written particulars Quick reference
A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (3 ed.)
...written particulars are a written statement of the main elements of the contract of employment that is required under the Employment Rights Act 1996 . The statement must include the name and address of the employer, the job title, the date employment began, the rate of pay and hours of work, holiday and other benefits, the notice period, grievance and disciplinary rules, and details of any collective agreements which directly affect terms and conditions. The UK statutory right to a written statement of employment particulars gives effect to the European...
written particulars
Poetry Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...in momentary flashes of revelation. (The argument is that those moments, those ‘spots of time’, will never lose their healing power, no matter how dark the time grows.) Blake's, by contrast, is an art of inflection and high rhetorical declaratives. Hence he insists on ‘minute particulars’ in the passage from Milton : not merely a catalogue of named flowers, but the names of all orders of being (Og and Anak, Ololon and Beulah) and the precise articulation of the dialectic of their acts at the different scalar levels of their appearances. Everything is exactly...
Publishing Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...sorts of literature. More seemed like less: the universal wisdom of the great ancient texts was in danger of being buried under an avalanche of modern dross. The unity and intelligibility of learning was under threat. While some commentators revelled in an explosion of particulars, savouring the myriad details that made up the fabric of modern learning, others looked back to a golden age whose order and manageability contrasted with the present indiscriminate growth of information and lack of control over its distribution. Out of the publication...
Enlightenment Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...voyage of discovery. David Samwell was not a botanist but he was, like Pennant, a fine observer who travelled as a surgeon with Cook on his third expedition and kept a superb journal of the voyage. In his A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook to which are added some Particulars concerning his Life ( 1786 ) he wrote what many regard as the best contemporary account of Cook's death, portraying Cook as the very archetype of the enlightened explorer. It was another Rational Dissenter, Andrew Kippis ( 1725–95 ), who persuaded Samwell to publish his...
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endorsement
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James Schuyler
Statement of Terms of Employment
Black British Literature
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw (c.1705–1775) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
...Ukawsaw ( c. 1705–1775 ) Writer of the first account of an African being taken into slavery in English, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince Written by Himself ( 1772 ). After his escape from slavery he lived in Colchester and Kidderminster. See slavery...
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw (1705–1775) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
...Ukawsaw ( c. 1705–1775 ) Writer of the first account of an African being taken into slavery in English, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince Written by Himself ( 1772 ). After his escape from slavery he lived in Colchester and Kidderminster. See slavery...
booking form Quick reference
A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
...arrangement must complete, to provide the organizer with the full particulars of the travellers and their requirements. Signature by the traveller accepts the relevant conditions of booking and executes a legal contract between purchasers and the principal supplier of the services purchased. Frequently, travel bookings are effected electronically, and there is no need for a travel agent to send the booking form to the principal. But it is still important to have the customer’s written acceptance of the travel arrangements that have been...
Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)
...John Peale ( 1892–1944 ), West Virginia-born author, lived on Cape Cod, whose poems are collected in Green Fruit ( 1917 ); The Undertaker's Garland ( 1922 ), written with Edmund Wilson ; Now with His Love ( 1933 ); and Minute Particulars ( 1936 ). Many Thousands Gone ( 1931 ) is a book of stories, and Act of Darkness ( 1935 ) is a novel. Bishop is said to be the prototype of Tom D'Invilliers in This Side of Paradise . His Collected Essays and his Collected Poems were published in 1948 . His correspondence with Allen Tate was printed...
claim form ((in civil proceedings)) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (9 ed.)
...claim form (in civil proceedings) A formal written statement setting out details of the claimant, defendant, and the remedy being sought. The claim form may also contain details of the claim (the particulars of claim ); alternatively, these can be served separately. Since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999 , the usual method of initiating civil proceedings is by issuing a claim form under Part 7 of the Rules; all previous methods (e.g. writ of summons, originating summons) have now been rendered obsolete. See also Part 8 claim...
Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.)
...John Peale ( 1892–1944 ), West Virginia-born author who lived on Cape Cod, whose poems are collected in Green Fruit (1917); The Undertaker’s Garland (1922), written with Edmund Wilson; Now with His Love (1933); and Minute Particulars (1936). Many Thousands Gone (1931) is a book of stories, and Act of Darkness (1935) is a novel. Bishop is said to be the prototype of Tom D’Invilliers in This Side of Paradise . His Collected Essays and Collected Poems were published in 1948. His correspondence with Allen Tate was printed in...
information Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (9 ed.)
...information n. The written statement by which a prosecutor informs a magistrate of the offence for which a summons or warrant is required. A person who lays an information before a magistrate is an informant ( see laying an information ). An information must contain a statement that describes the offence in ordinary language, identify any legislation that creates it, and include such particulars of the conduct constituting the commission of the offence as to make clear what the prosecutor alleges against the defendant (Criminal Procedure Rules). The...
Cra'tylus Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...in the discussion by asking questions of each of them in turn, producing himself a long series of incredible etymologies. The conclusion is that it is the absolutes, absolute beauty, absolute good, and so on ( see Plato 5 and Platonism ) that we need to study, not the particulars and their names. See also etymology...
endorsement Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (9 ed.)
...endorsement n. 1. The procedure in which the particulars of a driving offence are noted on a person’s driving licence. When the court orders endorsement for an offence carrying obligatory or discretionary disqualification but the driver is not disqualified, the endorsement also contains particulars of the number of penalty points imposed for the purposes of totting up . When the court orders disqualification, only the particulars of the offence are noted. The courts can order endorsement upon a conviction for most traffic offences (the main exceptions...
