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Manor

over these also, he had jurisdiction. In additional he might retain land, his demesne land, in his own occupation. An estate large enough to have these various incidents, free tenants, villain tenants, demesne land and a local

Married women's property

marriage, including any wages, earnings, money and property gained or acquired by her in any employment, trade, or occupation in which she was engaged, or which she carried on separately from her husband, or by the exercise

Mesne profits, action of

profits are the rents and profits which a trespasser has, or might have, received or made during his occupation of the premises, and which therefore he must pay over to the true owner as compensation for the

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Mystery

Mystery [fr. mestier, Fr.], an art, trade, or occupation

Income-tax

pound of income, under five classifications, according as derived from (A) ownership of land or houses, etc., (B) occupation of land or houses, etc., (C) dividends from stocks or shares, (D) professional or trade earnings or profits,

Industry and Industrial dispute

any business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling of employers and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen; (k) 'industrial dispute' means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between

Entertainment

drama, or the like. Entertainment denotes that which serves for amusement, and 'amusement' is defined as a pleasureable occupation of the sense, or that which furnishes it, as dancing, sports, or music. Likewise, in Reader's Digest Family

In the way of his business as agent

agent' means that the property is entrusted to him in the ordinary course of his duty or habitual occupation or profession or trade.... The term agent in s. 409 is not restricted only to those persons who

Gentleman

It has no precise legal meaning, but is used to designate a man of independent means and no occupation who is not entitled to 'esquire.' To describe the giver (a clerk in the Audit Office) of a

Encroachment

infringement of another's rights or intrusion of another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 547. Means unauthorised occupation of Government land or public land by way of putting temporary, semi-permanent or permanent structure for residential use

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