Lay Shaft - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: lay shaftLay shaft
A secondary shaft as in a sliding change gear for an automobile a cam shaft operated by a two to one gear in an internal combustion engine It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine as in some marine engines a shaft driven by a small auxiliary engine for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion...
Rock shaft
A shaft that oscillates on its journals instead of revolving usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion as in the valve gear of some steam engines called also rocker rocking shaft and way shaft...
Shafted
Furnished with a shaft or with shafts as a shafted arch...
Shafting
Shafts collectivelly a system of connected shafts for communicating motion...
Lay off
Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of coal or shortage of power or shortage of raw materials or accumulation of stocks or break-down of machinery or any other reason, Management of Kairbetta Estate v. Rajamanickam, AIR 1960 SC 893: (1960) 3 SCR 371.It means the failure, refusal or inability of employer on account of contingencies mentioned in clause (kkk) of the Industrial Disputes Act, s. 2 to give employment to a workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of his industrial establishment. It is merely a fact of temporary unemployment of the workman in the work of the industrial establishment. The principles governing the case of lay-off are very akin to those applicable to a suspension case. When lay-off is found justified workmen may not be awarded any wages or compensation, Workmen of M/s. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. of India (P) Ltd. v. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co., AIR 1976 SC 1775: (1976) 3 SCC 819: (1976) 3 S...
Lay impropriators
Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat. 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, the appropriations of the several parsonages which belonged to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or secular parsonages, they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR....
Lay Rector
Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104 LJ Ch 314, with the rights to contribution from other lay impropriators. As to any right to occupy a seat in the chancel of a church, see Stileman-Gibbard v. Wilkinson, (1897) 1 QB 749....
lay
lay laid lay·ing 1 : to impose as a duty, burden, or punishment [ a tax] 2 a : to put forward : assert [ a claim] b : to submit for examination and determination [laid a case before the commission] past of lie ...
Lay fee
Lay fee, lands held in fee of a lay lord, as distinguished from those lands which belong to the Church....
lay witness
lay witness see witness ...
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