Skip to content

Overseer - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Parish Apprentices

Parish Apprentices, persons who were bound out by the overseers of parishes, or by the guardians of the poor. The children of poor persons could be apprenticed out

Churchwardens

under sequestration for the debts of the incumbent, Prideaux's Churchwardens' Guide; Steer's Parish Law. Churchwardens were ex officio overseers of the poor under the Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 2), but overseers were abolished by

Stevedore

unloading of vessels, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1426. Stevedore, is a workman employed either as an overseer or a labourer in the loading and unloading of the cargoes of merchant vessels, Provident Fund Inspector, Ernakulum

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Railway

and owned, hired or worked by a railway administration. [Railways Act, 1989, s. 2 (31)] Offices of the overseer and other persons engaged in construction work on the railway come within the ambit of the definition of

Parish

immediately before the 1st April, 1927, a separate poor rate was or could be made, or a separate overseer was or could be appointed.

Hoppo

Hoppo, a collector; an overseer of commerce, Chinese.

Ghirdawar, Girdwar

Ghirdawar, Girdwar, an overseer or police, under whom the goyendas or informers act, Indian

Controller

Controller [fr. Controle, Fr., the copy of a roll of accounts], an overseer or officer appointed to examine and verify the accounts of other officers, also Controller under Patents Act, 1911.

Grieve

A manager of a farm or overseer of any work a reeve a manorial bailiff

Caporal

One who directs work an overseer

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial