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passport A document issued by competent authority showing the bearer's origin, identity, and nationality, which is valid for the entry of the bearer into a foreign country. Source: FindLaw ...
Divorce
A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority This is properly a divorce and called technically divorce a vinculo matrimonii...
Administrator
Administrator, means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002). [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 80C(8)(i)].Administrator means a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)]--he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice). (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 56(3). By the (English) Court of Probate Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) (re-enacted in (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 175), 'Administration' includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without the will annexed, and whether granted for ge...
Allowed
Allowed, may mean some positive sanction and not mere slackness on the part of the competent authority in not taking action for getting the premises vacated, Maheshchandra Trikamji Gajjar v. State of Maharashtra, (2003) 3 SCC 295. [Bombay Land Acquisition Act, 1948, s. 5(1A) and 15B]...
mandamus
mandamus [Latin, we enjoin, from mandare to enjoin] : an extraordinary writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction to an inferior tribunal, a public official, an administrative agency, a corporation, or any person compelling the performance of an act usually only when there is a duty under the law to perform the act, the plaintiff has a clear right to such performance, and there is no other adequate remedy available ;also : an action in the nature of a writ of mandamus in jurisdictions where the writ is abolished compare cease-and-desist order at order, injunction, stay NOTE: Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy and is issued usually only to command the performance of a ministerial act. It cannot be used to substitute the court's judgment for the defendant's in the performance of a discretionary act. mandamus vb ...
Commencement of trial
Commencement of trial, until and unless the competent authority convenes the Gcm and the GCM assembles to consider the charge and examines whether they would proceed with the trial, the trial does not commence. The preliminary investigation conducted in such cases do not amount to commencement of trial, Shiv Prasad Panday v. Director C.B.I., AIR 2003 SC 1974 (1980): (2003) 11 SCC 508. (Border Security Force Act, 1968, ss. 141, 84)...
Cost of land
Cost of land, 'cost of land' means the market value of the land as determined by the competent authority of the State Government or the Government of the Union territory appointed for such determination, as the case may be. [Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, (13 of 2003), s. 2(d)]...
Cost of living index number
Cost of living index number, in relation to employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared by the competent authority by notification in the Official Gazette to be the cost of living index number applicable to employees in such employment. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (d)]...
Determination
Determination, the word 'determination' so far as it related to the period of requisition prior to January 10, 1968, was a determination, final in character whether it was right or wrong as having been made under the Defence Act. But for the period thereafter, the word 'determination' in the context would mean 'final determination' i.e. the determination of the competent authority if unchallenged and becoming final, and if appealed against, final determination by the appellate forum, Special Military Estate Officer v. Munivenkataramiah, (1990) 2 SCC 168: AIR 1990 SC 499...
Fit institution
Fit institution, means a governmental or a registered non-governmental organization or a voluntary organization prepared to own the responsibility of a child and such organization is found fit by the competent authority. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (h)]...
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