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Assertion (A) : X opens a food court in front of Y's 'food joint'. All the customers of Y patronise X.…

Lawful competition that causes financial loss without infringing any legal right is damnum sine injuria, as illustrated by the Gloucester Grammar School case, and no action…

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Assertion (A) : X opens a food court in front of Y's 'food joint'. All the customers of Y patronise
X. Y can not claim damages from
X.
Reason (R) : There is a Latin maxim 'damnum sine injuria'.

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Lawful competition that causes financial loss without infringing any legal right is damnum sine injuria, as illustrated by the Gloucester Grammar School case, and no action lies. The maxim thus explains why Y cannot recover from X: "Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)"

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