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League of Nations (Societe des Nations)
of marked help to the Foreign Offices in handling many problems. The first Secretary-General of the League was Sir Eric Drummond; in 1933 he was succeeded by M. Avenol.
Wages
v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1958 SC 518: (1958) SCR 1504. [Payment of Wages Act, 1936, s. 2 (vi)] Sir William Anson's definition of 'wager' as a promise to give money or money's worth upon the determination or … the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering
Pardon
give him new credit and capacity. Nevertheless the judgment remains formally unreserved, and therefore it was proposed by Sir F. Pollock, A.-G., that when the Crown pardons any adjudged guilty on the ground that the evidence rightly … pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of
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Water and watercourse
a price to be agreed on between the Board and the companies, or in default of agreement by Sir Edward Fry (formerly Fry, L.J.), Sir Hugh Owen, and Sir J.W. Barry. The supply of water to their … recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl.
Marriage
consent to or acquiesce in the person not in holy orders.' As to marriage by a pretended clergyman, Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell, in Hawke v. Corri, (1820) 2 Hagg Cons 288, says: 'It seems to … Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to
National insurance
on National Insurance; and for a general outline of National Health Insurance, see National Health Insurance Manual by Sir Kingsley Wood and T.S. Newman, and the Summary of the National Health Insurance Acts, published by H.M. Stationery
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