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eight-hour law

eight-hour law : a law fixing the working day for specified types of employment at eight hours and frequently providing for time-and-a-half compensation for hours worked after eight hours ...

eight spot

a playing card with eight pips on the face an eight...

Regular service of eight years in the grade

Regular service of eight years in the grade, would connote rendering eight years of service in the organisation to which he has been appointed, State Bank of India v. D. Hanumantha Rao, (1998) 6 SCC 183....

Month

Month [fr. monath, Sax., moon, which was formerly written mone, as month was written moneth]. The period in which that planet moneth, i.e., completeth its orbit.It is either--(1) Lunar, the time between the change and change, or the time in which the moon returns to the same point, being twenty-eight days.(2) Solar, that period in which the sun passes through one of the twelve signs of the zodiac.(3) Calendar, by which we reckon time, consisting unequally of thirty or thirty-one days, except February, which consists of twenty-eight, and in leap year of twenty nine days. The calendar month is also nine days. The calendar month is also called usual, natural, civil, political.In an Act of Parliament (English), passed after 1850, the word 'month,' which was formerly taken to mean a lunar month, unless calendar month was specified, means calendar month; unless words be added pointing to lunar months [(English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (s. 3), repealing and re-enacting 13 Vict. c. 21]. By th...