Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and Also in the Justiciary and House of LordsT. & T. Clark, 1915 |
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accident accordingly action amount appellants apply arbitrator Argued assessment authorised averred bequest Burgh Police Burgh Police Scotland charge circumstances claim clause Clydebank Commissioners Company compensation complainers condition contract contractors conveyance Court of Session Cowdenbeath decision deductions defenders detonators district Division Dunedin effect employer employment enemy entitled erected evidence expressed fact favour Glasgow ground held holding Inland Revenue interlocutor judgment land Leith liability liferent Limited Lord Advocate Lord Cullen Lord Dundas Lord Ordinary Lord President Lordships Magistrates meaning ment North British Railway nystagmus opinion payment person pilot premises present proved provisions Public Health Scotland purchase purpose pursuer question Railway referred regard respect respondent Scotland second parties Sheriff-substitute Skerrington Small Landholders Scotland statute statutory tenant tenements testator testatrix thereof tion total value trust-estate Trustees Vict words workman
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Page 34 - The employer to whom notice of the death, disablement, or suspension is to be given shall be the employer who last employed the workman during the said twelve months in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due...
Page 375 - 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with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted.
Page 34 - For the purposes of this Act a person shall be deemed to have traded with...
Page 376 - In narrow channels every steam vessel shall, .when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.
Page 39 - ... disease; and the disease is due to the nature of any employment in which the workman was employed at any time within the twelve months previous to the date of the disablement or suspension, whether under one or more employers, he or his dependants shall be entitled to compensation...
Page 37 - ... if the disease is of such a nature as to be contracted by a gradual process, any other employers, who during the said twelve months employed the workmen in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due...
Page 341 - ... accumulation shall be directed otherwise than as aforesaid, such direction shall be null and void, and the rents, issues, profits, and produce of such property so directed to be accumulated, shall, so long as the same shall be directed to be accumulated contrary to the provisions of this Act, go to and be received by such person or persons as would have been entitled thereto if such accumulation had not been directed.
Page 224 - Act, and the disease contracted is the disease in the first column of that Schedule set opposite the description of the process, the disease, except where the certifying surgeon certifies that in his opinion the disease was not due to the nature of the employment, shall be deemed to have been due to the nature of that employment, unless the employer proves the contrary.
Page 497 - Act, and shall (subject as hereinafter mentioned) be of the same effect as if they were contained in this Act, and shall be judicially noticed.
Page 72 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount which he is earning or is able to earn in some suitable employment or business after the accident...