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of verifying that the employer has accurately determined the class of covered employees.

That which is essential, suitable, adapted, and correct Congress is authorized, by art. 1, s. 8, of the constitution of the United States, “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution of the United States, in any department or ofiicer thereof.”

That which Is fit, suitable, adapted, and correct. See Knox v. Lee, 12 Wall. 457, 20 L. Ed. 287; Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky.) 20; Westfield v. Warren, 8 N. J. Law, 251. Peculiar; naturally or essentially belonging to a person or thing; not common; appropriate; one's own.

— Proper feuds. In feudal law, the original and genuine feuds held by purely military service.

— Proper parties. A proper party, as distinguished from a necessary party, is one who has an interest in the subject-matter of the litigation, which may be conveniently settled therein; one without whom a substantial decree may be made, but not a decree which shall completely settle ali the questions which may be involved in the controversy and conclude the rights of ali the persons who have any interest in the subject of the litigation. See Kelley v. Boettcher, 85 Fed. 55, 29 C. C. A. 14; Tatum v. Roberts, 59 Minn. 52, 60 N. W. 848.

Peculiar; particular; one's own.

1. Own; one's own: as, proper — costs, county, debt, goods and chattels, person. 2. Appropriate, q. v.; well adapted; suitable; fit; sufficient: as, proper — action, county, court, form of decree or judgment, legislation. See Necessary. The proper instructions under which the issue in a contested will case is made up and tried are such instructions as the law of the case and the testimony before the jury make pertinent.^

1. That which conforms to the standard by which the thing mentioned ought to be judged; fit; suitable; sufficient; well adapted. The constitution, in declaring that congress shall have power to make all laws necessary and proper for executing the express powers conferred, uses the word in this sense. 2. Individually appropriate; peculiarly one's own. The expressions, a proper name, one's proper goods and chattels, are examples of this sense. Proper books of account. It is an objection, under the bankrupt law, to an application for a discharge, that the applicant, being a trader, is shown not to have kept proper books of account. But the fact that a trader's books of account are not entirely accurate does not defeat his right to a discharge in bankruptcy. Keeping proper books of account, within the requirement of the bankrupt law, may be said to be keeping an intelligent record of the merchant's or trader's business a Sairs, with that reasonable degree of accuracy and care whifch is to be expected from a man in that business. Intentional omissions may be conclusive that proper books have not been kept; impair the value of the books as a record of the business. See Re Winsor, 16 Bankr. Reg. 152.