Errand - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: errandErrand
A special business intrusted to a messenger something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose often a verbal message a commission as the servant was sent on an errand to do an errand Also ones purpose in going anywhere...
special mission exception
special mission exception : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows recovery under workers' compensation to an employee who was injured while going to or coming from work on an errand that was part of the employee's regular duties or that was at the request of the employer or otherwise within the scope of the employment ...
bellboy
someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels...
Boxing day
The first week day after Christmas a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen errand boys employees etc The night of this day is boxing night...
Cadie
A Scotch errand boy porter or messenger...
Commissionaire
One intrusted with a commission now only a small commission as an errand esp an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office hotel or the like...
Envoy
One dispatched upon an errand or mission a messenger esp a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty or transact other business with a foreign sovereign or government a minister accredited to a foreign government An envoys rank is below that of an ambassador...
Gallopin
An under servant for the kitchen a scullion a cooks errand boy...
Page
A serving boy formerly a youth attending a person of high degree especially at courts as a position of honor and education now commonly in England a youth employed for doing errands waiting on the door and similar service in households in the United States a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress...
Messenger
Messenger, one who carries an errand; a forerunner.Messengers are certain officers employed under the direction of the Secretaries of State, and always ready to be sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice, 2 Hawk. P.C., c. xvi., s. 9.There are other officers distinguished by this appellation, as the messengers of the Lord Chancellor, Privy Council, and Exchequer, etc. Also, in bankruptcy, persons officially appointed who seize a bankrupt's property. The office of messenger of the Great Seal was abolished by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 81...
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