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Entertainment

P. 353) 'entertainment' has been defined thus: An entertainment is a source or means of amusement; a diverting performance, especially a public performance, as a concert, drama, or the like. Entertainment denotes that which serves for amusement,

mandamus

jurisdiction to an inferior tribunal, a public official, an administrative agency, a corporation, or any person compelling the performance of an act usually only when there is a duty under the law to perform the act, the

Promise

Promise, an engagement for the performance or non-performance of some particular thing, which may be made either by deed, or without deed, when it

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Theatre

Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment

Bond

80, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, it is advisable to name them if it is contemplated that they may perform the condition, see K. & E., 13th Edn. P. 277. The benefit passes to the survivors in the

Gold

Merchandise Acts.' A promise to repay a loan or other obligation in terms of 'gold' depends for its performance on the law of the country governing the performance at the time of performance, see Feist v. Societe

Ulthural servants

Ulthural servants, the duties of Ulthural servants relate mainly to the performance of poojas, rituals and other services to the deity, the recitation of mantras, vedas, prabandas, thevarams and similar

Damages

injunction against a breach of agreement, or against the commission of a wrongful act, or for the specific performance of any agreement, the same Court might award damages to the party injured, either in addition to or

Common employment

at Common law. The principle upon which the exception rests is that 'a servant who engages for the performance of services for compensation does as an implied part of the contract take upon himself, as between himself

impossibility

-ties 1 : the quality or state of being impossible ;also : the affirmative defense that something (as performance) is impossible 2 : something impossible 3 : impossibility of performance in this entry fac·tu·al impossibility : impossibility

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