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personal service 1 : a service based on the intellectual or manual efforts of an individual (as for salary or wages) rather than a salable product of his or her skills 2 : physical delivery of process to a person to whom it is directed or to someone authorized to receive it on that person's behalf ...
Personal service injury
Personal service injury, has the meaning assigned to it in the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962. [Civil Defence Act, 1968 (27 of 1968), s. 2 (e)]...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
Acceptance of service
Acceptance of service of writ of summons by solicitor in lieu of personal service on defendant. See R. S. C., Ord. IX., r. 1. Where with the authority of the defendant his solicitor accepts service of a writ and gives a written undertaking to 'enter an appearance in due course,' that undertaking is unconditional and must be performed forthwith, and at the instance of the plaintiff it can be enforced by attachment of the solicitor under R. S. C., Ord. XII., r. 18 [In re Kerly, (1901) 1 Ch 467]. It is necessary for the solicitor to have his client's authority [Re Gray, (1891) 65 LT 743]; and unless an undertaking to appear is given, personal service cannot be dispensed with [The Anna, (1891) 64 LT 332]; personal service also is requisite in divorce proceedings, De Niceville v. De Niceville, (1877) 37 LJ Mat 43....
substituted service
substituted service : the service of a writ, process, or summons otherwise than by personal service (as by mail or publication or by leaving it at a defendant's place of business or residence or with an agent) called also constructive service ...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Condition of service
Condition of service, includes transfer of the employees, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief v. Subhash Chandra Yadav, (1988) 2 SCC 351: AIR 1988 SC 876. [Cantonment Board Service Rules (1937) R. 5C]The expression 'conditions of service' is an expression of wide import. As pointed by the Supreme Court in Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, (1955) 2 SCR 1331, the dismissal of an official is a matter which falls within 'conditions of service' of public servants. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in North West Frontier Province v. Suraj Narain Anand, (1948) LR 75 IA 343, took the view that a right of dismissal is a condition of service within the meaning of the words under s. 243 of the Government of India Act, 1935. Lord Thankerton speaking for the Board observed therein: 'apart from consideration whether the context indicates a special significance to the expression 'conditions of service' their Lordships are unable in the absence of any su...
Solicitor
Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ or process, or commence, carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in any Court whatever (see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932, s. 45). 'Solicitor of the Supreme Court' was the title given by the (English) Judicature Act, 1843, s. 87, to all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, and continued by (English) Solicitors Act 1932, s. 81. Prior to that Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the Common Law Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as an attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor also.Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners...
Judicial service
Judicial service, the expression 'judicial service' can be defined as inclusive of a wide variety of offices connected with the administration of justice in one way or the other, Syed T.A. Naoshbandi v. State of J&K, (2003) 9 SCC 592 (604).The expression 'Judicial service' is defined in Article 236 (b) and it means service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district Judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi, AIR 1966 SC 447 (450): (1966) 1 SCR 771.The expression 'Judicial Service' means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of District Judge and other Civil Judicial posts inferior to the District Judge and the ex-pression 'District Judge' includes among others an Additional District Judge and an Additional Sessions Judge, State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616 (1618): (1969) 3 SCC 505, See also Chandra Mohan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ...
service
service 1 : the act of delivering to or informing someone of a writ, summons, or other notice as prescribed by law [after of process] see also notice by publication at notice, substituted service, summons NOTE: Although service of process is primarily the means for a court to exert personal jurisdiction over a person, some form of service (as by publication of notice in a newspaper) is also usually required for exercise of in rem or quasi in rem jurisdiction. 2 a : useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity usually used in pl. [payment for s rendered] b : the maintenance or repair of tangible property [machinery for the and improvement of the residence] vt ser·viced ser·vic·ing : to provide services for: as a : to meet interest and sinking fund payments on (debt) [didn't have the cash flow to a large loan] b : to collect payments and maintain a payment schedule for (a loan) esp. after sale of the loan to a secondary mortgage market (as the Federal ...
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