Administrative Business

Administrative business, the business of managing conducted in private by persons having complete discretion, as distinguished from judicial business, which is conducted in Court under specific rules as to evidence, etc. In the Chancery Division the term is used an meaning that portion of the business of the Court which consists of executing the trusts of deeds and wills and deciding the numerous questions which arise in connection therewith, as distinguished from the 'contentious' business of the Court, which means hostile litigation between parties. Formerly also certain business transacted at Quarter Sessions now transferred to County Councils by s. 3 of the Local Government Act, 1888.