Pick Off - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pick offPick off
to put out a baserunner who is off base by tagging himher especially by a quick throw from the pitcher or catcher...
Pickoff
a play in which a base runner is picked off See pick off...
Floccillation
A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person as if to pick off flocks of wool carphology an alarming symptom in acute diseases...
Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse
Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse, a thief who steals by putting his hand privately into the pocket or purse of another: an offence punishable with great severity in early times and still a felony as larceny from the person within s. 14 of the Larceny Act, 1916. See Reg. v. Ring, (1892) 61 LJMC 116, where it was held an offence to attempt to pick an empty pocket....
hand picked
carefully selected as a hand picked jury the companys president groomed his hand picked successor...
Passing off
Passing off, in action for passing off pray of actual deception is not necessary two marks bear an ovrall similarity as would be likely to mislead a person usually dealing with one to accept the other if offered to him, it is enough, National Match Works v. S.T. Karuppanna Nadar, AIR 1979 Mad 157.An infringement action is available where there is violation of specific property right acquired under and recognised by the statute. In a passing-off action, however, the plaintiff's right is independent of such a statutory right to a trade mark and is against the conduct of the defendant which leads to or is intended or calculated to lead to deception. Passing-off is said to be a species of unfair trade competition or of actionable unfair trading by which one person, through deception, attempts to obtain an economic benefit of the reputation which another has established for himself in a particular trade or business. The action is regarded as an action for deceit. The tort of passing-off inv...
Picking
The act of digging or breaking up as with a pick...
Pick of Land
Pick of Land, a narrow slip of land running into a corner....
Pick-lock
Pick-lock, an instrument by which locks are opened without a key....
Lay off
Lay off, s. 2(kkk) of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 defines a lay off. Lay-off may be due to shortage of coal or shortage of power or shortage of raw materials or accumulation of stocks or break-down of machinery or any other reason, Management of Kairbetta Estate v. Rajamanickam, AIR 1960 SC 893: (1960) 3 SCR 371.It means the failure, refusal or inability of employer on account of contingencies mentioned in clause (kkk) of the Industrial Disputes Act, s. 2 to give employment to a workman whose name is borne on the muster rolls of his industrial establishment. It is merely a fact of temporary unemployment of the workman in the work of the industrial establishment. The principles governing the case of lay-off are very akin to those applicable to a suspension case. When lay-off is found justified workmen may not be awarded any wages or compensation, Workmen of M/s. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. of India (P) Ltd. v. Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co., AIR 1976 SC 1775: (1976) 3 SCC 819: (1976) 3 S...
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