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special hazard rule : an exception to the going and coming rule that allows an employee to recover from an employer for injuries sustained while going to or coming from work NOTE: The special hazard rule applies when the place at which the injury occurred was along the only available route or when the employee would not have been there if not for the employment and usually the risks associated with the location are distinctive or greater than the risk common to the public. ...
going and coming rule
going and coming rule : a rule that an employee cannot receive workers' compensation benefits for injuries suffered while coming to or going from work see also special hazard rule, special mission exception ...
Hazardous process
Hazardous process, means any process or activity in relation to an industry specified in the First Schedule where, unless special care is taken, raw materials used therein or the intermediate or finished products, bye-products, wastes or effluents thereof would--(i) cause material impairment to the health of the persons engaged in or connected therewith, or(ii) result in the pollution or the general environment: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the First Schedule by way of addition, omission or variation of any industry specified in the said Schedule. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (cb)]...
Special Rules
Special Rules, special Rules' means the rules in Part II to be framed by Governor under Article 309 and not the rules applicable before reorganization of the States in 1956, District Registrar v. M.B. Koyyakutty, AIR 1979 SC 1060: (1979) 2 SCC 150: (1979) 3 SCR 242....
Decree nisi
Decree nisi. By the (English) Judicature Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made absolute until after the expiration of six months from the pronouncing thereof, unless the Court by general or special order from time to time fixes a shorter time.(2) After the pronouncing of the decree nisi and before the decree is made absolute, any person may, in the prescribed manner, show cause why the decree should not be made absolute by reason of the decree having been obtained by collusion or by reason of material not having been brought before the Court, and in any such case the Court may make the decree absolute, reverse the decree nisi, require further inquiry or otherwise deal with the case as the Court thinks fit. Only in special circumstances will the period be shortened. See Osburne v. Osburne, (1926) 70 Sol Jo 388. See Browne on Divorce; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Matrimonial Causes.'...
Rules of Court
Rules of Court, orders regulating the practice of the Courts; or orders made between parties to an action or suit.(1) General rules regulating the practice of the Courts, both of Common Law and Equity, have from time to time been made by the Courts in pursuance of the powers of various Acts of Parliament. See as to the Common Law Courts, which promulgated consecutive Rules without any division into Orders, Day's Common Law Procedure Acts; and as to the Court of Chancery, which promulgated Orders subdivided into Rules, Morgan's Chancery Acts and Orders. The scheme of the Chancery Procedure Acts was that the Orders made thereunder should come into force as soon as made, subject to the power of Parliament to annul them afterwards (see, e.g., Chancery Procedure Act, 1858, s. 12), while that of the Common Law Procedure Acts, was that Rules made thereunder should not come into force until they had lain before Parliament for three months (see 13 & 14 Vict. c. 16, and Common Law Procedure Act,...
Specially appointed
Specially appointed, the expressional 'specially appointed' means appointment for specific purpose, AIR 1965 Pat 446 (447). [Bihar Panchayat Election Rules, 1959 r. 2(9)]The word 'specially' has reference to the special purpose of appointment and is not used to convey the sense of a special as against a general appointment. The word 'specially' thus connotes the appointment of an officer or officers to perform functions which ordinarily Collector would perform under the Act. It qualifies the word 'appointed' and means no more than that he is appointed specially to perform the functions entrusted by the Act to the Collector, Abdul Hussain Tayabali v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 432 (436). [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 3(c)]...
special appearance
special appearance : an appearance by a party in court for the sole purpose of challenging the court's assertion of personal jurisdiction over the party compare general appearance NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the rules of states that have adopted it, the use of a special appearance to challenge jurisdiction has been abolished, and jurisdiction may be challenged in the pleadings or in a pretrial motion. ...
Hazardous substance
Hazardous substance, means any substance or pre-paration which is defined as hazardous substance in the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and exceeding such quantity as specified by the Central Government under the Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991). [National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995 (27 of 1995), s. 2 (f)]It means any substance or preparation which is de-fined as hazardous substance under the Environ-ment (Protection) Act, 1986, and exceeding such quantity as may be specified, by notification, by the Central Government. [Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2 (d)]It means any substance or preparation which, by reason of its chemical or physico-chemical properties or handling, is liable to cause harm to human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro-organism, property or the environment. [Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), s. 2 (e)]...
Special Leave to Appeal
Special Leave to Appeal, in England, the judicial committee of the Privy Council possesses the power to grant special leave to appeal, a petition for special leave lies where the court below lacks the power to grant leave to appeal or possessing that power has declined to exercise that power, in criminal cases, leave is granted only when some substantial or gross injustice has been done; in civil cases, on a question of general interest or public importance, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. G, p. 305.Is exercisable outside the purview of the ordinary law relating to appeal and in cases where needs of justice demand interference by the highest court of the land; to be exercised only under exceptional circumstances, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. G, p. 305.The Supreme Court of India possesses the power to grant special leave to appeal from any judgment, decree, determination, sentence or order in any caus...
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