Exposure - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: exposureindecent exposure
indecent exposure : the exposing of one's private body parts (as the genitals) either recklessly or intentionally and under circumstances likely to cause offense or affront NOTE: Indecent exposure is generally classified as a misdemeanor. ...
Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure, an indictable offence at Common Law. Exposure of the person in or in view of any public street or place of resort, with intent to insult any female, is also an offence summarily punish-able under the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4.Means an offensive display of one's body in public, esp. of the genitals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 772....
exposure
exposure 1 : the fact or condition of being exposed ;also : the possibility of loss caused by an outside source used in insurance 2 : the act or an instance of exposing 3 : something that exposes someone or something ;esp : something (as a condition, situation, or action) that creates a risk of financial loss esp. for which one may be insured [two forms of insurance are needed to cover the fully "R. I. Mehr"] ;also : the extent to which one is at risk ...
last injurious exposure rule
last injurious exposure rule : a rule placing liability for workers' compensation on the last employer of a worker disabled as a result of injuries or conditions suffered under two or more successive employers ...
dosimeter badge
a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation sensitive material such as film worn in a small package on a persons clothing to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time used to monitor the exposure of individuals such as workers in a nuclear power plant to ionizing radiation...
mercurialism
The syndrome produced by poisoning due to exposure to mercury it fumes or its compounds mercury poisoning Such exposure may occur in mining or smelting or in using mercurial compounds...
Accident
Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL).The meaning to be attached to the word accident,' in relation to equitable relief, is some unforeseen and undersigned event, productive of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives.In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE.The popular and ordinary sense of the word 'accident' means the mishap or an untowa...
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
blackmail
blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent] : extortion or coercion by often written threats esp. of public exposure, physical harm, or criminal prosecution blackmail vt black·mail·er [-mā-lər] n ...
due diligence
due diligence 1 : such diligence as a reasonable person under the same circumstances would use : use of reasonable but not necessarily exhaustive efforts called also reasonable diligence NOTE: Due diligence is used most often in connection with the performance of a professional or fiduciary duty, or with regard to proceeding with a court action. Due care is used more often in connection with general tort actions. 2 a : the care that a prudent person might be expected to exercise in the examination and evaluation of risks affecting a business transaction b : the process of investigation carried on usually by a disinterested third party (as an accounting or law firm) on behalf of a party contemplating a business transaction (as a corporate acquisition or merger, loan of finances, or esp. purchase of securities) for the purpose of providing information with which to evaluate the advantages and risks involved [the greatest exposure…for failure to conduct adequate due diligence...
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