Recompense - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: recompenseRecompensive
Of the nature of recompense serving to recompense...
Recompensation
Recompense...
Recompensement
Recompense requital...
Recompenser
One who recompenses...
Compensation
Compensation, according to dictionary it means, 'compensating or being compensated; thing given as recompense;'. In legal sense it may constitute actual loss or expected loss and may extend to physical mental or even emotional suffering, insult or injury or loss, Ghaziabad Development Authority v. Balbir Singh, (2004) 5 SCC 65 (75): AIR 2004 SC 2141.--Making things equivalent, satisfying or making amends, a reward for the apprehension of criminals; also that equivalent in money which is paid to the owners and occupiers of lands taken or injuriously affected for public purposes and under Act of Parliament, e.g., the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), but where the land is acquired compulsorily by a Government Department or any local or Public Authority the compensation is regulated by the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57) and Rules of 1919, and see Housing Act, 1936, ss. 40 and 42 and Schedules, ...
Dolg-bote
Dolg-bote [fr. dolg, Sax., wound, and bote, recompense], a recompense for a scar or wound, Cowel....
Excambium
Excambium, an exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business; also an equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ecclesi', 1 Reves, 101 and 103....
Salary
Salary, a recompense or consideration generally periodically made to a person for his service in another person's business; also wages, stipend, or annual allowance. See RECEIPT.An agreed compensation for services esp. pro-fessional or some professional services usu. paid at regular intervals on yearly basis, as distinguished from an hourly basis, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1337.The ancients derive the word from sal, salt (Plin. H.N. xxxi. 42)--the most necessary thing to support human life being thus mentioned as a representative of all others.The word 'salary' as used in clause (h) of s. 60 is meant to be confined to the emoluments of labourers and domestic servants. It makes a distinction between salary and the wages of labourers and domestic servants, Raghunandan Sahai v. Jaigobind Sahay, AIR 1942 Pat 194.The word 'salary' as used in proviso (1) to s. 60, Civil Procedure Code must be construed as meaning the total monthly emoluments to which a public servant is entitled, ...
Wages
Wages, if the remuneration is to be paid daily or weekly, it can be called wages. But when it is monthly remuneration payable on the last day of the month or after that date, and when the remuneration considering the general standards of payments is fairly high, then it has to be understood as salary, K.V.V. Sharma (in re), (1952) 2 Mad LJ 917.Includes any bonus or other additional remunera-tion etc., and any sum 'payable to such person by reason of the termination of his employment, A.R. Sarin v. B.C. Patil, AIR 1951 Bom 423.Means remuneration payable to an employee under an award or settlement, Purshottam v. Potdar, AIR 1966 SC 856.Means remuneration which an employer is liable to pay, if the term of the contract of employment are fulfilled. In other words, they are payments made by an employer for services rendered, G.M. Joshi v. First Civil Judge, AIR 1958 Bom 262.Wages, ought to include gratuity as well, Tirjugi Sitaram v. Badlu Prasad Bheru Prasad, AIR 1962 MP 361.The compensatio...
Compensate
To make equal return to to remunerate to recompense to give an equivalent to to requite suitably as to compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses...
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