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Disabling Statutes, Acts of Parliament restraining and regulating the exercise of a right or the power of alienation; the term is especially applied to 1 Eliz. c. 19, and similar Acts, restraining the power of ecclesiastical corporations to make leases....
permanent partial disability (ppd)
permanent partial disability (ppd) PPD benefits are payable, in most jurisdictions, to an employee who has sustained a permanent, but not complete, disability. Many state statutes have pre-set values for a host of different PPD injuries involving specific body parts or conditions. ...
social security disability benefits (ssdi)
social security disability benefits (ssdi) SSDI benefits are payable to disabled individuals through the Social Security Administration. Many state workers' compensation statutes have specific provisions which dictate whether an injured employee may receive both workers' compensation benefits and SSDI benefits at the same time. Generally, if both benefits are appropriate for the same individual, a complex calculation will be performed to "offset" the benefits so that the individual does not receive more money than they are entitled to from both programs. ...
total disability
total disability : a degree of disability considered sufficient (as according to statute or in an insurance policy) to make one unable to engage in gainful work ...
Retrospective law
Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward or contemplates the past; one which is made to affect acts or facts occurring, or rights occurring, before it came into force. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past. Retroactive statute means a statute which creates a new obligation on transactions or considerations already past or destroys or impairs vested rights, Darshan Singh v. Ram Pal Singh, AIR 1991 SC 1654: (1992) Supp 1 SCC 191....
Retrospective statutes
Retrospective statutes, means 'a statute is to be deemed to be retrospective, which takes away or impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or consideration already past, Craies on Statute Law, 7th Edn., p. 387....
Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)
Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English) (19 & 20 Vict. c. 97). Its principal enactments are: (1) that a writ of execution shall not effect a title bona fide acquired before seizure; (2) that in an action for breach of contract to deliver goods sold, a writ for the delivery of the goods may be obtained (these two ss. are repealed by the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and reproduced by ss. 26 and 52 of that Act); (3) that the consideration for a guarantee need not appear in writing; (4) that a guarantee to or for a firm ceases upon a change in the firm (this s. is repealed by the Partnership Act, 1890, and reproduced by s. 18 of that Act); (5) that a surety who discharges a liability is to be entitled to an assignment of all securities held by the creditor; (Ss. 6 and 7) that an acceptance of a bill of exchange must be in writing, and that 'inland bill of exchange' bears a certain definition-these two sections are repealed by the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, and reproduced by ss. 7 and 17...
Papist
Papist [fr. papa, Lat., a pope], one who, adhering to the communion of the Church of Rome, maintains the supreme ecclesiastical power of the Pope, as contradistinguished from English Protestants who in Statutes, Canons, and the 36th Article of Religion maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign. From the date of the Reformation Papists, either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish recusants convict, were subjected, by one statute after another, to various civil and religious disabilities, the removal of which began in 1788, and was to a great extent completed by the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829, which Act and other Acts, the earliest being an Act of 1791, speak of them as Roman Catholics. See ROMAN CATHO-LICS, and consult Lilly and Wallis's Manual of the Law specially affecting Catholics (1893)....
benefit
benefit 1 : something that provides an advantage or gain ;specif : an enhancement of property value, enjoyment of facilities, or increase in general prosperity arising from a public improvement general benefit : a benefit to the community at large resulting from a public improvement special benefit : a benefit from a public improvement that directly enhances the value of particular property and is not shared by the community at large NOTE: In proceedings for a partial taking for the purpose of a public improvement, the condemning authority may use a special benefit to the remaining land as a set-off against the landowner's damages for the taking. 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : a right esp. that serves to limit a person's liability benefit of dis·cus·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing creditor to sue the principal first benefit of di·vi·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing creditor to also sue the cosureti...
coverture
coverture [Anglo-French, literally, shelter, covering, from Old French, from covert, past participle of covrir to cover] : the inclusion of a woman in the legal person of her husband upon marriage under common law NOTE: Because of coverture, married women formerly did not have the legal capacity to hold their own property or contract on their own behalf. These disabilities have been removed for the most part by statute. ...
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