Concurrent Resolution - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: concurrent resolutionconcurrent resolution
concurrent resolution : a resolution passed by both houses of a legislative body that lacks the force of law compare joint resolution ...
joint resolution
joint resolution : a resolution passed by both houses of a legislative body that has the force of law when signed by or passed over the veto of the executive compare concurrent resolution ...
resolution
resolution 1 : a formal expression of opinion, will, or intention voted by an official body (as a legislature) or assembled group see also concurrent resolution, joint resolution 2 : an expression or document containing authorization usually by a corporate board of directors of a particular act, transaction, agent, or representative [a corporate authorizing counsel to bind the corporation to a settlement] ...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
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