WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT

add. ·- a statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, ·esp. the british act of 6 edw. vii. c.58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer.