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Wrong, injury and damage, the word 'wrong' in ordinary legal language means and signifies 'privation of right'. An act is wrongful if it infringes the legal right of another, and 'actionable' means nothing else than that if affords grounds for action in law. 'Ordinarily, the word 'injury' is used in the same sense of actionable wrong, while 'damage' in contrast with injury means loss or harm occurring in fact whether actionable as injury or not, State of Tripura v. Province of Bengal, AIR 1995 1 SC 23 (39)...
Malicious Damage Act, 1861
Malicious Damage Act, 1861 [(English) 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97], consolidating and amending the law as to arson (q.v.) and other damage to property. The Act has been amended by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 14; also (animals), 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27, and 2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 17; (fishing waters), 13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16; (trees and commons). 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86; (ancient monuments), 19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17, and other Acts....
workers' compensation
workers' compensation 1 : compensation for injury to an employee arising out of and in the course of employment that is paid to the worker or dependents by an employer whose strict liability for such compensation is established by statute NOTE: Where established by statute, workers' compensation is generally the exclusive remedy for injuries arising from employment, with some exceptions. Workers' compensation statutes commonly include explicit exclusions for injury caused intentionally, by willful misconduct, and by voluntary intoxication from alcohol or illegal drugs. 2 : workers' compensation insurance ...
Re-compensation
Re-compensation. Where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i.e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a re-compensation, Scots Law Term....
Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890
Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890 (English) (53 & 54 Vict. c. 57), repealed by and see now the Allotments Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 57), ss. 1 and 4 (2). At Common Law a mortgagor, and therefore any tenant of his becoming such after mortgage with-out concurrence of the mortgagee, is a mere tres-passer, liable to ejectment without notice, and so liable to lose all his growing crops, etc., without compensation from the mortgagee. The Tenants' Compensation Act, to remedy this hardship, provided that where a person occupies land under a contract of tenancy (whenever made) with the mortgagor, which is not binding on the mortgagee, the occupier shall, as against the mortgagee who takes possession, be entitled to such compensation for crops, improvements, or other matters whatever, under the custom of the country, or the Agricultural Holdings Act, as would be due to him but for the mortgagee taking possession; and further gives such occupier a right to six months' notice, before being depri...
Assessment of damages
Assessment of damages, the assessment of damages is split into two parts. The first part comprises damages for the period between death and trial. The multiplicand is multiplied by the number of years which have elapsed between those two decades. Interest at one half of the short-term investment rule is also awarded on that multiplicand. The second party's damages for the period from the trial onwards from that period, the number of years which have based on the number of years that the expectancy would probably have lasted: central to that calculation is the probable length of the deceased's working life at the date of death, Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation v. Krishna Bala, AIR 2006 SC 2688....
unemployment compensation
unemployment compensation : compensation paid at regular intervals (as by a state agency) to an unemployed worker and esp. one who has been laid off called also unemployment benefit NOTE: Unemployment compensation is usually a fixed percentage of the former wages of an unemployed worker. ...
Compensation and interest
Compensation and interest, The Legislature being well aware of the distinction between compensation and interest thereon employed clear language which leaves no room for doubt that under sub-s. (2) interest was payable in its well-known and well-understood sense and it could never form a part of the compensation money, Chandroji Rao v. Commissioner of Income-tax, (1970) 2 SCC 1582 (1584): AIR 1970 SC 1582: (1971) 1 SCR 422. [Madhya Bharat Abolition of Jagir Act (28 of 1951), s. 8(2)]...
just compensation
just compensation : compensation for property taken under eminent domain that places a property owner in the same position as before the property is taken see also eminent domain NOTE: Just compensation is usually the fair market value of the property taken. Attorney's fees or expenses are usually excluded. ...
compensation
compensation 1 : the act of compensating 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : the ending of mutual obligations between two people for money or quantities of fungible things usually by operation of law but sometimes by an agreement 3 : something that makes up for a loss [received for the breach of contract] ;specif : payment to unemployed or injured workers or their dependents see also unemployment compensation, workers' compensation 4 : payment for a thing of value tendered or a service rendered [the Senators and Representatives shall receive for their services "U.S. Constitution art. I"] ...
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