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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...
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
Race of diligence
Race of diligence, A first come, first served disposition of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means a first-come, first-served disposition of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1265....
Per and post
Per and post. To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate, as the heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title, as the lord by escheat. See Co. Litt. 271 b, Harg., n. (1), II....
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Noviter ad notitiam perventa
Noviter ad notitiam perventa (matters newly come to the knowledge of a party). (matters newly come to the knowledge of a party)....
McDonnell Douglas test
McDonnell Douglas test, employment law. The principal for applying a shifting burden of proof in employment-discrimination cases, essentially requiring the plaintiff to come forward with evidence of discrimination and the defendant to come forward with evidence showing that the employment action complained of was taken for non-discriminatory reasons. Under this test, the plaintiff is first required to establish a prima facie case of discrimination, as by showing that the plaintiff is a member of a protected group and suffered an averse employment action. If the plaintiff satisfies that burden, then the defendant must articulate a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason for the employment action complained of. If the defendant satisfies that burden, then the plaintiff must prove that the defendant's stated reason is just a pretext for discrimination and that discrimination was the real reason for the employment action, Mc Donnell Douglas Corp v. Green, 411 US 792, 93 S.Ct. 1817 (1973); Bl...
Migrate
Migrate, The word 'migrate' may have in some contexts the wider meaning 'come or remove to a place without an intention to reside permanently' and in some context the narrower meaning 'come or remove to a place with the intention of residing there permanently', Shanno Devi v. Mangal Sain, AIR 1961 SC 58: (1961) 1 SCR 576....
Recur
To come back to return again or repeatedly to come again to mind...
accrue
accrue ac·crued ac·cru·ing [Middle French accreue increase, addition to a property, from feminine of accreu, past participle of acreistre to increase] vi 1 : to come into existence as an enforceable claim : vest as a right [action…does not until the plaintiff knew or reasonably should have known that he may have suffered injury "National Law Journal"] NOTE: Statutes of limitations begin to run when a cause of action accrues. 2 : to come by way of increase or addition : arise as a growth or result usually used with to or from [advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press] [interest s to the seller as a result of the delay] 3 : to be periodically accumulated in the process of time whether as an increase or a decrease [the accruing of taxes] [allowing the receivable interest to ] vt 1 : to accumulate or have due after a period of time [authorized by law to leave…in the maximum amount of 120 days "U.S. Code"] 2 : to enter in the books a...
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