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Definition :

Official, according to the dictionary, means pertain-ing to an office, S.K. Zutshi v. Bimal Debnath, (2004) 8 SCC 31 (38); See also State of Orissa v. Ganesh Chandra Jew, (2004) 8 SCC 40. (Criminal PC, 1973, s. 197)

Official, formal; authorised.

In the Civil Law, he is a minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law, he is the person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction; there is one in every diocese, called officialis principalis, i.e., chancellor; the rest,

if there are more, are officiales foranei, i.e., commissaries. in our statute she is the person whom the archdeacon appoints as his substitute. Wood's Inst. 30, 505