Search results for: “Labour relations Europe”
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Social partners in the European Union
This is jargon for the two sides of industry – i.e. employers and workers. At EU level they are represented by three main organisations: The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), representing workers; The Union of Industries of the European Community (UNICE), representing private […]
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Labour Department and Ministry
Labour Department and Ministry in Europe One of the outward signs of the intensified governmental interest in labour has been the establishment in 1913 of a Department of Labor in the United States, and in 1917 of a Ministry of Labour in Great Britain. United Kingdom The demand for the […]
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Privity
Definition of Privity The relationship in which a person stands to a transaction in which he is a party, or to some other party with whom he is connected.Privity of contract is the relation which exists between the immediate parties to a contract, as where A agrees with B to pay him 100. […]
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Power
Definition of Power -The ability conferred on a person by law to determine, by his own will directed to that end, the legal relations of himself or others (Salmond). A power is the converse of disability. It differs from a right in that there are no accompanying duties. Powers are public, i. […]
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Marriage
Definition of Marriage Marriage is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, subject to the rules as to consanguinity or affinity, and capacity to perform the duties of matrimony prevailing in the place of domicile of the parties, and subject to the […]
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Law
Definition of Law A law is an obligatory rule of conduct. The term is applied to observed uniformities of action, as in the law of gravitation. But its proper use is in the sphere of jurisprudence.There are different views as to the nature of law. Hobbes defined law as The commands of him or […]
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Jus
Definition of Jus In its widest sense includes moral as well as legal obligations. It means (1) law as opposed to lex (a statute); (2) a right; (3) relationship; (4) the Court of a magistrate. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Jus in […]
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Jus
Definition of Jus In its widest sense includes moral as well as legal obligations. It means (1) law as opposed to lex (a statute); (2) a right; (3) relationship; (4) the Court of a magistrate. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Jus in […]
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Harding V. Glynn
Definition of Harding V. Glynn ((1739), 1 Atk. 469). A testator by his will gave personal property to his wife, but did desire her, at or before her death, to give the same unto and among such of his own relations as she should think most deserving and approve of. II eld, that the wife…