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Home Dictionary Name: accommodate Page: 2 Page 2 of about 88 results (0.002 seconds)Additional accommodation
Additional accommodation, takes in both residential as well as non-residential building, Davis v. Sebastian, (1999) 6 SCC 604....
accommodation party
accommodation party see party ...
accommodation paper
accommodation paper see paper ...
party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
reasonable accommodation
reasonable accommodation : something done to accommodate a disabled person that does not jeopardize safety or pose an undue hardship for the party (as an employer) doing it ;also : something done to accommodate a religious need that does not create undue hardship for an employer ...
ada
ada (Americans With Disabilities Act) - Prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant who could perform a job despite a disability. The act also requires an employer to provide an accommodation (modified work hours or duties, or special equipment) if such an accommodation is not "unduly burdensome" and is necessary to help the employee perform. Source: FindLaw ...
Cheap trains
Cheap trains. Early in the history of railways the companies were compelled by the (English) Railway Regulation Act, 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 85), sometimes called the Cheap Train Act, to run one train a day at a penny a mile fare; in respect of which trains (ss. 6, 7) termed 'parliamentary trains,' or 'Government trains,' the companies were exempt from the passenger duty otherwise charge-able. Disputes arising between the companies and the Government as to the extent of this exemption, the (English) Cheap Trains Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 34), abolished the duty altogether on all fares not exceeding one penny per mile and empowered he board of Trade to require any company to provide proper accommodation at such fares, and also reasonable accommodation for workmen going to and returning from their work. See Browne or Thebald on Railways....
Material alteration
Material alteration, A material alteration is one which varies the rights, liabilities, or legal position of the parties as ascertained by the deed in its original state, or otherwise varies the legal effect of the instrument as originally expressed, or reduces to certainty some provision which was originally unascertained and as such void, or which may otherwise prejudice the party bound by the deed as originally executed, Loonkaran Sethia v. Mr. Ivan E. John, AIR 1977 SC 336 (347): (1977) 1 SCC 379: (1977) 1 SCR 853.The material alterations contemplate change of substantial nature affecting the form and character of the building. Many a time tenants make minor constructions and alterations for the convenient use of the tenanted accommodation. The legislature does not provide for their eviction; instead, the construction so made would furnish ground for eviction only when they bring about substantial change in the front and structure of the building. The essential element which needs ...
Poorer and working classes
Poorer and working classes, the expression 'poorer and working classes contemplated by sub-clause (c) of Clauses (A) of sub-s. (1) s. 277 refers to such indigent and working people who need accommodation and cannot on their own make arrangements for reasonable accommodation, Municipal Corporation of the City of Jabalpur v. Kishan Lal, AIR 1966 SC 207 (209). [City of Jabalpur Corporation Act, CP and Berar Act, 1948 (3 of 1950), s. 277(1)]...
Privy
Privy [fr. priv', Fr.], having a participation in some Act, so as to be bound thereby, see the word in this sense in the statutory implied covenant in Part vi. Of the Second Sch. Of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and Woodhouse v. Jenkins, (1832) 9 Bing 441. Also a participation in interest or knowledge. See PRIVIES. Also sanitary accommodation. The Public Health Acts (see PUBLIC HEALTH) aim at securing proper sanitary accommodation for every house. See Tracey v. Pretty, (1901) 1 KB 444.Privy CouncilThe sovereign nominates privy councillors, and no patent or grant is necessary. The number of the Council is indefinite, and is dependent upon the royal will. It is summoned on a warning of forty-four hours, and never held without the presence of a Secretary of State; the junior delivers his opinion first, and the sovereign, if present, last; it is dissolved six months after the demise of the Crown, unless sooner determined by the successor.Privy councillors, on taking the necessary oaths, b...
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