Lay-Off definition:
A temporary discharge of an employee.
In Air-Care Ltd., Justice Dickson of Canada's Supreme Court adopted this definition:
"Lay-off, a period during which a workman is temporarily discharged." ...
Lay may refer to:
Lay person, any person who is not a member of the clergy is of the laity
a lyric song or lyric poetry
Germanic *laikaz ...
Lay A Foundation
(v) Lay a foundation is the testifying of the authenticity and expertise of the witness , documents or evidence produced before the court to assess the reliability of the witness , documents or evidences. Eg.
Lay-up: temporary cessation of trading of a ship by a shipowner during a period when there is a surplus of ships in relation to the level of available cargoes.
Lay advocate - a paralegal who specializes in representing persons in administrative hearings
Leading question - One which suggests to a witness the answer desired. Prohibited on direct examination.
lay a foundation
v. in evidence, to provide to the judge the qualification of a witness (particularly an expert witness) or a document or other piece of evidence which assures the court of the talent and experience of a witness or the ...
Lay members
The ET will usually have 2 lay ( or wing members) for a full hearing. One is usually from the employer's side of industry ( such as the CBI) and the other from the worker's side ( such as a union official).
Liability ...
lay personOne not trained in the law.
leading questionOne which virtually instructs a witness how to answer or puts into his mouth word to be echoed back; one which suggest to the witness the answer desired.
Lay Witness
Any witness not testifying as an expert. Lay witnesses ordinarily cannot render an opinion as to the ultimate issue in the case and can only testify as to what they heard and saw.
lay worker A person who works in a religious organization but is not a member of the formal clergy.
lea See Local Educational Agency.
Lay
Definition - Transitive Verb
1 : to impose as a duty, burden, or punishment <~ a tax>
2 a : to put forward
: See also assert<~ a claim>
b : to submit for examination and determination <laid a case before the commission> ...
Lay corporations are divided into civil and eleemosynary. Civil corporations are created for an infinite variety of temporal purposes, such as affording facilities for obtaining loans of money; the making of canals, turnpike roads and the like.
Lay witness
A witness not considered an expert in a particular field.
Legal aid ...
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Lay Advocate
A representative who is not an attorney. Some lay advocates, such as certain paralegals, have training and experience in representing parties in administrative hearings .
Chrysostom perhaps goes furthest in inveighing against this " snare of Satan ": " Do as you choose; I lay it down as a law that there be no swearing at all. If any bid you swear, tell him, Christ has spoken, and I do not swear " (Homil. ix.
All which lay in the same confusion and disorder as the Roman civil law, till about the year 1151, when one Gratian, an Italian monk, animated by the discovery of Justinian's Pandects, reduced the ecclesiastical constitutions also into some method, ...
Jury A panel of lay-persons assembled to hear evidence in a trial and to determine the truth or falsity of such evidence.
This power lay only in Parliament. In 1857, by act of Parliament, judicial courts succeeded to the jurisdiction over nullity and partial dissolution and were given the added power to grant total dissolution of the marriage.
The term "alcohol" is often used by lay persons to refer to alcoholic beverages made with ethyl alcohol or ethanol. The usual type of alcohol found in mixed drinks, wine and beer is ethanol.
Latin de-ponere, to put, place; to lay down or aside. Sometimes is synonymous with "affadavit" or "oath;" but, in its more technical and appropriate sense, is limited to the written testimony of a witness given in the course of a judicial proceeding, ...
The term "patent" originates from the Latin word patere which means "to lay open" (i.e. make available for public inspection) and the term letters patent, ...
Present: 1. Being at a certain place at a certain time. 2. To lay a motion or case before a court for consideration and action.
In England and Wales the judiciary comprises -- in order of increasing seniority -- lay and stipendiary magistrates, circuit judges and Recorders, High Court (`puisne') judges, and the appelate (appeal) judges ...
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