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affiliate

corporation] af·fil·i·a·tion [ə-fi-lē-ā-shən] n [ə-fi-lē-ət] n : an affiliated person or organization ;specif : a business entity effectively controlling or controlled by another or associated with others under common ownership or control compare parent, subsidiary

law

1 : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a : a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute b : something

power

under Article I of the U.S. Constitution police power : the power of a government to exercise reasonable control over persons and property within its jurisdiction in the interest of the general security, health, safety, morals, and

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pierce

pierce the corporate veil : to disregard the corporate entity and reach the personal assets of the corporation's controlling parties : hold the controlling parties (as officers or shareholders) of a corporation personally liable for wrongful acts

res ipsa loquitur

any voluntary action or contribution by the plaintiff. The doctrine has traditionally required that a defendant have exclusive control over the instrumentality of an injury, but now it is commonly applied when multiple defendants have joint or

Cascade system

or concatenated system the connection a cascade connection tandem connection or concatenated connection or a concatenation and the control of the motors so obtained a tandem control or concatenation control

Building

but does not include a room in a hotel or boarding house. A.P. Building (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act, 1960, Nandan Mahamma v. Markonda Narasimha Rao, AIR 2006 AP 8. The word 'building' has not been

Custody

Custody, The word is of elastic semantics but its core meaning is that the law has taken control of the person, Nianjan Singh v. Prabhakar Rajaram Kharote, (1980) 2 SCC 559: AIR 1980 SC 785 (787):

Editor

term 'editor' is defined in the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 to mean a person who controls the selection of the matter that is published in a newspaper, State of Maharashtra v. Dr. R.B. Chawdhari,

Employer and contractor

between the employer and the employee where under the employee agrees to serve the employer subject to his control and supervision. A 'contractor' is a person who, in the pursuit of an independent business, undertakes to do

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