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general contractor : a person or business entity that contracts to be in charge of a building project usually involving the use of subcontractors called also original contractor prime prime contractor ...
original contractor
original contractor : general contractor ...
prime contractor
prime contractor : general contractor ...
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 risk particular to the employee's work that the employer should have recognized ...
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
Written statement, expression 'written statement' is a term of specific 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 1982 SC 1302: (1982) 2 SCC 499 (509): (1983) 1 SCR 95. (Civil PC, O. 8, R. 1)The expression 'written statement' is a term of specific connotation ordinarily signifying a reply to the plaint filed by plaintiff, Rachappa Guruadappa Bijapur v. Gurusiddappa Nuraniappa, AIR 1989 SC 635: (1989) 3 SCC 245: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 884.Written statement. See New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Sanjay Devshri, AIR 2005 (NOC) (Guj) 574....
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
bond
bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
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 work of the factory, P.M. Patel and Sons v. Union of India, (1986) 1 SCC 32: AIR 1987 SC 447: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 55.A person who works in the service of another person (the employer) under an express or implied contract of hire under which the employer has the right to control the details of work performance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 543.Means a person appointed to or borne on thecadre of staff of the Corporation, other thanperson on deputation. [Employees' State Insurance Corporation (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1995, s. 2(1)(e)]Means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University, Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(k).In relation to the University, means a person other than a teacher or an office...
agent
agent 1 : someone or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president "Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)"] see also innocent agent 3 a : a person or entity (as an employee or independent contractor) authorized to act on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties see also agency, fiduciary relationship, subagent compare fiduciary, principal, servant apparent agent : an agent acting under an agency by estoppel bar·gain·ing agent : a labor union that represents the employees in a bargaining unit in negotiating with their employer through collective bargaining business agent : an agent that handles business affairs for another person or organization ;esp : a paid official of a union who carries on union business between the employ...
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