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that allows an employee to recover from an employer for injuries sustained while going to or coming from work NOTE: The special hazard rule applies when the place at which the injury occurred was along the only … special hazard rule : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows an employee to recover from an

going and coming rule

cannot receive workers' compensation benefits for injuries suffered while coming to or going from work see also special hazard rule, special mission exception

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Enterprise

to be performed a work projected which involves activity courage energy and the like a bold arduous or hazardous attempt an undertaking as a manly enterprise a warlike enterprise

Winning

964: (1967) 1 SCR 695. [Constitution of India, Art. 31A (1)(e)] Winning a mineral does not imply a hazardous or perilous activity. The word simply means 'extracting a mineral' and is used generally to indicated any activity … make excavation so as to reach a seam of coal or vein of ore and prepare it for working. The expression 'to win' interpreted in the English cases was in respect of the context of the expression

knowledge

or fact that affects another who was not aware of it [denied having had superior knowledge of the hazard] [superior knowledge of a factor in the performance of a contract] 2 : the range of one's information, … ; specif : such awareness considered as a timely and sufficient substitute for actual notice (as of a work-related injury or of a bankruptcy proceeding) [ruled that the employer did not have actual notice or actual knowledge

Desertion

to remain away therefrom permanently; (2) quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or (3) without being regularly separated from one of the armed forces … the four years desirous of co-habitation, and ready to renew it. Rayden on Divorce which is a standard work on the subject at p. 128 (6th Edn.) has summarised the case-law on the subject in these terms:'

Negligence

' it may be active negligence, collateral negligence, comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, continued negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence, hazardous negligence, active and passive negligence, willful or reckless negligence or negligence per se, Poonam Verma v. Ashwin Patel, … the Dominion case, ubi supra. So also an employer is liable for an accident arising out of dangerous work, even if he employs an independent contractor, Honeywill v. Stein Ltd. v. Larkin Brothers, etc., Ltd., (1934) 1

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