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Hire
satisfactorily established in our jurisprudence is a matter for consideration, since the Common Law does not furnish any direct recognition of them. But it may be safely affirmed that they are so consonant with general justice, and … Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring
Piracy
see Walter v. Steinkopff, (1892) 3 Ch 489. The remedies for piracy are an action at law for damages, and an injunction to restrain its continuance. See INJUNCTION and COPYRIGHT. … such a vessel unless it refuses to submit to visit and search after warning or to proceed as directed after seizure; (c) the destruction of such a vessel unless the crew and passengers have been first placed
Salary or wages
2(21) of the Act is wide enough to cover the payment of retaining allowance to the work-men, Managing Director, Chalthan Vibhag Sahakari Khand Udyog v. Government Labour Officer, AIR 1981 SC 905: (1981) 2 SCC 147: (1981) … for the benefit of the employee under any law for the time being in force. (vi) any retrenchment compensation or any gratuity or other retirement benefit payable to the employee or any ex gratia payment made to
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Game
Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys. At Common Law game belongs to … 17; Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1893, s. 2; (English) Hares Preservation Act, 1892, s. 2. Compensation for Damage by.By the Common Law, the moment a man brings game on to land to an unreasonable amount, or
contract
the purchase price as agreed upon called also contract for deed land contract maritime contract : a contract directly relating to the navigation, business, or commerce of the high seas or other navigable waters and falling within … consideration. des·ti·na·tion contract : a contract for goods stipulating that the seller assumes the risk of loss from damage to the goods until they arrive at the destination specified in the contract compare shipment contract in this
Employer
the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)] Employer, means: A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, … person while the workman is working for him. [Employers' Liability Act, 1938, s. 2 (b); Also see Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (4 of 1936), s. 2 (1) (e)] Includes the legal representative of a deceased employer. [Payment
Directors
Directors, persons appointed or elected according to law, authorized to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or … authority of 'experts,' or official documents, see s. 37(1)(iv.). By sub-s. (3) any director becoming liable to pay damages under the Act is entitled to contribution from his co-directors, unless the co-directors were innocent, and he was
Family
the hands of a few persons or families. Such is not the intendment, nor the drive, nor the direct and inevitable consequence of the aforesaid definition of 'family', Maharao Saheb Shri Bhim Singhji v. Union of India, … would make provision (p. 311). The general or ordinarily accepted meaning of the word 'family', as used in Compensation Act, means a group comprising immediate kindred, consisting of the parents and their children, whether actually living together
Court
appellate jurisdiction. The High Court has power to issue to any person or authority, including any government, orders, directions or writs including the writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo-warranto and certiorary for the … Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s.
Insurance
Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act, 1930 (20 & 21Geo. 5, c. 25), gives third parties right to direct recourse against the insurers where the insured has insured against liabilities to third parties and the insured has … say, the issue of, or the undertaking of liability under, policeinsuring employers against liability to pay compensation or damages to workmen in their employment; (e) Bond investment business; that is to say, the business of issuing bonds
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