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dram shop act : a law imposing civil liability on the owner of an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages to an intoxicated person who causes injury to another as a result of the intoxication called also civil damage act civil liability act ...
civil damage act
civil damage act : dram shop act ...
civil liability act
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Shop
Shop, a place where thins are kept for sale, usually in small quantities, to the actual consumers. By (English) Shops Act, 1912, s. 19, 'shop' includes any premises where any 'retail trade or business' is carried on; 'retail trade or business' includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but not the sale of programmes, etc., at places of amusement.A business establishment or place of employment; a factory, office, or other place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1384.The (English) Shops Act, 1934, deals with the employment of persons under eighteen years, repealing s. 2 of the (English) Shops Act, 1912; but the other provisions are unaffected. The 1934 Act, s. 1, provides that no young person (under eighteen) shall be employed for more than the normal maximum working hours, that is, forty-eight hours in any week; it makes restrictions on right employment, has special provisions as to the catering trade, the sale of accessories for Aircraft, motor vehicles and cycle...
closed shop
closed shop : a business in which the employer by agreement hires and retains only union members see also Labor Management Relations Act in the Important Laws section compare open shop, union shop NOTE: Closed shops are illegal under the Labor Management Relations Act. ...
Jews
Jews. Several Statutes were passed in the reign of Queen Victoria respecting the Jews. See 8 & 9 Vict. c. 52, giving them relief as to municipal offices; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 58, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 21, 22 as to their marriages; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, s. 5, amended by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 63, as to their making declara-tions as a qualification for office; and the Jews Relief Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 49), empowering either house of Parliament by resolution to allow them to omit the words 'upon the true faith of a Christian' from the form of oath then required to be taken by members of Parliament. The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 72), has since prescribed a form of oath containing no reference to the faith of a Christian, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), repeals 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, and the Jews Relief Act, 1858, except s. 4, which provides that the official patronage of a professing Jew shall devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury. By s. 3 of...
Dram
Dram, 1/16 of an ounce [(English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878, s. 14]. Not to be confused with drachm (q.v.) of the Apothecaries' weights...
Truck Acts (1831 to 1896)
Truck Acts (1831 to 1896) (English) (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 37; 50 & 51 Vict. c. 46, and 59 & 60 Vict. c. 43), the Truck Act, 1831, the Truck Amendment Act, 1887, and the Truck Act, 1896, passed to prevent the payment of wages in goods instead of in money. The plan had been for masters to establish warehouses or shops, and the workmen in their employ have either had their wages accounted for to them by supplies of goods from such depots, without receiving any money, or they have had the money given to them with an express understanding that they were to resort to the warehouses or shops of their masters for the articles of which they stood in need. This system is made illegal by the Truck Acts. A deduction from wages in respect of damages awarded to an employer in an action is a violation of these Acts, Williams v. North's Navigation Collieries, 1906 AC 136....
union shop
union shop : a unionized business in which the employer by agreement is free to hire nonmembers as well as members of the union but union membership within a specified time (as 30 days) is a condition of continued employment compare agency shop, closed shop, open shop NOTE: State law determines whether a collective bargaining agreement can have a clause creating a union shop. Many states having right-to-work laws bar union shop agreements. ...
Dramming
The practice of drinking drams...
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