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Come along
A gripping device as for stretching wire etc consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring...
special hazard rule
special hazard rule : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows an employee to recover from an employer for injuries sustained while going to or coming from work NOTE: The special hazard rule applies when the place at which the injury occurred was along the only available route or when the employee would not have been there if not for the employment and usually the risks associated with the location are distinctive or greater than the risk common to the public. ...
By
In the neighborhood of near or next to not far from close to along with as come and sit by me...
Dancing hall
Dancing hall, 'dancing hall' as understood in the ordinary parlance is a place where dancing floor is provided and live orchestra or music in any other form is played to entertain the guests who wish to come on the floor and dance. Dancing halls are peculiar to the Western social life. In the cosmopolitan cities in this country, even today, one finds number of dancing halls and discotheques where people go in the evenings and entertain themselves. There seems to be no difference in a 'dancing hall' and a 'restaurant' where a proper dancing floor is provided and the guests entertain themselves by using the floor to the tune of live or recorded music. Simply because the recreation in the shape of dancing is provided along with a posheating place would not make it different than a 'dancing hall' where drinks and eatables are also invariably provided, Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. East India Hotels, AIR 1995 SC 419 (423): (1994) 5 SCC 690. [Calcutta Municipal Act, 1951 (33 of 1951), s....
Forfeiture
Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby he loses it, together with his title, which devolves upon others.Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts.(2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914 (substituted for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870), subject to certain provisoes, enables ali...
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