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ultrahazardous
ultrahazardous : being of such extreme danger or risk of harm that strict liability will be imposed
workers' compensation
and in the course of employment that is paid to the worker or dependents by an employer whose strict liability for such compensation is established by statute NOTE: Where established by statute, workers' compensation is generally the exclusive
Surety and guarantor
Surety and guarantor, are both answerable for debt, default, or miscarriage of another but liability of guarantor is, strictly speaking, secondary, and collateral, while that of surety is original, primary and direct. In case of suretyship there
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Profit bonus
Profit bonus, a profit bonus is strictly not wages, at least not for the purpose of computing liability to income-tax; it is not an expense
Breach of trust
of investment of or dealing with the trust property, or having otherwise erred in the discharge of his strict duty; in other cases he may have been guilty of negligence or carelessness involving at least some degree … of Chancery. In later times, however, the Court was not quite so astute in fixing honest trustees with liability for breach of trust as formerly; see Speight v. Gaunt, (1883) 9 App Cas 1. More recently, the
Judicial decision
a judicial decision is merely a decision which is in fact exercised by the courts in accordance with strict legal procedure, whereas a quasi-judicial decision is given by an administrator or an administrative court entitled to follow … authoritative decision, (c) after hearing evidence and opposition and upon consideration of facts and circumstances, and (d) imposing liability or affecting the rights of the parties, there is a duty to act judicially, Parduman Singh v. State
Legal right
Legal right, 'legal right' is a difficult concept, legal right in its strict sense is one which is an assertable claim, enforceable before Courts and administrative agencies; in its wider sense, … an advantage or benefit conferred upon a person by a rule of law. Immunity in short is no liability. It is an immunity from the legal power of some other person. The correlative of immunity is disability.
Payment of Money into Court
'or he may, except in actions for libel or slander, pay money into Court with a defence denying liability,' which he could not do before 1883. The fact that money has been paid into court may not … banker to the Court for the purpose of proceedings commenced in that Court. Payment into Court is not strictly a defence; it is rather an attempt at a compromise. No such plea was known to the Common
Registration of title of land
notice under the general law, and subsequent registered proprietors not being purchasers for value are under the same liability in regard to minor interests which affected the registered proprietor at the time of transfer to them [s. … incumbrances are protected (1) by means of caution or restriction against the registered proprietor (ss. 54 and 58). Strictly speaking, cautions and restrictions are not incumbrances on the land, but they serve to give the persons entitled
Passengers
(English) Road Traffic Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43), and AIR NAVIGATION. As to the liability of a passenger to pay his fare without demand under a bye-law, fraud not being alleged, see London … several cases; but as the authority arises out of the necessity of the case, it must be exercised strictly within the limits of that necessity, Boyce v. Bayliffe, (1807) 1 Camp 58. A passenger is not, however,
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