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Disciplinary procedure
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Disciplinary procedureAn employer should draw up a disciplinary procedure preferably with union or employee involvement. It is normally a condition of the employment contract that it is subject to the disciplinary procedure in force from time to time. Such a procedure will assist the employer in arguing that he has acted fairly as well as setting down good practice for both employer and employee in disciplinary matters.
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Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Union
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Subject
1) Contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. 2) Persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Well
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
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Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary hearing
In the US penitentiary jargon, a hearing held in the jail to determine if a Rule Violation Report is substantiated and, if so, what discipline the inmate will receive.
Disciplinary Hearing Officer
In the US penitentiary jargon, the person who is responsible for conducting misconduct hearings and decides if discipline is deserved.
Disciplinary Isolation
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are housed separately and are denied the use all personal items except bedding, clothing, legal papers, personal correspondence, hygiene items, and religious reading material.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than ten days per hearing.
Disciplinary lockdown
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are restricted to their living area and lose all revocable privileges, retaining the rights to professional visits, showers, and legal phone calls.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than 72 hours per hearing.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
Discovert
Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman unmarried, or widow; one not within the bonds of matrimony.
Discovery
1) International law. The act of finding an unknown country. 2) Practice, pleading. The act of disclosing or revealing by a defendant, in his answer to a bill filed against him in a court of equity. 3) Rights. The patent laws of the United States use this word as synonymous with invention or improvement of July 4, 1836.
Discrepancy
A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance.
Discretion
Criminal law. The ability to know and distinguish between good and evil; between what is lawful and what is unlawful.
Discretion of the court
An area of choice available to a judge to make decisions after reviewing reasonable evidence.
Discretionary trust
A trust in which the settlor has given the trustee full discretion to decide which (and when) members of a group of beneficiaries is to receive either the income or the capital of the trust.
Discretionary trusts
Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment; as when a fund is given to trustees to be distributed in certain charities to be selected by the trustees.
Discrimination
Under a range of different kinds of legislation, the law prohibits discrimination against various sectors of the workforce. Conduct is generally discriminatory where it may be considered to disadvantage a person of a particular sex or race, union members or non-members, ex-offenders, or from late 1996, the disabled. It may occur at recruitment, whilst employed or through termination. It is particularly important because in sex or race discrimination cases, the qualifying period of continuous employment for bringing a claim for dismissal does not apply when based upon discrimination and in such cases the limit on the amount an industrial tribunal may award is not applicable.
Discussion
Civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureties.
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Disaffirmance
The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract.
Disbarment
The official seizing of an attorney's license to practice law.
Disbursement
Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and some times it signifies to advance money.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary procedure
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Union
By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Condition
Persons. The situation in civil society which creates certain relations between the individual, to whom it is applied, and one or more others, from which mutual rights and obligations arise.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Subject
1) Contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. 2) Persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistiction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Well
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary hearing
In the US penitentiary jargon, a hearing held in the jail to determine if a Rule Violation Report is substantiated and, if so, what discipline the inmate will receive.
Disciplinary Hearing Officer
In the US penitentiary jargon, the person who is responsible for conducting misconduct hearings and decides if discipline is deserved.
Disciplinary Isolation
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are housed separately and are denied the use all personal items except bedding, clothing, legal papers, personal correspondence, hygiene items, and religious reading material.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than ten days per hearing.
Disciplinary lockdown
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are restricted to their living area and lose all revocable privileges, retaining the rights to professional visits, showers, and legal phone calls.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than 72 hours per hearing.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
Discovert
Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman unmarried, or widow; one not within the bonds of matrimony.
Discovery
1) International law. The act of finding an unknown country. 2) Practice, pleading. The act of disclosing or revealing by a defendant, in his answer to a bill filed against him in a court of equity. 3) Rights. The patent laws of the United States use this word as synonymous with invention or improvement of July 4, 1836.
Discrepancy
A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance.
Discretion
Criminal law. The ability to know and distinguish between good and evil; between what is lawful and what is unlawful.
Discretion of the court
An area of choice available to a judge to make decisions after reviewing reasonable evidence.
Discretionary trust
A trust in which the settlor has given the trustee full discretion to decide which (and when) members of a group of beneficiaries is to receive either the income or the capital of the trust.
Discretionary trusts
Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment; as when a fund is given to trustees to be distributed in certain charities to be selected by the trustees.
Discrimination
Under a range of different kinds of legislation, the law prohibits discrimination against various sectors of the workforce. Conduct is generally discriminatory where it may be considered to disadvantage a person of a particular sex or race, union members or non-members, ex-offenders, or from late 1996, the disabled. It may occur at recruitment, whilst employed or through termination. It is particularly important because in sex or race discrimination cases, the qualifying period of continuous employment for bringing a claim for dismissal does not apply when based upon discrimination and in such cases the limit on the amount an industrial tribunal may award is not applicable.
Discussion
Civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureties.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Disaffirmance
The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract.
Disbarment
The official seizing of an attorney's license to practice law.
Disbursement
Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and some times it signifies to advance money.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary procedure
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
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