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National insurance

or share in profits who is either so employed by more than one employer and is not mainly dependent on his earnings from anyone of them, or is mainly dependent on his earnings from some other source.

Workmen's Compensation Act

543. Compensation is payable in respect of personal injury by accident (see ACCIDENT) to the workman or his dependants (see DEPENDANT), and the amount is based upon his average weekly earnings (s. 9). The minimum compensation payable

Shall

(1976) 1 SCC 719. Shall, does not always mean that an act is obligatory or mandatory and it depends upon the context in which the word 'shall' occurs and the other circumstances, Ramnath Narayana Mauzo of Margoa

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Perpetuity

of an absolute or partial interest, positively and necessarily to vest within the period prescribed, and not to depend upon a mere possibility. Moreover, not only the person to take, but also the precise amount of his

Jurisdictional fact

an Authority assumes jurisdiction over a particular matter. Jurisdictional fact is one on existence or non-existence of which depends jurisdiction of a court, a tribunal or authority. It is a fact upon which an administrative agency's power

Goodwill

Setty, AIR 1981 SC 972: (1981) 3 SCC 460: (1981) 2 SCR 938. The goodwill of a business depends upon a variety of circumstances or a combination of them. The location, the service, the standing of the

Any

to indicate 'all' or 'every' as well as 'some' or 'one' and its meaning in a given statute depends upon the context and the subject- matter of the statute. It is often synonymous with 'either', 'every' or

Annuity

made periodically should be a fixed or predetermined one, and it should not be liable to any variation depending upon or on any ground relating to the general income of the fund or estate which is charged

Enthymeme

two propositions an antecedent and consequent deduced from it a syllogism with one premise omitted as We are dependent therefore we should be humble Here the major proposition is suppressed The complete syllogism would be Dependent creatures

Certiorari

judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them, to the end that justice maybe done. Certiorari lies to remove into the High Court of

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