Skip to content

Authorised By Law - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Authorised by law

Matched in: Term Authorised by law

Competent authority

Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)] Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of … to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority responsible under the law of that country for promoting the safety of civil aviation, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1)

Duly authorised

Matched in: Term Duly authorised

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Oath

person taking it had no religious belief does not affect its validity, and swearing with uplifted hand is authorised by the enactment of s. 5 that-- If any person to whom an oath is administered desires to swear … taking an oath in all places and for all purposes where an oath is or shall be required by law, which affirmation shall be of the same force and effect as if he had taken the oath. By

Affidavit

commonly understood to mean a sworn statement in wiring made especially under oath or on affirmation before an authorised Magistrate or Officer. Affidavit has been defined in sub-clause (3) of s. 3 of the General Clauses Act, … FOR OATHS, and also AFFIRMATION and DECLARATION. It shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing. [The General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3

Imprisonment

or both, at the discretion of the court. Imprisonment for not more than two years is very frequently authorised, as an alternative to penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts … of 1897), s. 3(27)] The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It extends in law to confinement not only in a gaol, but in a house, or stocks, or to hold-ing a man

Lawful, Legal

subject of law suit'. (Black's Law Dictionary) Lawful on the other hand is defined as, 'legal, warranted or authorised by law'. Jurisprudentially a person in physical control or de facto possession may have an interest but no right to

Trespass

includes any wrongful act-any infringement or transgression of the rule of right. This use is common in the Authorised Version of Bible, and was presumably familiar when that version was first published. But it never obtained recognition … are respectively trespasses, for which an action of trespass on the case in trover and conversion, is given by law; so, also, non-performance of promises or undertakings is a trespass, upon which an action of trespass on the

Stare decisis

be fixed, definite and known, and that, when the law is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction authorised to construe it, such declaration, in absence of palpable mistake or error, is itself evidence of the law

Authority of law

legislative power relating to particular metters like Articles 276 to 286 or 301 and; the tax must be authorised by such valid law, Saurashtra Coment and Chemical Industries v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC 8 (16): (2001)

  • ‹ Prev
  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial