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Policed

Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order enforced by organized administration … Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order enforced by organized administration

During the last two decades, the concept of natural justice has made great strides in the realm of administrative law. Before the epoch-making decision of the House of Lords in Ridge v. Baldwin,1964 AC 40 (196): (1963) 2

Debt

See PLEADINGS. The order of the payment of debts and expenses out of legal assets in an ordinary administration action in the Chancery Division of the High Court is as follows:- 1. Funeral expenses, which in the … contract alleged to have taken place between the parties, or on some matter of fact from which the law would imply a contract between them. This was debt in the debet, which was the principal and only

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Trust

of Property Act, 1925, and (English) Settled Land Act, 1925). A personal representative selling for the purpose of administration can give a valid receipt [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 27 (2), and (English) Administration of

Quasi judicial function

fairly towards the objections and not to take fresh evidence without disclosing it to them, Wade & Forsyth's Administrative Law; see also Indian National Congress (I) v. Institute of Social Welfare, (2002) 5 SCC 685.

Real representative

a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The (English) Land Transfer act, 1897, (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), reproduced and extended by the (English) … Estates Act, 1925 (which applies to deaths after 1925, s. 54, ibid.), with the object of assimilating the law of succession to real and personal property. Sect. 1 of the (English) A. E. act, 1925, provides:- '(1)

Fraud

law. Nor can the ingredients which established fraud in commercial transaction be of assistance in determining fraud in Administrative Law. It has been aptly observed by Lord Bridge in Khawaji [Khawaja v. Secretary of state for Home Deptt., … the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations. The colour of fraud in public law or administrative law, as it is developing, is assuming different shades. It aries from a deception committed by disclosure of incorrect

Civil Law

suspended in the Comitium, and all parties were so well satisfied with the result of the first year's administration of the Decemviri, that it was resolved to continue the same sort of government for another year'new members … Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly

agency

of government created by legislation to administer the law in a particular area of public concern called also administrative agency see also enabling statute, exhaustion of remedies Administrative Procedure Act in the Important Laws section NOTE: When

Quasi judicial

is ............ not easily definable. In the United States, the phrase often covers judicial decisions taken by an administrative agency -- the test is the nature of the tribunal rather than what it is doing. In England … belongs to the administrative category and is used to cover situations where the administrator is bound by the law to observe certain forms and possibly hold a public hearing but where he is a free agent in

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