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Approved institution

Approved institution, means a hospital, health centre or other such institution recognised by a University as an institution in which a person may undergo the training, if any, required by his course of study before the award of any medical qualification to him. [Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), s. 2 (a)]...


Approved charitable institution

Approved charitable institution, means an institution specified in, or, as the case may be, an institution established for charitable purposes and notified by the Central Government under clause (23C) of section 10 or an institution referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 80G. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80E(3)(a)]....


Institutions

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...


Approved schools

Approved schools. These schools are schools intended for the education and training of persons to be sent there in pursuance of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (see s. 79(1) and approved by the Secretary of State. They are regulated by ss. 79-83 of that Act. Local authorities may under certain circumstances undertake the purchase, establishment, building, alteration, enlargement, rebuilding or management of an approved school (s. 80). The Secretary of State may classify approved schools as he thinks best calculated to secure that a person sent to an approved school is sent to the school appropriate to his case. With certain exceptions the managers of an approved school are bound to accept any person sent there in pursuance of the Act (s. 81). The expression 'approved school' was first used in the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, which was declared to apply in relation to a school which at the commencement of this Act is a certified reformatory school or a certified indust...


Financial Institution

Financial Institution, means a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) applies (including any bank or banking institution referred to in s. 51 of that Act); or any other financial institution which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80E(3)(b)]Means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956;(ii) such other institution as the Central Government may, having regard to its business activity and the area of its operation in India by notification, specify. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (h)]Financial institution means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);(ii) any institution specified by the Central Govern-ment under sub-clause (ii) of clause (h) of s. 2 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Fina...


Super-institution

Super-institution, the institution of one in an office to which another has been previously instituted; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a benefice upon one title, and B. is admitted and instituted on the title or presentment of another, 2 Cro. 463.A church being full by institution, if a second institution is granted to the same church this is a super-institution; concerning which two things have been resolved:-(1) That the super-institution, as such, is properly triable in the spiritual Court; (2) that it is not triable there, in case induction has been given upon the first institution.The advantage of a super-institution is, that is enables the party who obtains it to try his title by ejectment, without putting him to his quare impedit; but many inconveniences thence following (e.g., the uncertainty to whom tithes shall be paid, and the like), this method has been discouraged, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 189....


Approval

Approval, in the context of an administrative act, the word 'approval' does not mean anything more than either confirming, ratifying, assenting, sanctioning or consenting, Vijayadevi Narulkishore Bhastia v. Land Accuisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83 (87). [Land Accuisition Act, 1894, s. 11(1)]Approval, does not mean anything more than either conferring, ratifying assenting, sanctioning or consenting. This is only an administrative power which limits the jurisdiction of the authority to apply its mind to see whether the proposed award is acceptable to the government or not, Vijayadevi Navalkishore Bhartia v. Land Acquisition Officer, (2003) 5 SCC 83....


Approval and Acceptance

Approval and Acceptance, -- Expression 'approval' presupposes an existing order. 'Acceptance' means communicated acceptance. A distinction exists between the expressions 'approval' and 'acceptance', Ashok Kumar Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 2006 SC 2879. [All India Services Act, 1951, s. 3]...


Institution of a case

Institution of a case, A case can be said to be instituted in a court only when the court takes cognizance of the offence alleged therein. When a Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitutes such offence a case is instituted in the Magistrates's court and such a case is one instituted on a com-plaint. Again, when a Magistrate takes cognizance of any offence upon a report in writing of such facts made by any police officer it is when a Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such offence a case is instituted in the Magistrates's Court and such a case is one instituted on a complaint, Jamuna Singh v. Bhadai Shah, AIR 1964 SC 1541 (1543): (1964) 5 SCR 37. [Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, ss. 417(3), 200, 202, 156(3) and 173]...


approval notice

approval notice A U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) immigration form, Notice of Action Form I-797, that says that USCIS has approved a petition, or request for extension of stay or change of status. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


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