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volunteer 1 : one that voluntarily undertakes something ;esp : one who without request, obligation, or an interest pays the debt of another and is denied reimbursement from subrogation 2 : one who receives property without giving valuable consideration ...
Civil defence volunteer
Civil defence volunteer, in realtion to any injury, means a person certified, by an officer of an civil defence organisation authorised by the Central Government to grant such certificate, to have been a member of that organisation at the time when the injury was sustained [Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, (59 of 1962), s. 2(2)]...
Origine propria neminem posse voluntate sua exim manifestum est
Origine propria neminem posse voluntate sua exim manifestum est [Lat.], it is manifest that no one is able, of his own will, to get rid of his proper origin.--Cod. 10, 38, 4, (It is evident that no one is able, of his own pleasure, to do away with his proper origin.) For the application of this maxim, see Broom's Legal maxims...
Volunteer
Volunteer, a person who takes under a voluntary conveyance, or who, though the conveyance may have been for value, is not within the scope of the consideration, e.g., persons not issue of the marriage claiming under limitations in a marriage settlement.Also, a person who has voluntarily joined a corps raised either for home or foreign service. See TERRITORIAL ARMY....
Naval reserves
Naval reserves. Originally volunteer forces, the Naval Coast Volunteers (16 & 17 Vict. c. 73); now the Royal Naval Reserve; see 22 & 23 Vict. c. 40, and succeeding Acts, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, which was formed under 3 Edw. 7, c. 6....
Militia
Militia, the national soldiery, as distinguished from the regular forces or standing army, being the inhabitants, or, as they have been sometimes called, the trained bands of a town or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen and thirty, who are to be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born in wedlock and other persons (42 Geo. 3, c. 90, s. 43); but by Acts dating from 10 Geo. 4, c. 10, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia were from time to time suspended.Finally in 1865, by the (English) Militia (Ballot Suspension) Act, 1865--a temporary Act, continued annually from time to time by successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts--these statutes were suspended, subject t...
Reserve Forces
Reserve Forces. 1. Army.--The (English) Reserve Forces Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 48), repealing and consolidating the prior Acts on the subject, established an 'Army Reserve' and a 'Militia Reserve.' The 'Army Reserve' consists of time-expired regular soldiers who are on its strength by reason of the terms of their enlistment or by re-engagement. As to the present character of the Militia, see that title. The Reserve is further strengthened by the Territorial Army Reserve, consisting of a reserve division, and also by a body composed of owners of motor cars who are liable to military service in an emergency, and the Act has been applied to an Air Force Reserve and Auxiliary Air Force Reserve under 7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 51, and 14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 15, and S.R. & O. 1924 (Nos. 1212 and 1213) and 1934 (No. 592). By 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 37, the 'Territorial Force' which was provided for in the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 9), became the 'Territorial Army,' and the speci...
Mobilize
To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action as to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign...
Common employment
Common employment. The general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant of and engaged in common employment with the person whose negligence causes the injury, the master is not liable in an action at Common law. The principle upon which the exception rests is that 'a servant who engages for the performance of services for compensation does as an implied part of the contract take upon himself, as between himself and his master, the natural risks and perils incident to the performance of such services; the presumption of law being that the compensation was adjusted accordingly, or, in other words, that these risks are considered in the wages' [per Balckburn, J., Morgan v. Vale of Neath R. Co., (1864) 5 B&S 578]. For review of cases, see Bray, J., in Cribb v. Kynoch, Ltd., (1907) 2 KB 548. The doctrine applies in spite of difference in rank or grade between the two servants, e.g.,...
Constructive trust
Constructive trust, a trust which the Court elicits by a construction put upon certain acts of parties. It arises upon a vendor's lien or charge upon land sold for unpaid purchase money, and generally, when an estate is subject to a trust or equitable interest or lien, and a person purchases it for value, with either actual or constructive notice of it, the estate will still be subject to the trust or equitable interest in the hands of such a purchaser.The doctrine of constructive trusts also arises upon the renewal of a lease by a trustee, or person having a limited interest, in his own name, even in the absence of fraud and upon the refusal of the lessor to grant a new lease to the cestui que trust or expectant; for such renewed lease is held upon trust for the person beneficially entitled to the old lease or the expectant, in order to prevent persons in fiduciary situations from acting so as to take a benefit for themselves. This doctrine is extended to the renewal of leases by one ...
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