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Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi). (3) The hiring of care and services to be performed or bestowed on the thing delivered (locatio custodi'). (4) The hiring of the carriage of goods (locatio operis mercium vehendarum) from one place to another. The three last are but sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services.The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:-(I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act that shall deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to perfor...
Officer
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 TLR 300.It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the Air Force, and includes--(a) an officer of any Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force who is for the time being subject to this Act.(b) in relation to a person subject to this Act when serving under such conditions as may be prescribed, an officer of the regular Army or the Navy. [Air Force Act, 1950, s. 4(xxiii)]It means a president, vice-president, chairperson, vice chair-person, managing director, secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator appointed under s. 123 and includes any other person empowered under this Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, ...
Street offences
Street offences. For list of these, see Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police'), s. 28 (applied among ss. 21-29 to urban districts by s. 171 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Public Health')], and s. 54 of the Metropolitan Police Acts of 1839 and 1867 [Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police (Metropolis)']. Thirty kinds of offences are specified in the Act of 1847, and seventeen in the Act of 1839. The offences specified in each Act comprise riding or driving furiously, loitering by common prostitute for prostitution, sliding on ice or snow, disturbance by ringing doorbell, discharging firearms, making bonfires, or setting fire to fireworks, and allowing ferocious dogs to be at large. The Act of 1847 also includes keeping swine, and obstructing footways. The Act of 1839 also includes bill posting on buildings without consent of owner, 'blowing horns or any other noisy instrument for the purpose of calling persons together, or of anno...
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
Jury
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 traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of the judicial customs of the Saxons was that a man might be cleared of an accusation of certain crimes, if an appointed number of persons (juratores, or more properly compurgatores) came forward and swore to a veredictum, that they believed him innocent. It is remarkable that for accusations of any consequence among the Saxons on the continent, twelve juratores was the number required for an acquittal. Similar customs may be observed in the laws of Athens and Rome, where dikaotai and judices answer to jurors, an of the continental Angli and Frisiones, though the number of jurors varied.See, as to the introduction and growth of trial by jury in England, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury; and for comments on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, pu...
Consultation
Consultation, in Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition, 1960, Volume 9, page 3) to 'consult' is defined as 'to discuss something together, to deliberate'. Corpus Juris Secundum (Volume 16A, Edn. 1956, page 1242) also says that the word 'consult' is frequently defined as meaning 'to discuss something together, or to deliberate'. By giving an opportunity to consultation or deliberation the purpose thereof is to enable the Judges to make their respective points of view known to the others and discuss and examine the relative merits of their view, High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan v. P.P. Singh, (2003) 4 SCC 239: AIR 2003 SC 1029 (1038). [Rules of High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan (1952), R. 15]A writ in the nature of a procedendo, whereby a cause, having been removed by prohibition from the Ecclesiastical Court to the King's Court, is returned thither again; for if the judges of the King's Court, upon comparing the libel with the suggestion of the party, find the suggestion false...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
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