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year-and-a-day rule
year-and-a-day rule : a common-law rule that relieves a defendant of responsibility for homicide if the victim lives for more than one year and one day after being injured NOTE: The year-and-a-day rule, which dates from at least 1278, is frequently criticized as anachronistic since modern medicine makes pinpointing cause of death easier than it was formerly. However, the rule still exists or is reflected in the law of some jurisdictions. ...
Year-books, or Books of years and terms
Year-books, or Books of years and terms, reports, in a regular series, from the time of King Edward II. to Henry VIII., which were taken by the protho-notaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the Crown, and published annually; hence their denomination. The Year-books are valuable as documents of progressive law, although they have not been classified or digested in the manner of later reports. See REPORTS....
Years
Years, must be interpreted in the sense of agricultural seasons, Sobhatiya v. Seth Bhugwandas, (1952) NLJ 168.The word 'years' in the plural has been retained in the Act by mistake or oversight and it should be read in the singular, Bhairendra Narayan Bhup v. State of Assam, 1956 SCR 303: AIR 1956 SC 503 (512). [Assam State Acquisition of Zamindari's Act (18 of 1951), s. 11]...
Years, Estate for
Years, Estate for. See TERMS FOR YEARS....
yellow-dog contract
yellow-dog contract see contract ...
yield
yield : to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest [an account that s 6 percent] vi 1 : to give place or precedence (as to one having a superior right or claim) 2 : to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly [ to the senator from Maine] n 1 : agricultural production esp. per acre of crop 2 : the return on a financial investment usually expressed as a percentage of cost [the bond was 8 percent] ...
Yield strength
Yield strength, means the stress corresponding to a permanent strain of 0.2 per cent of the original Inage length in a tensile lest. For practical purpose it may be taken as a stress at which elongation first occurs in the lest piece without the increase ofload in a tensile lest. [Gas Cylinder Rules, 2004, R. 2(xlii)]...
Yieldimg and paying
Yieldimg and paying, the first words of the reddendum clause in a lease. See REDDENDUM; Platt on Covenants....
Young person
Young person. In the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12), this expression (s. 107) ' means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years and is under seventeen years.'A young person within the (English) Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 42), is a person who is under the age of eighteen years (s. 5). See CHILD-REN.Means a person under the age of twenty years. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (c)]Means a person who has completed fourteen years of age but has not completed eighteen years of age. [Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employ-ment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2(q)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2(d)]Means a person who is either a child or an adolescent. [Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951), s. 3(J)]...