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Executive

of the government which puts the laws into execution, as distinguished from the legislative and judicial branches. The body that deliberates and enacts laws is legislative; the body that judges and applies the laws in particular cases

Public authority

a purpose way, taking particular account of the context, McFarland HL(NI) (in re:), (2004) 1 WLR 1289.Is a body, not necessarily a country council, municipal corporation or other local authority, which has public or statutory duties to

State

AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3) The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over

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council

council : a governmental body: as a : a group elected as a legislative body [city ] b : an administrative body [

Competent authority

authority competent under any law for the time being in force to register any company, firm or other body of persons or any trademark or design or to grant a patent. [Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper

Entropy

A certain property of a body expressed as a measurable quantity such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant

Records creating agency

to the Central Government, any ministry, department or office of that Government. (ii) in relation to any statutory body or corporation wholly or substantially controlled or financed by the Central Government or commission or any committee constituted

Libration point

point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body

Corrupt practices

(English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889 (52& 53 Vict. c. 69), by which any member of such body soliciting or receiving, and any person promising or giving any member of such body any advantage as an

Coroner

(English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:-- Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person

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