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Domestics, menial servants (so called from being intra m'nia domus, within the walls of a house). The contract between them and their masters arises upon the hiring. In this country it is usual to engage domestic servants at a fixed amount of wages per annum. But there is generally no express stipulation as to the time that the service is to last; and when the terms are not otherwise defined the contract is thus understood that either party may determine the service at pleasure, upon a month's warning or upon payment of a month's wages. As to the persons entitled under a bequest to 'domestic servants,' see Re Lawson, (1914) 1 Ch 682; Re Jackson, 39 TLR 400. See MASTER AND SERVANT.For the purposes of Unemployment Insurance, employment in domestic service, except where the employed in any trade or business carried on for the purpose of gain, is an excepted employment under the (English) Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1935 and 1936 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 8) and (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 13). H...
Domestic animals, livestock
Domestic animals, livestock, livestock means domestic animals especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (See Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705: AIR 2004 SC 2341 (2345)....
Domestic animal
Domestic animal, means any animal which is tamed or which has been or is being sufficiently tamed to serve some purpose for the use of man or which, although it neither has been nor is being nor is intended to be so tamed, is or has become in fact wholly or partly tamed. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2 (d)]Domestic animals includes all those domestic or tame animals as by habit or training live in association with man; Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 202, p. 83...
Domestic incident report
Domestic incident report, means a report made in the prescribed from on receipt of a complaint of domestic violence from an aggrieved person [Protection of Women for Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (43 of 2005), s. 2(e)]...
domestic partnerships
domestic partnerships Legal recognition of unmarried homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, offered by some state and local governments. Domestic partnerships offer some of the same benefits enjoyed by married persons -- including the right to share health insurance coverage, and rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). ...
Domestically
In a domestic manner privately with reference to domestic affairs...
Domesticate
To make domestic to habituate to home life as to domesticate ones self...
Domesticity
The state of being domestic domestic character household life...
Commercial and domestic
Commercial and domestic, in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Fifth Edition) the term 'commercial' is defined as 'traffic, trade or merchandise in buying and selling of goods'. In the said dictionary the phrase 'domestic purpose' is stated to mean use for personal residential purposes. In essence the question is, what is the character of the purpose of user of the premises by the owner or landlord and not the character of the place of user. The New Delhi Municipal Council is entitled to charge for use of electricity in a guest house at the rate applicable to 'commercial' use, New Delhi Municipal Council v. Sohan Lal Sachdev, (2000) 2 SCC 494: AIR 2000 SC 1859 (1861). [Electricity Act, 1910, s. 23]...
Domestic purpose
Domestic purpose, in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) the term 'domestic purpose' is stated to mean use for personal residential purposes, N.D.M.C. v. Sohan Lal Sachdev, (2000) 2 SCC 494 (497)...
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