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Cabinet
Cabinet, is an inner body within the Council of Ministers which is responsible for formulating the policy of the Government. The Council of … individually and collectively responsible to Parliament. Cabinet functions as long as it enjoys confidence of Parliament, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, p. 73. In UK cabinet consists of the Prime Minister and such of his colleagues
Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled … Kingdom and India. That was the time when the doctrine of laissez-faire held sway and it dominated the political and economic scene. This doctrine glorified the concept of a free economic society in which State intervention in
delegate
responsibility) to another: as a : to transfer (one's contractual duties) to another b : to empower a body (as an administrative agency) to perform (a governmental function) see also nondelegation doctrine 2 : to appoint as … authorized to perform another's duties under a contract b : a representative to a convention (as of a political party) or conference c : a representative of a U.S. territory in the House of Representatives d :
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Sedition
them shall be kept secret from the society at large, or which shall have any committee or select body so chosen or appointed that the members constituting the same shall not be known by the society at … 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, s. 23, which has no parallel in the Act of 1799, political meetings of more than fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are
Residence
if he absent himself (without licence from the bishop, grantable by s. 43 for incapacity of mind or body, or illness of wife or child for six months) for more than three months in any year, he … one regularly resides as different to the places where he is connected to by mere ancestral connections or political connections or connection by marriage, Bhagwan Dass v. Kamal Abrol, AIR 2005 SC 2583. Residence, may be defined
Collective responsibility
of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. E, 6th Edn., p. 395. Means that the ministers must, as a body, lose their office if they cannot retain the confidence of the Popular House of the Legislature, Commentary on … Collective responsibility, the concept of collective responsibility is essentially a political concept. The country is governed by the party in power on the basis of the policies adopted and
Public meeting
whether the admission thereto be general or restricted.' Consult Odgers on Libel. As to public meetings of limited bodies, see MEET-ING. Consult Crewe, Procedure at Pub. And Co. Meetings. Means a meeting which is open to the … Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English law. Political meetings within a mile of Westminster Hall during the session of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings
Family
SCC 397: (1989) 3 SCR 1010. In its ordinary and primary sense, the term 'family' signifies the collective body of persons living in one house or under one head or manager or one domestic government. In its
Magna Carta
be found in our realm at the beginning of the wars, they shall be attached without harm of body or goods, until it be known unto us, or our chief justice, how our merchants be interested there … the Great Charter as the broad basis of our legislation, and the material guarantee of the freedom of political opinion, and of vindicating the right of publicly discussing and scrutinizing the conduct and measures of the Government
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