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Contract

Matched in: Term Contract

Bailment

Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust

Goods

in the Sale of Goods Act, sale of timber agreed to be severed under the terms of the contract may be regarded as sale of goods, State of Maharashtra v. Champalal Kishanlal Mohota, AIR 1971 SC 908: … The timber was 'goods' within the meaning of s. 2(7) of the Sale of Goods Act,1930 and the expression 'sale of goods' in the Constitution in Entry 54, List II, having the same meaning as that expression

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Lien

in respect to other dealings of the like nature. General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties.

Contract for sale of land

Matched in: Term Contract for sale of land

Subject to contract

Matched in: Term Subject to contract

Contract for work or service contract for sale of goods

Matched in: Term Contract for work or service contract for sale of goods

Debt

debts, see that title. Debts are assignable at law, if the assignment is absolute and in writing, where express written notice of the assignment is given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor … or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and it was generally founded on some contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law

Wages

AIR 1966 SC 856. Means remuneration which an employer is liable to pay, if the term of the contract of employment are fulfilled. In other words, they are payments made by an employer for services rendered, G.M. … SCC 43: (1974) 3 SCR 221. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment), Act, 1966, s. 31] The expression 'wages' does not imply that the compensation is to be determined solely upon the basis of time spent

Workmen's Compensation Act

with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, electrical work or otherwise, and whether the contract is express or implied, is oral or in writing, and also includes a person engaged in plying for hire with

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