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at-will A term used to describe many employment relationships. In a nutshell, "at-will" means that an employee can be fired for any reason, or for no reason at all. However, even an at-will employee is entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws. If an employee is terminated in violation of anti-discrimination laws, he or she may be able to successfully bring an action against the former employer. ...
At will
At will, means subject to one's discretion; as one wishes or chooses; esp. (of a legal relationship), able to be terminated or discharged by either party without cause e.g. employment at will, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 125....
Partnership at will
Partnership at will, a 'partnership at will' is that it is open to either partner to dissolve the partnership by giving notice, Karumuthu Thiagarajan Chettiar v. E.M. Muthappa Chettiar, AIR 1961 SC 1225 (1230): (1961) 3 SCR 998....
Tenant at Will
Tenant at Will. See WILL, ESTATE AT....
at-will employment
at-will employment A type of employment relationship in which there is no contractual agreement and either party may end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, without incurring a penalty ...
estate at will
estate at will see estate ...
partnership at will
partnership at will see partnership ...
tenancy at will
tenancy at will see tenancy ...
Will, Estate at
Will, Estate at. This estate entitled the grantee or lessee to the possession of land during the pleasure of both the grantor and himself, yet it creates no sure or durable right, and is bounded by no definite limits as to duration. It must be at the reciprocal will of both parties expressly or by implication (Co. Litt. 55 a), and the dissent of either determines it. The grantee cannot transfer the estate to another, although after he has entered into possession he may accept a release of the inheritance from the grantor, for there exists a privity between them. It must end at the death of either party, for death deprives a person of the power of having any will. If a lessee for years accept an estate at will in the property lease, his term of years would in law be surrendered.An estate at will is created either by the stipulation or express agreement of the parties, or by construc-tion of law.S. 54 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, enacts that a lease by parol for a longer term than t...
Sufferance, Tenancy at
Sufferance, Tenancy at. This is the least and lowest estate which can subsist in realty. It is in strictness not an estate, but a mere possession only it arises when a person after his right to the occupation, under a lawful title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement or disagreement of the person in whom the right of possession resides. Thus if A is a tenant for yes, and his term expires, or is a tenant at will, and his lessor dies, and he continues in possession without the disagreement of the person who is entitled to the same, in the one and the other of these cases he said to have the possession by sufferance-that is, merely by permission or indulgence, without any right: the law esteeming it just and reasonable, and for the interest of the tenant, and also of the person entitled to the possession, to deem the occupation to be continued by the permission of the person who has the right, till it is proved that the tenant ...
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