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Home Dictionary Name: commission of arrayCommission of array
Commission of array, issue to send into every county officers to muster or set in military order the inhabitants. The introduction of commissions of lieutenancy, which contained in substance the same powers as these commissions, superseded them, 2 Steph. Com....
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
Lieutenancy, Commission of
Lieutenancy, Commission of. See COMMISSIONOF ARRAY....
Array
Array [fr. aredare, It., to get ready], to rank or set forth a jury of men impannelled upon a cause. to challenge the array of the pannel is at once to except against all persons arrayed or impannelled, in respect of partiality or some default in the sheriff, Co. Litt. 156 a. If the sheriff to be affinity to any of the parties, or if anyone or more of the jurors are returned at the nomination of either party, or for any other partiality, the array shall be quashed, See Archbold's Criminal Pleading....
array
array : to set (a jury) for trial ;specif : to set (a jury) by calling out the names of the jurors one at a time compare impanel n : the group of people summoned to serve as jurors from which the jury will be chosen ;also : a list of the jurors' names see also challenge to the array at challenge compare venire ...
challenge to the array
challenge to the array see challenge ...
Challenge to the array
Challenge to the array, is the taking of exception to the whole panel of persons returned by the summoning officer by reason of matter personal to himself, and is either a principal challenge (on the ground of any partiality in the officer concerned in the summoning and return of the jury, as, for instance, if such officer is biased or has acted improperly) or 'for favour', where the position of the Summoning Officer is not necessarily inconsistent with indifference, but may be suspected, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 11(2), para 985, p. 829....
Election Commission
Election Commission, 'Election Commission' means the Election Commission referred to in Article 324. [Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 (1 of 1992), s. 2(d)]Means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324. [Representation of the People Act, 1950, s. 2 (d)]The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed only in the like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of a Supreme Court; his conditions of service cannot be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. An Election Commissioner or Regional Commissioner can be removed from office only on the recommendations of the Chief Election Commissioner. [Constitution of India, Art. 394(5)]Is a Constitutional body in India, created for the pur-pose of holding elections to Parliament, State Legislatures and Offices of President and Vice-President. [Constitution of India, Art. 324]Can disqualify a person for six years from voting on ground of conviction for certain offences. [Representati...
Commission Agent or Broker
Commission Agent or Broker, means a person who in the ordinary course of business makes contracts for the sale or purchase of excisable goods for others. [Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), s. 2 (aaa)]In commerce, the order by which anyone traffics or negotiates for another; also, and much more frequently, the percentage given to factors or agents for transacting the business of others.Earning Commission.--Commission may be earned by bringing contracting parties together, although an actual contract may not be made, Green v. Bartlett, (1863) 32 LJCP 261. From a contract to employ for a time certain on commission may be implied a contract to give opportunity to earn the commission throughout the time, Turner v. Goldsmith, 1891 (1) QB 544; Warren v. Agdeshman, 38 TLR 588].Commission from the other Party.--That an agent employed by his principal to sell or otherwise to negotiate with another take a pecuniary or other benefit from that other for himself as part of the negotiation, expre...
Non-commissioned officer
Non-commissioned officer, means a person holding a non-commissioned rank or an acting non-commissioned rank in the regular Army or the Indian Reserve Forces, and includes a non-commissioned officer or acting non-commissioned officer of the Indian Supplementary Reserve Forces or the Territorial Army who is for the time being subject to this Act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (xv)] [s. 132(3)(d), Cr. P.C.]Nonconformist. See DISSENTERS....
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