Break In - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: break in Page: 5Contract, breach of, inducement of
Contract, breach of, inducement of. In the case of seamen it is by s. 236 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, an offence to persuade or attempt to persuade seamen or apprentices to desert or absent themselves from duty. As to whether such inducement can, apart from any statutory provision, be an actionable wrong, see Lumley v. Gye, (1853) 2 E&B 216, and Temperton v. Russell, (1893) 1 QB 715; but the principles laid down in these cases were commented on in Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. An Act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a 'trade dispute,' q.v. as defined by the (English) Trades Disputes and Trade Unions Act,1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 22), is not actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment. [(English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906, s. 3]...
Constructive total loss
Constructive total loss, a term used in the law of marine insurance to denote a loss which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of his insurance, on giving to the assurers notice of abandonment. Generally there is a constructive total loss when the subject-matter assured has not actually perished or lost its form or species, but has, by one of the perils insured against, been reduced to such a state or placed in such a position as to make its total destruction, though not inevitable, yet highly imminent, or its ultimate arrival under the terms of the policy, though not utterly hopeless, yet exceedingly doubtful. In such a case the assured, by giving notice within a reasonable time to the assurers of abandonment, i.e., the relinquishment of all his right to whatever may be saved, is entitled to recover against them as for a total loss.If notice is not given, the loss is treated as a partial loss unless the ship in fact has become a total loss or if there would be no possibilit...
Shatter
To break at once into many pieces to dash burst or part violently into fragments to rend into splinters as an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb too much steam shatters a boiler an oak is shattered by lightning...
Shim
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds...
Petard
A case containing powder to be exploded esp a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank to be exploded against and break down gates barricades drawbridges etc It has been superseded...
Septifragal
Breaking from the partitions said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions and these remain attached to the common axis...
Reveille
The beat of drum or bugle blast about break of day to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise and for the sentinels to forbear challenging...
Refract
To bend sharply and abruptly back to break off...
Prong hoe
A hoe with prongs to break the earth...
Plow
A well known implement drawn by horses mules oxen or other power for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes as the subsoil plow the draining plow...
- << Prev.
- Next >>