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Lawful authorities

persons (such as the police) with the right to exercise public power, to require obedience to their lawful commands, and to command or act in the public name, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 892.

Master

Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (g)] Includes any person (except a pilot or harbour master) having command or charge of a ship. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(22)] In relation to any

Mandate

Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission. Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to

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Mandatum

given by the Romans to the procuratores and advocati. Mandatum is also used in the sense of a command from a superior to an inferior. See also MANDATE.

In the pay of

SCR 254. The phrase 'in the pay of' in clause Twelfth (a) does not inhere a master-servant or command-obedience relationship between the Government as the payer and the public servant as the payee and may comprehend a

Inhibition

Inhibition. An ancient synonym for PROHIBITION. In the (English) Ecclesiastical Law, the command of a bishop or ecclesiastical judge that a clergyman shall cease from taking any duty, See, e.g., Sequestration

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, and to do,

Impracticable

Impracticable means not practicable, incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed at command 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical difficulties or other reasons it is

Impracticability

International Dictionary 'impracticable' means not practicable; incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed or at command. 'Impractic-able' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical difficulties or other reasons it is

Impossible or impermissible

with 'impracticable'; 'impractic-able' means 'not practicable', incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed or at command; 'impracticable' is defined as incapable of being effected from lack of adequate means, impossible of performance, not feasible;

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