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peculiar risk doctrine
peculiar risk doctrine : a doctrine that renders an employer (as a general contractor) liable for injury caused by an independent contractor if the employer failed to take reasonable precautions against a
prime
prime 1 : prime rate 2 : general contractor vt primed prim·ing : to have priority over [a perfected security interest s an unperfected one]
Written statement
connotation ordinarily signifying a reply to the plaint filed by the plaintiff. This specific word is followed by general words 'taking any other steps in the proceedings', Food Corpora-tion of India v. Yadav Engineer & Contractor, AIR
Bond
s. 2(f)] Bond, is a document made by deed whereby a third party guarantees the fulfilment by the contractor of the contract, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 477, p. 383. The definition of … the obligee. A bond is called single (simplex obligatio) when it is without a penalty, but there is generally a condition added, that, if the obligor does or forbears from some act, the obligation shall be void,
Employee
Employee, includes not only persons employed directly by the employer but also persons employed through a contractor. Moreover, they include not only persons employed in the factory but also persons employed in connection with the
Measure of damage
Measure of damage, the test which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the … of contract for sale of land are regulated as a rule on the following principles. In an open contractor in the absence of the usual conditions, upon breach by the purchaser the vendor cannot recover the price
Landlord and tenant
the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of … is excluded as a rule and the obligation becomes binding by privity of contract, so that the original contractors are bound during the whole term to each other by contract and to the assignees by privity of
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