A Handy-book of the Labour Laws: Being a Popular Guide to the Employers and Workmen Act, 1875: Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875 ... Etc., Etc

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Macmillan and Company, 1895 - 338 pages

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Page 50 - ... (4) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be...
Page 60 - trade union " means any combination, whether temporary or permanent, for regulating the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business...
Page 123 - An Act to repeal an Act of the present " Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more " ' effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and "'made in various Departments of the State, and to " ' substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more " ' entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths "'and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the " ' Abolition of unnecessary Oaths.
Page 177 - The notice may be served by delivering the same to or at the residence or place of business of the person on whom it is to be served.
Page 42 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; or, ' 5. Follows such other person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any street or road...
Page 47 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 43 - ... shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Page 51 - Summary Jurisdiction Acts" means as follows : As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled "An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 175 - In any case where the workman knew of the defect or negligence which caused his injury, and failed within a reasonable time to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer or some person superior to himself in the service of the employer, unless he was aware that the employer or such superior already knew of the said defect or negligence.
Page 173 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform and did conform where such injury resulted from his having so conformed...

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