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A person who is weak and infirm one who is disabled for active service especially one in chronic ill health

Gavelwerk

Gavelwerk, the personal labour of customary tenants. Customary service either by tenants own hands or with and of tenants costs or

Service

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Acceptance of service

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Consumer

of such person, whether such purchase of goods is for resale or for any commercial purpose or for personal use; (ii) hires or avails of any services for a consideration which has been paid or promised or … or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or public services. In Oxford Dictionary a consumer is defined as, 'a purchaser of goods or services'. In Black's Law Dictionary

hire

available for use or service in return for payment vb hired hir·ing vt 1 : to engage the personal services of or the temporary use of for a fixed sum 2 : to grant the personal services

Tenure

and gavelkind. (1) Petit serjeanty [parva serjeantia, Lat.] greatly resembles grand serjeanty, for as the latter is a personal service, the former is a rent or render, both tending to some purpose concerning the king's person. the service

Workmen's Compensation Act

to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] … s. 3 (1) defines 'workman' as 'any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, electrical work or otherwise, and whether the

Advertisement

repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5. As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, … (English) Advertising Stations (Rating) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 27). See STOLEN GOODS; REWARD; LIBEL; SUBSTITUTED SERVICE; SKY SIGN; and as to contract by acceptance of advertised offer, see Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Co., 1893

Common employment

master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment with the person whose negligence causes the injury, … 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 and his

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