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verbal act : an utterance that is direct evidence (as of an offense) and not hearsay [the offer of drugs for sale was admissible as a verbal act] ...
Proces verbal
Proces verbal [fr.], an authentic minute of an official act, or statement of acts....
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 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908) and Employers Liability Act, 1880, sub tit. MASTER AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for a...
procès verbal
procs verbal pl: procès ver·bals [-bÄ lz] [French, literally, verbal trial] in the civil law of Louisiana : an official written record of a proceeding (as a judicial sale of property) ...
Verbal haberdashery
Verbal haberdashery, a haberdasher is a dealer in small articles of dress etc [Ox]. The phrase cited, read in context, implies the use of words in such a manner as to restrict the intended purpose of a law. 'The law cannot be stultified by verbal haberdashery because the court will lift the mask and discover the true face.' [LIC of India v. D.J. Bahadur, AIR 1980 SC 2181, para 52]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Verbal note
Verbal note, a memorandum or note, in diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affair has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which, perhaps, is not required; and, on the other hand, to guard against the supposition that it is forgotten, or that there is an intention of not prosecuting it any further....
Procegraves verbal
An authentic minute of an official act or statement of facts...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
Consolidation Acts (English)
Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in the first instance, by the conditions caused by the outbreak of the Great War. The continuance of the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 78), was the first of such Acts: it restricted the right to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these ...
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