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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

Hackney carriage or cab

Hackney carriage or cab, means any such vehicle for the conveyance of passengers which plies for hire, whether drawn or propelled by animal or mechanical power, and which is not a stage carriage or a

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

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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,

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

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

Contract carriage, Stage carriage

Contract carriage, Stage carriage, the contract carriages are for those who want to hire the vehicle collectively or individually for a group or a party for their transport to a destination/destinations. The

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

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

Hirer

Hirer, means the person who obtains or has obtained possession of goods from an owner under a hire-purchase agreement,

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