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Cross's Acts (English)
Improvement Acts of 1875 and 1879, repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act,1890 (53& 54 Vict. c. 70). See HOUSING ACTS … Cross's Acts (English), the Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts of 1875 and 1879, repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing of the
Artisans
(31 & 32 Vict. c. 130), repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (since extended and amended), made provision for taking down or improving dwellings occupied by working men … Artisans, artificers. The (English) Artisans and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 130), repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Housing
Insurance
to the necessity for an 'insurable interest,' see the Life Assurance Act, 1774, mentioned above. There are three classes of life insurance companies. The first class consists of corporations or joint-stock companies, who under-take to pay fixed … cargo and freight. (3) Remuneration of service required for general preservation to be distinguished from the sue and labour clause (q.v.) in Marine Insurance policies, which does not cover general average contributions or salvage, see (English) Marine
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Cottier tenure
Cottier tenure, one where a labourer makes his contract for land without the intervenion of a capitalist farmer, and where the conditions of the … conditions of the contract, especially the amountof rent, are determined not by custom but by competition. Also a class of sub-tenants who rent a cottage and an acre or two of land from small farmers, Irish. 1
Business
and intent of the Act in which it occurs. The term 'business' means an affair requiring attention and labour as the chief concern; mercantile pursuits, that one does for livelihood, occupation, employment, Kesavan Nair v. C.K. Babu … commodity must depend upon the volume, frequency, continuity and regularity of transaction of purchase and sale in a class of goods and the transactions must ordinarily be entered into with a profit motive, Sole Trustee, Loka Shikshana
Hire
into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi). (3) The hiring of care and services to be performed or bestowed on the thing … a proper degree of care and diligence about the work. The hiring of care and attention. To this class belong a gisters of cattle, warehousemen, forwarding merchants, and wharfingers. They are bound to use ordinary diligence, and
Trade Boards
within the Act by Order of the Board of Trade or by special Order of the Minister of Labour. The Board of Trade can establish Trade Boards with respect to such trades, and the Boards when established … constitution of all Trade Boards, or specially to the constitution of any particular Trade Board or any particular class of Trade Boards. And the Board of Trade may make regulations with respect to the proceedings and meetings
Wages
of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934, as if he were of full age. Wages of any 'servant, labourer, or workman' cannot be attached to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. … 2 SCC 354: (1979) 2 SCR 788. The bonus in question did not fall under any category or class mentioned in the definition of 'wages' as contained in s. 2(22) of the Act. Bonus in the nature
Industrial and Provident Societies
accounts, nominations, and other matters. See also the Industrial Assurance Act, 1923, which provides safeguards for the poorer classes of assured persons. The (English) Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. … 40 Vict. c. 45), which by s. 6 provided for the registration of societies 'for carrying on any labour, trade, or handicraft, in-cluding the buying or selling of land, of which no member shall claim an interest
Consideration
as in the case of mutual promises; and 4th, continuing, i.e., executed in part only. The three last classes are sufficient to support a contract not void for other reasons, Story on Contracts, 71. (d) Considerations moving … the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor.
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