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occupational disease

ordinary risks to which the general public is exposed and that renders one eligible for workers' compensation compare disability

Handicapped

Handicapped, means a person-(i) visually handi-capped; (ii) hearing handicapped; (iii) suffering from locomotor disability; or (iv) suffering from mental retardation. [Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992 (34 of 1992), s. 2(1) (c)]

Oasdhi

Oasdhi, means Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1099.

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public accommodations

the law at issue (i.e. federal or state), and the type of discrimination involved (i.e. race discrimination or disability discrimination). Generally speaking, it may help to think of public accommodations as most (but not all) businesses or

Non-ability

Non-ability, inability; an exception against a person, Fitz. N.B. 35, 65. See DISABILITY.

Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

that actions for merchants' accounts must be brought within six years; (10) that absence beyond seas is no disability availing the plaintiff within the Statute of Limitations; and (11) that part payment by one co-contractor is not

Mahr (dower)

that law marriage does not make her property the property of the husband, nor does coverture impose any disability upon her as to freedom of contract. The marriage contract is easily dissoluble, and the freedom of divorce

Invalid carriage

and constructed, and not merely adapted, for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability, and used solely by or for such a person. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2

Incapacitated person

A person who is impaired by an intoxicant, by mental illness or deficiency, or by physical illness or disability to the extent that personal decision-making is impossible, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 763.

Immunity

liability. It is an immunity from the legal power of some other person. The correlative of immunity is disability, Shanti Kumar R Chanji v. House Insurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722). Immunity, is -- 'freedom

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