Administrative Proceeding - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: administrative proceedingAdministrative proceeding
Administrative proceeding, a hearing, inquiry, investigation, or trial before an administrative agency. Usually adjudicating in nature but sometimes quasi-legislative, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 46....
Proceeding
Proceeding, includes administrative proceeding, Nathibai v. Maheshwari Samaj Ramola Trust, AIR 1997 MP 19.It includes execution proceedings also, Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 22.Proceeding, is a term of wide amplitude. It means a prescribed course of action for enforcing or protecting a legal right and further embracing the requisite steps to be taken whether procedural or substantive. Also means forms in which relief is sought before courts of law or before other bodies or authorities determining rights and liabilities and in which actions are brought and defended and the manner of conducting them and the mode of deciding them. All these happenings or events before a labour court or industrial tribunal or any other authority on whom jurisdiction is conferred by law to dispose of contentious matters are understated by the term 'proceeding', Workmen of Bali Singh Bhagwan Singh v. Management, 1968 ILR 2 Punj 371: 1969 Lab IC 581: AIR 1969 Punj 147; K.J. Lingan and A.V. Mahayalam v. Jt. ...
proceeding
proceeding 1 : a particular step or series of steps in the enforcement, adjudication, or administration of rights, remedies, laws, or regulations: as a : an action, hearing, trial, or application before the court collateral proceeding : a proceeding that concerns an order, motion, petition, or writ deriving from or sought in relation to another proceeding (as a trial) [a collateral proceeding on a motion to have the judge in a pending trial disqualified] ;esp : one in which a collateral attack on a judgment is made [sought to avoid the effect of the judgment in a collateral proceeding after denial of a direct appeal] core proceeding : a proceeding (as one instituted by a debtor against a creditor) that is integral to the administration of a bankruptcy estate and so falls under the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court non-core proceeding : a proceeding involving a matter that relates to a bankruptcy case but that does not arise under bankruptcy laws, that could be adjudicated i...
Natural justice
Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules of natural justice which are not embodied rules. What particular rule of natural justice should apply to a given case must depend to a great extent on the facts and circumstances of that case, the frame-work of the law under which the enquiry is held and the constitution of the Tribunal pointed for the purpose, A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 150: (1969) 2 SCC 262.Historically, 'natural justice' has been used in a way 'which implies the existence of moral principles of self-evidence and unarguable truth'. In course of time, judges nurtured in the traditions of British jurisprudence, often involved it in conjunction with a reference to 'equity and good conscience'. Legal experts of earlier generations did not draw any distinctio...
party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa
Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa, no man shall be a judge in his own cause. This principle applies not only to judicial proceedings but also to quasi-judicial and administrative proceedings, M/s. J. Mohapatra & Co. v. State of Orissa; see also Canara Bank v. Debasis Das, AIR 2003 SC 2041 (2049): AIR 1984 SC 1572 (1575).Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa. 12 Co. 113, (No one should be judge in his own cause Canal Co., (1852) 3 HLC 759, in which the judgment of Lord Chancellor Cottenham was set aside by the House of Lords on the ground of his having been a shareholder in the defendant company....
opposition proceeding
opposition proceeding A proceeding in which the plaintiff seeks to prevent the issuance of a registration of a mark. An opposition is similar to a proceeding in a federal court, but is held before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a USPTO administrative tribunal. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
Administrative adjudication
Administrative adjudication, is the process by an administrative agency to issue regulations through an adversary proceeding, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 45....
Cabinet
Cabinet, is an inner body within the Council of Ministers which is responsible for formulating the policy of the Government. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to Lok Sabha. It is headed by the Prime Minister who determines which of the Ministers should be members of the cabinet. Only cabinet ministers have a right to attend its meetings. Minister of State attend its meetings only on a special invitation. The total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister, in the council of ministers should not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the House of the People, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., p. 133 [Arts. 75 and 75A, Constitution of India]In many commonwealth countries, cabinet is modelled on British pattern. In Canada, composition of cabinet is influenced by regional considerations. Australia follows the British practice of including only selected ministers in the cabinet, Practice and Procedure of P...
fact
fact [Latin factum deed, real happening, something done, from neuter of factus, past participle of facere to do, make] 1 : something that has actual existence : a matter of objective reality 2 : any of the circumstances of a case that exist or are alleged to exist in reality : a thing whose actual occurrence or existence is to be determined by the evidence presented at trial see also finding of fact at finding, judicial notice question of fact at question, trier of fact compare law, opinion adjudicative fact : a fact particularly related to the parties to an esp. administrative proceeding compare legislative fact in this entry collateral fact : a fact that has no direct relation to or immediate bearing on the case or matter in question compare material fact in this entry constitutional fact : a fact that relates to the determination of a constitutional issue (as violation of a constitutional right) used esp. of administrative findings of fact evidentiary fact : a fact that i...
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