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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 Ministers is collectively responsible to Lok Sabha. It is headed by the Prime Minister who determines which of the Ministers should be members of the cabinet. Only cabinet ministers have a right to attend its meetings. Minister of State attend its meetings only on a special invitation. The total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister, in the council of ministers should not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the House of the People, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., p. 133 [Arts. 75 and 75A, Constitution of India]In many commonwealth countries, cabinet is modelled on British pattern. In Canada, composition of cabinet is influenced by regional considerations. Australia follows the British practice of including only selected ministers in the cabinet, Practice and Procedure of P...

Colleague

A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures...

double cross

to betray or swindle a colleague to promise a collaborator one thing and to treacherously do another to the detriment of the collaborator...

Back Bencher

Back Bencher, is the member of British Parliament or of those based on British pattern who are not among the party leadership, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965), p. 40.Back Bencher is an occupant of a seat in the House of Commons or similar assembly, used for a member not entitled to a front bench seat. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Philip Laundy & Wilding, p. 33.Back Bencher, neither holds office in Government nor belongs to the inner Councils of the party in opposition, he occupies any but the two front benches in the Chamber, though the member of a party he is generally regarded as being freer to differ from its policy than his colleagues on the front benches. Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965); Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hautrey (1956); H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970, p. 21....

Chairman

Chairman, 'Chairman' according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary means a person chosen to preside over meetings, e.g., one who presides over the meetings of the Board of Directors. In Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed., p. 230, the same expression is defined as a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Ed., pp. 189-190, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd Ed., p. 299, and Aiyer's Judicial Dictionary, 11th Ed., p. 238. The function of the Chairman would, therefore, be to preside over meetings, preserve order, conduct the business of the day, ensure that precise decisions are taken and correctly recorded and do all that is necessary for smooth transaction of business. The nature and duties of this office may vary depending on the nature of business to be transacted but b...

Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...

Substitute

Substitute, 1. One who stands in another's place 2. A person named in a will as heir to an estate after the estate has been held and then passed on by another specified person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1443.Mean 'to put in the place of another person or thing' or 'to exchange', Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1281.Means 'to serve or cause to serve in place of another person or thing; to replace with: or 'a person or thing that serves in place of another, such as a player in a game who take the place of an injured colleague' (Collins English Dictionary).Means the replacement of one by another, which might be equal to it, but differently expressed, N.N. Chakravarty v. State of Assam, AIR 1960 Assam 11; I.C. Sharma v. Union of India, (1992) 21 ATC 63; Vijayalakshmi Rice Mills; New Contractors Company v. State of Andhra Pradesh, 1976 UJ (SC) 367.Substitute, ordinarily would mean 'to put (one) in place of another; or 'to replace', Government of India v. Indian Tobacco Assn....

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