Wages
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The ag^reed compensation for services rendered in a menial or subordinate capacity. A compensation given to a hired person for his or her services.
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The payments made to servants and workmen are so called, Brown, Any money or salary paid or payable to any clerk or servant, laborer or workman.
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The compensation agreed upon by a master to be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do business for him.
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The compensation paid or to be paid for services by the day, week, &c.; such as those of laborers, commissioners, &c.
Cowdin V. Huff, 10 Ind. 83.
The expression " wages of laborers and employes," in an act exempting them from execution, does not include the salary of the president of a railroad company. South, &c.
Ala. R. R. Co. v. Falkner, 49 Ala. 115.
The salary of a public officer is not in any proper sense wages; and is not affected by a statute declaring wages subject to or exempt from garnishment. Mc Lellan «.
Young, 54 Ga. 399.
Wages of her personal labor. This expression, in Iowa Code, § 2211, refers to cases where the wife is employed to some extent in performing labor or services for others than her husband; or where she is carrying on some business on her own behalf. She is entitled to the wages for her personal labor or services performed for others; but her husband is entitled to her labor and assistance in the discharge of those duties and obligations which arise out of the married relation.
Mewhirter v. Hatten, 42 Iowa, 288.