virile share
virile share. Civil law. An amount that an obligor owes jointly and severally with another. La. Civ. Code art. 1804. — Also termed virile portion.
virile share. Civil law. An amount that an obligor owes jointly and severally with another. La. Civ. Code art. 1804. — Also termed virile portion.
divided-damages rule. Maritime law. The obsolete principle that when two parties are jointly liable to a third party for a tort, each party is liable for only half the damages. • The courts now apply a comparative-negligence standard. [Cases: Collision 143. C.J.S. Collision §§ 242, 245, 259, 261–262.] “For over a hundred years admiralty law
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