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comptroller general procurement decisions The Comptroller General's decisions issued regarding appropriations, bid protests, major rules and related issues. These decisions are prepared by the GAO's Office of General Counsel. Source: FindLaw ...
comptroller general
comptroller general : the accounting officer of the U.S. who investigates financial claims against or on behalf of the government ...
Comptroller
Comptroller, one who observes and examines the accounts of collectors of public money; an officer of the royal household; also the Comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade-marks, who has the immediate control of the Patent Office under the superintendence and direction of the Board of Trade. See the (English) Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932. The 1907 Act sets out (ss. 73-76) the powers and duties of the Comptroller....
Attorney-General
Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, His fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 325; (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 298; (English) Public Health (Officers) Act, 1884; (English) Public Health (Members and Officers) Act, 1885; Official Secrets Act, 1911, s. 8), his consent is necessary before penalties can be recovered. His fiat is necessary for certain appeals to the House of Lords. See (English) Appel...
General Council
General Council (of the Bar), the full title of the Bar Council. See BAR COUNCIL.General Council (of the Catholic Church), a council consisting of members of the Church from most parts of the world, but not from every part, as an --cumenical Council.'The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom' (Medical Act, 1858). The Medical Council, as it is commonly called, has power to settle the qualifications of medical practitioners and to strike off the register any of them convicted of felony or misdemeanour or judged guilty by the Council of 'infamous conduct in any professional respect' (s. 29), see R. v. General Medical Council, Ex parte Kynaston, (1930) 1 KB 562. The High Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with the Council's bona fide decision, Allbutt v. Medical Council, (1889) 23 QBD 400. The Council consists of five Crown nominees, twenty-two persons chosen by the same number of universities and colleges, and five persons elected by the registere...
Trade marks
Trade marks. by the Trade Marks Act, 1905 (English) (5 Edw. 7, c. 15), s. 3:-A 'mark' shall include a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter, numeral or any combination thereof.A 'trade mark' shall mean a mark used or proposed to be used upon or in connexion with goods for the purpose of indicating that they are the goods of the proprietor of such trademark by virtue of manufacture, selection, certification, dealing with, or offering for sale.A 'registrable trademark' shall mean a trade mark which is capable of registration under the pro-visions of this Act.Subject to the Trade Mark Acts, the owner of a trademark has a right to its use in connection with the goods associated with it, whether or not it is registered or registrable by him, and if that right is infringed by a sale of other goods under his mark, or a colourable imitation or otherwise so as to be calculated to deceive a purchaser that those goods are goods of his manufacture, sale or mark, the ...
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser. One of his functions is to review Court-martial proceedings. All general military courts-martial are attended by a judge advocate acting by deputation, either special or general, under the hand and seal of the judge advocate-general; or by a person appointed by general officers commanding the forces abroad, to execute the office of judge advocate. The duties of an officiating judge advocate at a Court-martial are to superintend the proceedings, to make a minute of the proceedings, and to advise the Court on points of law, of custom, and of form, and so far to assist the prisoner as to elicit a full statement of the facts material to the defence. The proceedings of general courts-martial held at home are trans-mitted by the officiating judge advocate to the judge advoc...
Procure
Procure, means to obtain, or get by care; effort or the use of special means; to procure evidence; to bring about especially by unscrupulous and indirect means; to procure secret documents; to obtain (women or girls) for the purpose of prostitution; to act as a procurer or pimp, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Edn., p. 1147.Means to take care of; to get possession of; obtain; to get and make available for promiscuous perusal intercourse; to bring about; achieve; to procure women, Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.The word 'procure' has been defined in the Century Dictionary to mean 'to obtain, as by request, loan, effort, labour, or purchase; get; gain; come into possession of'. It has been defined in the Oxford English Dictionary to mean 'to gain, win, get possession of, acquire'. This is the correct meaning of the word as used in sub-s. (5) of s. 123 of the Act; Balwan Singh v. Prakash Chand, AIR 1976 SC 1187 (1193): (1976) 3 SCR 335: (1976) 2 SC...
Majority
Majority. 1. The full age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting, provided that the whole number present be not less than a certain quorum (see QUORUM) of the whole body. See, e.g., Local Government Act, 1933, s. 75, and Parts I. to V. of the Third Schedule thereto. See MEETING, and as to restrictions upon the powers of a company exercised by a majority in general meeting, see Re Hoare & Co. Ltd., 150 LT 374....
Procuration
Procuration, an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione visitationis, consuetudinis, et pactiHardr. 180Bills of Exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, i.e., by an agent who has an authority for such a purpose, and 'a signature by procuration operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature if the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limits of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing a bill and adding words indicating that he signs in a representative capacity is not personally liable on the bill....
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