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Motor transport worker

(ii) any such person to whom the provisions of any law for the time being in force regulating the conditions of … a driver, conductor, cleaner, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk, cash clerk, depot clerk, time-keeper, watchman or attendant, but except

Misprision

to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision. Misprisions are divided in the … imprisonment. See 4 Bl. Com. 119 et seq. Misprisions of clerks are mistakes made by clerks, etc., in writing or keeping

Associate

was an officer in each of the Courts of Common Law, appointed by the chief judge of the Court, and holding … Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879. This latter provision has been repealed clerks of the Associates Department of the Crown Office Department of

Clergy

infra: also Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy'; Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law; Dale's Clergyman's Legal Handbook; and Whitehead's Church Law. … [fr. clerge, Fr.; clerus, Lat.], the assembly or body of clerks or ecclesiastics set apart from the rest of the people

Trial

the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It … of the pleadings is stated to the jury by the clerk of the Court, except in a case of misdemeanour, where

Insurance

against fire and upon lives, and the whole of the law is now codified in the (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906 … or accident; but losses by burglary or by default of clerks, and, in fact, almost all kinds of risk, chance and

Embezzlement

of personal property with which one has been entrusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 540. Embezzlement is a felony punishable … Embezzlement, the appropriation to his own use by a clerk or servant of money, valuable securities or chattels received by

Indicavit

of the advowson, when the suit belongs to the Common Law Courts, by West. 2, c. 5, 13 Edw. 1, st. … prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual Court by another clerk for

Royal Assent

an Act, and instantly has the force and effect of law as from the beginning of that day, unless some time … and the king's or queen's answer is declared by the Clerk of the Parliaments in Norman-French. To a bill of supply,

Tort

duty leading to damage'. Same meaning attaches to it in law. In general, torts consist of some act done without just … v. Ralston, (1930) 2 KB 238. Consult Addison on Torts; Clerk & Lindsell on Torts. Tort dictionarily means 'breach of duty

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