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Home Dictionary Name: skilledMere skill
Mere skill, the expression 'mere skill' would mean substantial degree or preponderance of skill, K.R. Lakshmanan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1162): (1996) 2 SCC 226. [Madras City Police Act (3 of 1988), s. 49A]...
Skilled
Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application familiarly acquainted with expert skillful often followed by in as a person skilled in drawing or geometry...
Labour and skill
Labour and skill, the dictionary meaning of 'skill', inter alia, is: 'the familiar knowledge of any science, art, or handicraft, as shown by dexterity in execution or performance; technical ability' and the meaning of 'labour' inter alia, is: 'physical or mental exertion, particularly for some useful or desired end, Chandrakant Manilal Shah v. CIT, AIR 1992 SC 66 (75): (1992) 1 SCC 76....
Skill less
Wanting skill...
Skilled witnesses
Skilled witnesses. See EXPERTS....
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798.A profession ordinarily is an occupation requiring intellectual skill, often coupled with manual skill. Thus a teacher uses purely intellectual skill while a painter uses both. In any event, they are not engaged in an occupation in which employers and employees co-operates in the production or sale of commodities or arrangement for their production or sale or distribution and their services cannot be described as material services, Safdarjung Hospital v. Kuldip Singh Sethi, AIR 1970 SC 1407 (1413): (1970) 1 SCC 735; see also Sodan Singh v. NDNC, (1989) 4 SCC 155.Calling, vocation, known employment; divinity, physic, and law are called the learned professions.Includes business, Pioneer Motors v. Municipal Council Ngarcoil, AIR 1967 SC 684: 1961 (3) SCR 609.Profession,...
Workman
Workman, does not include an apprentice/trainee appointed under the Apprentices Act, 1961, Dhampur Sugar Mills v. Bhola Singh, (2005) 2 SCC 470. [Uttar Pradesh Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (28 of 1947), s. 2(z)]Here includes an employee employed as supervisor. There are only two circumstances in which such a person ceases to be a workman. Such a person is not a workman if he draws wages in excess of Rs. 500 per month or if he performs managerial functions by reason of a power vested in him or by the nature of duties attached to his office, All India Reserve Bank Employees' Association v. Reserve Bank of India, AIR 1966 SC 305: (1966) 1 SCR 25.The term 'workman' as used in s. 33C(2) includes all persons whose claim, requiring computation under this sub-s., is in respect of an existing right arising from his relationship as an industrial workman with his employer, National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. v. Pritam Singh Gill, AIR 1972 SC 1579: (1972) 2 SCC 1: (1973) 1 SCR 40.Car...
Negligence
Negligence, acting carelessly, a question of law or fact or of mixed fact and law, depending entirely upon the nature of a duty, which the person charged with negligence has failed to comply with or perform in the particular circumstance of each case. A very convenient classification has been formulated corresponding to the degree of negligence entailing liability measured by the degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1) ordinary, which is the want of ordinary diligence; (2) slight, the want of great diligence; and (3) gross, the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow Corporation v. Taylor, (1922) 1 AC 44. There is also a peculiar duty to take precaution in the case of dangerous Articles, see Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 AC 640. This case should be distinguished from the principle in Fletche...
numeracy
skill with numbers and mathematics the skill with numbers analogous to literacy the skill of reading...
Employee
Employee, includes not only persons employed directly by the employer but also persons employed through a contractor. Moreover, they include not only persons employed in the factory but also persons employed in connection with the work of the factory, P.M. Patel and Sons v. Union of India, (1986) 1 SCC 32: AIR 1987 SC 447: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 55.A person who works in the service of another person (the employer) under an express or implied contract of hire under which the employer has the right to control the details of work performance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 543.Means a person appointed to or borne on thecadre of staff of the Corporation, other thanperson on deputation. [Employees' State Insurance Corporation (General Provident Fund) Rules, 1995, s. 2(1)(e)]Means any person appointed by the University and includes teachers and other staff of the University, Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(k).In relation to the University, means a person other than a teacher or an office...
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