Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fire
Meaning of Fire
The courts apply the popular meaning which is the effect of combustion.
Fire Alternative Definition
The common understanding of the word “fire” would never include heat, short of the degree of ignition, however produced. 30 111. App. 266. Thus neither artificial nor solar heat, 6 Taunt. 436; 2 Marsh. 130; nor lightning, nor an explosion of gunpowder or of firedanap, or of a steam-engine, nor the discharge of ordnance, nor a projectile from either a volcano or a gun, is “fire” within a fire policy, unless there be an actual setting on fire directly causing the injury insured against. 19 C. B. N. S. 133, 34 L. J. C. P. 301.
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See Also
Death System; Grief: Traumatic; Social Functions of Death
National Labor Relations Act ; New York City ; Progressive Movement ; Workers’ Compensation.
Industrial Revolution, Women in the Workplace, Working Conditions in Factories
Further Reading
New York State Factory Investigating Commission. Preliminary Report of the Factory Investigating Commission. Albany: The Argus Company, 1912.
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz. Deadly Dust. Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Stein, Leon. The Triangle Fire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
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Dubofsky, Melvyn. When Workers Organize. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968.
Foner, Philip S. Women and the American Labor Movement. New York: Free Press, 1979.
Park, David W. “Compensation or Confiscation,” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000.
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Legal English Vocabulary: Fire in Spanish
Online translation of the English legal term fire into Spanish: incendio (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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- International Environmental Law
- Environmental Law Violations
- Pollution
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Policy
- Disaster
Hierarchical Display of Fire
Environment > Deterioration of the environment > Degradation of the environment
Environment > Environmental policy > Environmental protection > Fire protection
Meaning of Fire
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Translation of Fire
- Spanish: Incendio
- French: Incendie
- German: Brand
- Italian: Incendio
- Portuguese: Incêndio
- Polish: Pożar
Thesaurus of Fire
Environment > Deterioration of the environment > Degradation of the environment > Fire
Environment > Environmental policy > Environmental protection > Fire protection > Fire
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