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Carrier

sense, a person who undertakes to transport the goods of other persons from one place to another for hire. It is not, however, every person who undertakes to carry goods for hire that is deemed a common

Workmen's Compensation Act

is express or implied, is oral or in writing, and also includes a person engaged in plying for hire with any vehicle or vessel the use of which is obtained from the owner thereof under any contract

Consumer

does not include a person who obtains such goods for resale or for any commercial purpose; or (ii) hires or avails of any services for a consideration which has been paid or promised or partly paid and

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Prostitute

Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR

Owner

using a boiler as agent of the owner thereof and any person using a boiler which he has hired or obtained on loan from the owner thereof. [Indian Boilers Act, 1923, s. 2 (d)] Includes any person

Credit-brokerage

far as it relates to the provision of credit; or (b) of individuals desiring to obtain goods on hire to persons carrying on a business which comprises or relates to the bailment of goods under a contract

Contract of guarantee

Contract of guarantee, in relation to any hire-purchase agreement, means a contract whereby a person (in this Act referred to as the surety) guarantees the performance

employee

employee or em·ploye n : a person usually below the executive level who is hired by another to perform a service esp. for wages or salary and is under the other's control see

Master and servant

business or purpose. See LABOURERS. Servants are of several descriptions:- 1st Servants in husbandry. These are very generally hired by the year, as from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, and this is an entire hiring for a year; and,

Distress

conditionally, that is, only if there be other sufficient distress on the premises. Also, on agricultural holdings; (13) Hired machinery and breeding stock absolutely; and (14) Agisted stock, conditionally. A distress cannot be made in the night,

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