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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, ...
Salaried
Receiving a salary paid by a salary having a salary attached as a salaried officer a salaried office...
Salary or wages
Salary or wages, means all remuneration (other than remuneration in respect of over-time work) capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment and includes dearness allowance (that is to say, all cash payments, by whatever name called, paid to an employee on account of a rise in the cost of living), but does not include--(i) any other allowance which the employee is for the time being entitled to;(ii) the value of any house accommodation or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of foodgrains or other articles.(iii) any travelling concession;(iv) any bonus (including incentive, production and attendance bonus);(v) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the employee under any law for t...
Profits in lieu of salary
Profits in lieu of salary, in defining the expression 'profits in lieu of salary', the legislature excluded from the scope of that expression any payments received by the assessee from a provident fund, his own contributions to the fund or any interest on such contributions, CIT v. G. Hyatt, AIR 1971 SC 725 (726): (1971) 1 SCC 466. [Income Tax Act, s. 17(1)(iv)]...
Wages, salaries and other dues of the employees
Wages, salaries and other dues of the employees, expression 'wages, salaries and other dues of the employees' in s. 5(2) includes bonus, Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh v. Model Mills, AIR 1984 SC 1813: (1984) Supp SCC 443: (1985) 1 SCR 751....
salary
salary pl: -ries : fixed compensation paid regularly for services sal·a·ried adj ...
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...
Government
Government, 'the Government', shall include both the Central Government and any State Government. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(23)]That form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed; the state itself.The structure of principles and rules determining how a State or organisation is regulated; the sovereign proper in a nation or state; an organisation through which a body of people exercise political authority; the machinery by which foreign prover is exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.It means, in relation to any major port, the Central Government and, in relation to any other port, the State Government. [Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948), s. 2 (d)]The expression 'Government' in s. 21(12)(a), IPC, 1860 must either mean the Central Government or the Government of a State, R.S. Nayak v. A.R. Antulay, AIR 1984 SC 684: (1984) 2 SCC 183: (1984) 2 SCR 495.Includes Legislative, Executive and Judiciar...
Public servant
Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)]Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), s. 2]Public servant shall have the meaning assigned to it in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994), s. 2 ]The chairman of the managing committee of a muni-cipality is a 'public servant' within the meaning of the s. 2; Maharudrappa Danappa Kesarappanavar v. State of Mysore, AIR 1961 SC 785: (1962) 1 SCR 129.(ii) The Minister is a 'public servant'. In accordance with the instructions issued by the Government he was to preside over the meetings of the Advisory Committee. He was doing so as a Minister andin execution and discharge of his duty as such public servant, Dattatraya Narayan Patil v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1685: (1976) 1 SCC 11: (1975) Supp SCR 145.(iii) For the purposes of this Act, 'public servant' me...
Article III court
Article III court : a court created in accordance with Article III of the U.S. Constitution whose judges have positions for life and cannot have their salaries reduced compare legislative court NOTE: The purpose of the salary and position guarantees enjoyed by the judges of Article III courts is to ensure that their decisions are not influenced by fear of losing their positions or salaries. ...
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