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compensation

compensation 1 : the act of compensating 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : the ending of mutual obligations between two people for money or quantities of fungible things usually by operation of law but...

Compensation and interest

Compensation and interest, The Legislature being well aware of the distinction between compensation and interest thereon employed clear language which leaves no room for doubt that under sub-s. (2) interest was payable in its well-known and...

Compensation for loss of employment

Compensation for loss of employment, expression 'compensation for loss of employment' used in explanation 2 to s. 7 refers to any payment made, whether under a legal liability or voluntarily, to compensate or act as a...

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Workmen's Compensation Act

Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is...

workers' compensation

workers' compensation 1 : compensation for injury to an employee arising out of and in the course of employment that is paid to the worker or dependents by an employer whose strict liability for such compensation...

Re-compensation

Re-compensation. Where a party sues for a debt, and the defendant pleads compensation, i.e., set-off, the plaintiff may allege a compensation on his part, and this is called a re-compensation, Scots Law Term.

Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890

Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890 (English) (53 & 54 Vict. c. 57), repealed by and see now the Allotments Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 57), ss. 1 and 4 (2). At Common Law a...

Retrenchment compensation

Retrenchment compensation, 'retrenchment com-pensation' is not a retirement benefit at all. As the expression 'retrenchment compensation' indicate it is compensation paid to a workman on his retrenchment and it is intended to give him some relief...

unemployment compensation

unemployment compensation : compensation paid at regular intervals (as by a state agency) to an unemployed worker and esp. one who has been laid off called also unemployment benefit NOTE: Unemployment compensation is usually a fixed...

Full compensation

Full compensation. See s. 16 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Railways,' and s. 17 of the Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c....

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