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special mission exception : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows recovery under workers' compensation to an employee who was injured while going to or coming from work on an errand that was part of the employee's regular duties or that was at the request of the employer or otherwise within the scope of the employment ...
Missioner
A missionary an envoy one who conducts a mission See Mission n 6...
Endowed schools
Endowed schools. Schools wholly or partly maintained out of an endowment. The (English) Endowed Schools Acts are 23 Vict. c. 11; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 32; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 56; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 29; and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 66; since which statutes their temporary provisions have been continued by (English) Annual Expiring Laws Continuance Acts. The principal Act is that of 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 56), which provided for the reorganization of endowed schools generally (ex-cepting those subject to the (English) Public Schools Act, 1868, as to which see PUBLIC SCHOOLS) through the medium of 'schemes' to be framed by the 'Endowed Schools Commissioners,' whose powers were transferred by the (English) Act of 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 87), to the Charity Com-missioners, and are now vested in the Board of Education. As to the dismissal of masters, see the (English) Endowed Schools (Masters) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 39), and Wright v. Zetland (Marquess), (1908) 1 KB 63. As to inspection o...
Entertainment tax
Entertainment tax, a tax levied on payments for ad-mission to entertainments, first imposed by s. 1(1) of the (English) Finance (New Duties) Act, 1916. 'Entertainment' is defined by s. 1(6). See also Finance (No. 2) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 49), s. 5, Sched. II., and A.-G. v. Arts Theatre of London, Ltd., (1933) 1 KB 439 (part of subscriptions chargeable, apportioned); A.-G. v. Southport Corpn., (1934) 1 KB 226 (admission of non-bathers to swimming pool)....
Envoy
Envoy, a diplomatic agent sent by one State to another.A high ranking diplomate sent to a foreign country to executive a special mission or to serve as a permanent diplomate representative, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th End., p. 555....
Giving notice in writing
Giving notice in writing, Chapter XVII of the Act, containing ss. 138 to 142, was inserted in the Act as per Banking Public Financial Institution and Negotiable Instruments Laws (Amendment) Act, 1968. When the legislature contemplated that notice in writing should be given to the drawer of the cheque, the legislature must be presumed to have been aware of the modern devices and equipment already in vogue and also in store for future. If the Court were to interpret the words 'giving notice in writing' in the s. as restricted to the customary mode of sending notice through postal service or even by personal delivery, the interpretative process would fail to cope up with the change of time. If the notice envisaged in clause (b) of the proviso to s. 138 was transmitted by Fax it would be compliance with the legal requirement, SIL Import v. Exim Aides Silk Exporters, (1991) 4 SCC 567: AIR 1999 SC 1609 (1612, 1613). [Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881, s. 138, proviso (b)]Giving Notice in writi...
Glorification in any manner
Glorification in any manner, the expression 'the glorification in any manner,' carries a wider con-notation than the expression 'the glorification of Sati' as employed in s. 5. In case of prosecution under s. 6(2) r/w s. 6(3), what would be punishable is such defiance or contravention of the order of the Collector and District Magistrate, as has the effect of the glorification in any manner of the com-mission of Sati. In distinction therewith, it is the actual doing of an act for the glorification of Sati which is made punishable under s. 5, State of Rajasthan v. Hat Singh, AIR 2003 SC 791 (795): (2003) 2 SCC 152. [Rajasthan Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 ss. 5 and 6(1) r/w s. 6(3)]...
Inter-Parliamentary relations
Inter-Parliamentary relations, is established among the different Parliament in the world through exchange of goodwill missions, delegations etc. with a view to promoting international understanding, peace and co-operation. The inter-parliamentary union and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association are the two international forums through which this task is sought to be achieved, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdhar, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 1100....
Judicial-council
Judicial-council, a regularly assembled group of judges whose mission is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts or which they sit; esp., a semiannual assembly of a federal circuit's judges called by the circuit's chief judge, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851....
Mauje
Mauje, the word Mauje is used in respect of villages in which there are cultivators owning cultivable lands (AIR 1915 Mad 727), Roman Catholic Mission v. State of Madras, AIR 1966 SC 1457 (1461): (1966) 3 SCR 283....
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