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Employee
1 SCC 32: AIR 1987 SC 447: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 55. A person who works in the service of another person (the employer) under an express or implied contract of hire under which the employer has … Employee, includes not only persons employed directly by the employer but also persons employed through a contractor. Moreover, they include not only persons
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Churchwardens
from the ordinary. It is incident also to their office to enforce proper and orderly behaviour during divine service; and Canon 19 directs that they 'shall not suffer any idle persons to abide either in the churchyard … representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for certain purpose, Withnell v. Gartham, (1795) 6 TR 388 (396), and in
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Fee
levied essentially for services rendered and as such there is an element of quid pro quo between the person who pays the fee and the public authority which imposes it, Collector of Customs v. K. Ganga Setty, … Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional
agent
involves the use of judgment and discretion and who is considered under the law as capable of accepting service of process and answering questions under cross-examination on behalf of the business entity ostensible agent : an agent … or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the
Office of profit
Yeshwant Singh, AIR 1970 Raj 134 (141). [Constitution of India, Art. 102(1)(a)] It need not be in the service of Government. Generally it is understood that an office means a position to which certain duties are attached. … Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium
Workman
vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature. [Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 (30 of 1979), s. 2 (1) (j)] It means any person who has entered into, or … s. 2(z)] Here includes an employee employed as supervisor. There are only two circumstances in which such a person ceases to be a workman. Such a person is not a workman if he draws wages in excess
Officer
is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49 TLR 300. It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the Air Force, and includes-- (a) an officer of … Officer. See ARMY; NAVY. A contract between the Crown and any of its military or naval officers for services rendered or to be rendered is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49
Lien
parties, e.g., where the person claiming the lien was obliged by law to enter into the contract for service, e.g., common carriers, innkeepers, and a shipmaster's lien for freight. The Civil Law derived its own lines, whether … one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is
Jury
same for each sex. Certain persons, as aliens, felons, lunatics, blind and deaf persons, are disqualified. Exemption from service may be claimed by peers, M.P.'s, clergy-men, ministers and priests, judges, magistrates, barristers and solicitors in actual practice, … Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue. Trial by jury may be
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