A negative temperature coefficient (NTC) occurs when the thermal conductivity of a material decreases with increasing temperature, typically in a defined temperature range. For most materials, the thermal conductivity will rise with increasing temperature.
Negative theology Negative theology - also known as the Via Negativa (Latin for "Negative Way") and Apophatic theology - is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may not be said about God.
Negative thermal expansion Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) is a physicochemical process, during which various materials contract upon heating rather than expanding as expected. Materials that undergo this unusual process have a range of potential engineering, photonic, electronic, and structural applications.
Negativity Negativity is the name given in philosophy to the negative element determinative or definitive of things and all ideas of things, whereby a thing is this because it is not that, and is seen to be this because it
Negativity effect In psychology, the negativity effect is the tendency of people, when evaluating the causes of the behaviors of a person they dislike, to attribute positive behaviors to the situations surrounding the behaviors and negative behaviors to the person's inherent disposition. The negativity effect is the inverse of the positivity effect, which is found when people evaluate the causes of the behaviors of a person they like.
Negawatt power Negawatt power is a term coined for an arbitrage way of supplying additional electrical energy to consumers without increased generation capacity by the creation of a market for trading of increased efficiency. The concept was introduced by Amory Lovins in a 1989 speech.
Negele Knight Negele Oscar Knight (born March 6 1967, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 2nd round (31st overall) of the 1990 NBA Draft. Knight played for the Suns, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons and Toronto Raptors in six NBA seasons.
Negelvasser Negelvasser has its source in the Yiddish Language. It is the washing cup that is used to remove the impurities that have come upon the hands of a Jew through contact with forbidden objects or through the impurity that rests upon one's hands upon awaking from sleep (that is longer than 20 minutes), because sleep is akin to 1/60th of death according to Jewish Law.
Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (also Negri Sembilan, Jawi: نڬري سمبيلن), meaning "nine states" in Malay, is a state of Malaysia. It is located on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, just south of Kuala Lumpur and is bordered in the north by Selangor, in the east by Pahang and in the south by Malacca and Johor.
Negi Springfield Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド Negi Supringufīrudo), is the main character of the manga/anime . He is the homeroom and English teacher of Class 3-A (formerly 2-A) of Mahora Academy Middle School.
Negidals Negidals (Негидальцы in Russian; self designation: элькан бэйэнин, or elkan bayenin meaning "local people." The ethnonym Negidal is a Russification of the Ewenki term ngegida, which means "coastal people.
Negishi coupling The Negishi coupling is a cross coupling reaction in organic chemistry involving an organozinc compound, an organic halide and a nickel or palladium catalyst creating a new carbon-carbon covalent bond Highly general stereo-, regio-, and chemo-selective synthesis of terminal and internal conjugated enynes by the Pd-catalysed reaction of alkynylzinc reagents with alkenyl halides Anthony O. King, Nobuhisa Okukado and Ei-ichi Negishi Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1977, 683 - 684 Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis Laszlo Kurti, Barbara Czako Academic Press (March 4, 2005) ISBN 0-12-429785-4 :
Negishi Line The is a rail segment between Yokohama and ĹŚfuna stations operated by the East Japan Railway Company, connecting crucial sightseeing spots in Yokohama. Freight trains also run on this line, and it is essential for the southern Keihin region.
Neglect of probability The neglect of probability bias, a type of cognitive bias, is the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty and is one simple way in which people regularly violate the normative rules for decision making.
Neglected Diseases The Neglected Diseases are a group of 13 tropical infections that afflict the poor and powerless in the developing regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Together, they cause an estimated 500,000 to 1 million deaths annually and cause a global disease burden equivalent to that of HIV-AIDS.
Neglected Mario Characters Neglected Mario Characters (often abbreviated as Neglected Characters or NC) is a webcomic on a Nintendo fansite, arguably the originator of the "sprite comic" style,Will Strip for Games, 1UP.com having started on September 6 1998.
Negligee The negligee is a form of womenswear intended for wear at night and in the bedroom. It is a form of nightgown; first introduced in France in the 18th Century, where it mimicked the heavy head-to-toe style of women's day dresses of the time.
Negligence In law, negligence is a type of tort or delict that can be either criminal or civil in nature. Negligence means conduct that is culpable because it misses the legal standard protecting individuals against forseeably risky, harmful acts of other members of society.
Negligence per se Negligence per se is the legal doctrine whereby certain acts are considered intrinsically negligent. This occurs when an actor's violation of a statute (or regulation) causes the kind of harm the statute was intending to prevent.
Negligent entrustment Negligent entrustment is a cause of action in tort law that arises where one party (the entrustor) is held liable for negligence because they negligently provided another party (the entrustee) with a dangerous instrumentality, and the entrusted party caused injury to a third party with that instrumentality. The cause of action most frequently arises where one person allows another to drive their automobile.
Negligent hiring Negligent hiring is a cause of action in tort law that arises where one party is held liable for negligence because they placed another party in a position of authority or responsibility, and an injury resulted because of this placement.
Negligent homicide Negligent homicide is a charge brought against persons, who by inaction, allow others under their care to die. This offense mostly concerns itself with the death of small infants or children, the handicapped, or the elderly.

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