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charge

c : a person or thing placed under the care of another 2 : an authoritative instruction or command ;esp : instruction in points of law given by a judge to a jury [conviction…reversed, because of trial

officer

or enforcing the law [a police ] 2 : one who holds an office of trust, authority, or command [the directors, s, employees, and shareholders of a corporation] 3 : one who holds a position of authority

Commanding Officer

Commanding Officer, used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means the officer for the time being

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Enforcement

Art. 226) Has been defined as 'the act or process of compell-ing compliance with a law, mandate or command', (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573. The act or process

Writ

and QUO WARRANTO. A court's written order, in the name of a state or other competent legal authority, commanding addressee to do or refrain from doing some specified act, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. It is a

Sanction of a law

the provision for enforcing or promoting its observance. 'The evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed, or (to use an equivalent expression) in case a duty be broken, is frequently called a

Precept

Precept, a rule authoritatively given; a mandate: (1) A command in writing by a justice of the peace or other officer, for bringing a person or record before

Seraskier

A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire especially the commander in chief of minister of war

Disobey

Not to obey to neglect or refuse to obey a superior or his commands the laws etc to transgress the commands of one in authority to violate as an order as refractory

Habeas corpora juratorum

you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and

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