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Home Dictionary Name: body politicCorporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
body politic
body politic pl: bod·ies politic : a group of individuals organized under a single governmental authority ...
Body politic
Body politic [fr. bodig, A. S.; bodhag, Gael.], the nation; also a corporation.A group of people regarded in a political (rather thana private) sense and organised under a single Government authority; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Body politics
Body politics, means a group of individuals organised under a single governmental authority, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 54....
Politic
Of or pertaining to polity or civil government political as the body politic See under Body...
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201.Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific politi...
Demise
Demise, a grant; it is applied to an estate either in fee or for term of life or years, but most commonly to the latter; it is used in writs for any estate, 2 Inst. 483.The operative word 'demise' in a lease implies a covenant on the part of the lessor for the lessee's quiet enjoyment during the term, Hart v. Windsor, (1843) 12 M&W 85; Markham v. Paget, (1908) 1 Ch 697; but an express covenant for quiet enjoyment excludes any implied one, Line v. Stephenson, (1838) 4 Bing NC 678.Of the Crown. The death of the sovereign, demissio regis vel coron', an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for when we say the demise of the Crown, we mean only that in consequence of the disunion of the sovereign's natural body from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor, and so the royal dignity remains perpetual, Plowd. 177. See (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707 (6 Anne, c. 41) (c. 7 as commonly printed), s. 8, as to continuance for six month...
Municipality
Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]Municipality, sh...
Political offence
Political offence. as to the meaning of 'offence of a political character' in the (English) Extradition Act, 1870, see Re Castioni, (1891) 1 QB 149, where it was held that to come within the words of the statute the offence must be incidental to and form part of political disturbances. Cf. Re Meunier, (1894) 2 QB 415.Offences of a political character are well known in International law and the Law of Extradition. The Indian Extradition Act refers to 'offences of a political character'. For our present purpose it is really unnecessary for us to enter into a discussion as to what are political offences except in a sketchy way. It is sufficient to say that politics are about government and therefore, a political offence is one committed with the object of changing the govern-ment of a State or inducing it to change its policy, Rajender Kumar Jain v. State, AIR 1980 SC 1510: (1980) 3 SCR 982: (1980) 3 SCC 435....
Political party
Political party, in UK origins of organised political parties are relatively recent. They were first acknowledged by Burke in 1769; according to some commentators, the parties originated in Whig and Tory Groups in the late seventeenth century, Political Parties in Modern Britain, John D. Lees and Richard Kinber, p. 1.Means the largest mass organisation of voters in modern government, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 417.Unlike in UK, the political parties in India are registered with Election Commission, Representa-tion of the People Act, 1951, s. 29A....
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