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Mandate

Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission.Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them. The person employing is called in the Civil Law mandans or mandator, and the person employed mandatarius or mandatory. The distinction between a mandate and a deposit is that in the latter the principal object of the parties is the custody of the thing; and the service and labour are merely accessorial. In the former, the labour and service are the principal objects of the parties, and the thing is merely accessorial. Three things are necessary to create a mandate: (1) that there should exist something which should be the subject of the contract, or some act or business to be done; (2) that it should be done gratuitously; (3) that the parties should voluntarily intend to enter into the contract. A mandatary incurs three obligations: (1) to do the act which is the object of the mandate, and with which...

In the pay of

In the pay of, in Shorter Oxford English Dictionary the expression 'in the pay of' is defined thus: To give money, etc., in return for something or in discharge of an obligation. Of a thing or action. To yield an adequate return. To give money or other equivalent value for. Similarly 'Payer' is defined thus: One who pays a sum of money. In Webster's Third New International Dictionary the expression 'in the pay of' is indicated to mean: Compensate, remunerate, satisfy, reimburse, indemnify, recompense, repay, M. Karunanidhi v. Union of India, AIR 1979 SC 898 (912): (1979) 3 SCC 431: (1979) 3 SCR 254.The phrase 'in the pay of' in clause Twelfth (a) does not inhere a master-servant or command-obedience relationship between the Government as the payer and the public servant as the payee and may comprehend a situation that the person may be in the pay of the government without being in the employment of the government or without there being a master-servant relationship, R.S. Nayak v. A.R. ...

Implied contract

Implied contract. A contract which the law infers, from acts, circumstances, or relationships, as that an employer will pay the person employed what his labour was worth; or, as in Francis v. Cockrell, (1870) LR 5 QB 501, that a public platform provided for payment may be used with safety; or that a mesne landlord whose ground-rent has been paid by a sub-tenant to avoid distress will reimburse the sub-tenant. The implied contracts which the law infers are very numerous. See Chitty, Addison, or Leake on Contracts; LANDLORD AND TENANT....

indemnify

indemnify -fied -fy·ing [Latin indemnis unharmed, from in- not + damnum damage] 1 : to secure against hurt, loss, or damage 2 : to compensate or reimburse for incurred hurt, loss, or damage in·dem·ni·fi·er n ...

Loan, gratuitous

Loan, gratuitous, a class of bailment called commodatum in the Roman Law, and denominated by Sir William Jones a loan for use (pret a usage), to distinguish it from mutuum, a loan for consumption.The borrower has the right to use the thing during the time and for the purpose agreed upon by the parties. the loan is to be considered as strictly personal, unless from other circumstances a different intention may fairly be presumed. The borrower must take proper care of the thing borrowed, use it according to the lender's intention, and restore it at the proper time, and in a proper condition.The lender must suffer the borrower to use and enjoy the thing lent during the time of the loan, according to the original intention, without any molestation or impediment, under the peril of damages. He must reimburse the borrower the extraordinary expenses to which he has been put for the preservation of the thing lent. He is bound to give notice to the borrower of the defects of the thing lent; and...

volunteer

volunteer 1 : one that voluntarily undertakes something ;esp : one who without request, obligation, or an interest pays the debt of another and is denied reimbursement from subrogation 2 : one who receives property without giving valuable consideration ...

County rate

County rate, an imposition levied on the occupiers of lands, and applied to many miscellaneous purposes; among which are those of defraying the expenses connected with prisons, reimbursing to private parties the costs they have incurred in prosecuting public offenders, and defraying the expenses of the county police. See (English) County Rate Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 81), and (English) Rating Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90)....

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