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Impressment, means (1) The act of forcibly taking for public service. (2) A court's imposition of a constructive trust on equitable grounds. (3) Archaic. The method by which armed forces were formely expanded, when so-called press-gangs seized men off the streets and forced them to join the army or navy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760....
Worker
Worker, means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship. [Insecticides Act., 1968 (46 of 1968), s. 3 (r)]It means a person employed, directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor) with or without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, in any manufacturing process, or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises used for a manufacturing process, or in any other kind of work incidental to, or connected with, the manufacturing process, or the subject o the manufacturing process but does not include any member of the armed forces of the Union. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (l)]Means a worker in any establishment or employ-ment in respect of which this Act has come into force. [Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), s. 2 (i)]Means any person who is employed for wages in any kind of work and who gets his wages directly from the employer but shall not include an apprentice referred to in clause (aa). [A...
Civil enclave
Civil enclave, 'civil enclave' means the area, if any, allotted at an airport belonging to any armed force of the Union, for use by persons availing of any air transport services from such airport or for the handling of baggage or cargo by such service, and includes land comprising of any building and structure on such area. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(i)]...
Activity incident to service
Activity incident to service, means an act under-taken by a member of the armed forces as a part of a military operation or as a result of the actor's status as a member of the military, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 34....
Appeal
Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to the Court of Appeal (see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 27), from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords (see s. 3 of the (English) Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, c. 59), from the Petty Sessions to Quarter Sessions, where the appeal is by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, also Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, and SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), from the County Courts to the Court of Appeal (see s. 105 of the County Courts Act, 1934, and next title), and in criminal matters, to the Court of Criminal Appeal under the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, or under the (English) Crown Cases Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 78). Appeals to the House of Lords in forma pauperis are checked by the (English) Appeal (Forma Pauperis) Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 22)...
War
War. The sovereign has the sole prerogative of making war or peace.Where war actually prevails, the ordinary courts have no jurisdiction over the action of the military authorities (Ex parte D.F. Marais 1902 AC 115). See ARMY; DECLARATION OF WAR; and consult Owen's Declaration of War; Holland's Law of War on Land; Hall's International Law; Grot. De Jure Pac. et Bel.1. Hostile conflict by means of armed forces, carried on between nations, status or rulers, or sometime between parties, within the same nation or state, a period of such conflict 2. A dispute or competition between adversaries; 3. A straggle to scire a pervasive problem, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1576...
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland, that part of Ireland other than the Irish Free State. By the Government of Ireland Act, 1926, s. 1, Northern Ireland consists of six counties: Antrim, Armagh; Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, including boroughs of Belfast ad Londonderry, with (1) a representation of 13 members (including one from the Queen's University of Belfast) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (see IMPERIAL Parliament), and (2) a Parliament of Northern Ireland, consisting of the King, a Senate and a House of Commons. The supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament is preserved. The Royal Assent is given to Bills by the Governor of Northern Ireland. The Senate consists of 24 members, 22 elected by the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, and 2 (as ex-officio members), the Lord Mayor of Belfast and the Mayor of Londonderry. The House of Commons consists of 52 members. Certain legislative powers are reserved for the Imperial Parliament; see ss. 4 et seq. Of the A...
Rank
Rank, refers to a position, especially an official one, within a social organization, of high social order or other standing status, S.C. Advocate-on-Record Asn. v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 268.The word 'rank' has both a narrower as well as a wider meaning; in its ordinary sense as meaning grade or status, N.C. Dalwadi v. State of Gujarat,AIR 1987 SC 1933 (1937): (1987) 3 SCC 611: (1987) 3 SCR 640. [Bombay Civil Service Rules, 1959, R. 161(1)(c)(ii)(1)](ii) The expression 'rank', in 'reduction in rank' has, for purpose of Article 311 (2) an obvious reference to the stratification of the posts or grades or categories in the official hierarchy. It does not refer to the mere seniority of the government servant in the same class or grade or category, Nyadar Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 1979: (1988) 4 SCC 170: (1988) Supp 2 SCR 546.The expression 'rank' in Art. 311(2) has reference to a person's classification and not his particular place in the same cadre in the hierarchy of the...
enlisted
designating to those members of the armed forces not commissioned as an officer as an enlisted man...
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