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congressional district : a territorial division of a state from which a member of the U.S. House of Representatives is elected ...
district
district : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) for administrative, judicial, electoral, or other purposes: as a : an administrative unit esp. of a town or city established for the performance of a special governmental function [the water ] [park ] b : congressional district c : one of the divisions of the United States or of the individual states served by a particular federal or state court see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
Congressional Record
Congressional Record : the published record of the daily proceedings in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives ...
Congressional
Of or pertaining to a congress especially to the Congress of the United States as congressional debates...
District Registry
District Registry. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 84, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 60, it is provided that to facilitate proceedings in country districts the Crown may, from time to time, by Order in Council, create district registries and appoint district registrars for the purpose of issuing writs of summons and for entertaining proceedings generally in an action down to and including entry for trial. Documents sealed in any such district registrary are to be received in evidence without further proof; and the district registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power, however, is given to a judge to remove proceedings from a district registry to the Office of the High Court; and see generally, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 84-87, and Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 74 and 66, which are still unrepealed. By Order in Council of 12th of August, 1875, a number of district registries have ...
district court
district court often cap D&C : a trial court having general or limited jurisdiction in a judicial district: as a : one of the federal trial courts sitting in a federal district b : a trial court within a state court system see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts). Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Collector of the District
Collector of the District, The expression 'Collector of the district' which is a component of the first part of the definition is not defined in the Cotton Cess Act,1923. But the General Clauses Act 10 of 1897 defines 'Collector' as meaning 'in a Presidency town, the Collector of Calcutta, Madras of Bombay as the case may be, and elsewhere the Chief Officer-in-charge of the revenue administra-tion of a district', Devanagere Cotton Mills Ltd. v. Dy. Commissioner (1961) 2 SCR 556: AIR 1961 SC 1441....
District
District [fr. districtus, Lat.]: (1) The circuit or territory within which a person may be compelled to appear; (2) Circuit of authority; province.See [Constitution of India, Art. 243(a)]District means a district in a State. [Constitution of India, Art. 243(a), Art. 243P(a)]...
District Council
District Council: (1) Urban, the name given to an urban sanitary authority, not being the council of a municipal borough, by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural voting for, and any property qualification of, such authority; (2) Rural, the governing body under the same Act of every rural sanitary district, consisting of chairman and councillors, elected by the parishes or other areas. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (2 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 31, which deals with the constitution of district councils. This Act consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to the subject....
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