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Pell mell

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Pells, Clerk of the

Pells, Clerk of the, an officer in the Exchequer, who entered every seller's bill on the parchment-rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements. Abolished....


Mell

To mix to meddle...


Sea mell

The sea mew...


compel

compel com·pelled com·pel·ling : to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law [cannot the defendant to testify] [the result…is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause "R. H. Bork"] ...


Pell

To pelt to knock about...


Labourer

Labourer, according to the dictionary meaning, this indicates a person who is engaged in the performance of unskilled labour, generally speaking. A person who is called upon to do some work which requires some amount of skill, however little that may be, is not to be regarded as a labourer, G. Venkatachalam Pillai v. Labour and Co. (Pte.) Ltd., AIR 1961 Mad 358 (359). [Limitation Act, 1908, Art. 7]Means servants in husbandry or manufactures, not living intra m'nia. Various repealed Acts of (English) Parliament (see, e.g., 5 Eliz. c. 4) have vested in the justices of the peace the power of com-pelling persons not having any visible livelihood to go out to service in husbandry, or in certain specific trades, for the promotion of honest industry. A 'labourer' is a man who digs and does other work of that kind with his hands (per Brett, M.R., Morgan v. London General Omnibus Co., (1884) 53 LJQB 352); but a farmer is not a labourer within the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7) [R...


Presumption of fact and presumption in of law

Presumption of fact and presumption in of law, presumptions are of three types: (1) Permissive presumptions or presumptions of fact. (2) Com-pelling presumptions or resumption of law (rebuttable). (3) Irrebuttable presumption of law or 'conclusive proof'. Classes (i), (ii) and (iii) are indicated in clauses (1), (2) and (3) respectively, of s. 4, Evidence Act. 'Presumptions of fact' are infer-ences of certain fact patterns drawn from the experience and observation of the common course of nature, the constitution of the human mind, the springs of human action, the usages and habits of society and ordinary course of human affairsS. 114 is a general s. dealing with presumptions of this kind. It is not obligatory for the Court to draw a presumption of fact. In respect of such pre-sumptions, the Act allows the judge a discretion in each case to decide whether the fact which under s. 114 may be presumed has been proved by virtue of that presumption. In case of a 'Presumption of Law' no discr...


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