Conservator

conservator 1 : a person, official, or institution appointed by a court to take over and manage the estate of an incompetent compare committee, curator, guardian, receiver, tutor 2 : a public official charged with the protection of something affecting public welfare and interests ;specif : an official placed in charge of a bank because its affairs are not in a satisfactory condition con·ser·va·tor·ship n ...

Conservator

Conservator, a protector, preserver, or maintainer; or a standing arbitrator chosen and appointed as a guarantee, to compose and adjust differences that should arise between two parties, etc., Paroch. Antiq. 513....

Conservation

Conservation, includes preservation, maintenance sustainable, utilisation, restoration and enhance-ment of the natural environment, T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpal v. Union of India, (2006) 1 SCC 1.The expression 'conservation' means 'the act of keeping or protecting from loss or injury'. With reference to the natural resources, the expression in the context means preservation of mineral; the wide scope of the expression 'conservation of minerals' comprehends any rule reasonably connected with the purpose of protecting the loss of coal through the waste of coal mine, such a rule may also regulate the discharge of slurry or collection of coal particles after the water content of slurry is soaked by soil, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1990) 4 SCC 557 (572). [Mines and Minerals, (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 18(1)]...

Energy conservation building codes

Energy conservation building codes, means the norms and standards of energy consumption expressed in terms of per square metre of the area wherein energy is used and includes the location of the building. [Energy Conservation Act, 2001 (52 of 2001), s. 2(j)]...

Conservancy of the thames

Conservancy of the thames. See (English) Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii., Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames,' and THAMES, post....

Conservancy measures

Conservancy measures, means measures after the purpose of conservancy, but does not include measures for the protection of banks against floods or for restricting banks which have become eroded mainly on account of reasons not connected with shipping and navigation. [Inland Waterways Authority of India, Act. (82 of 1985), s. 2(e)]...

Conservators of the truce and safe conducts

Conservators of the truce and safe conducts, officers appointed to hear and determine questions relating to the breaking of the king's truce and safe conducts upon the main sea, out of the liberties of the Cinque Ports. It was enacted by 18 Hen. 6, c. 4, that if any of the king's subjects attempt or offend upon the sea, or in any port within the king's obeisance, against any stranger in amity, league, or truce, or under safe conduct, and especially by attacking his person, or spoiling him, or robbing him of his goods, the Lord Chancellor, with any of the justices of either the King's Bench or Common Pleas, should cause full restitution and amends to be made to the party injured, Jac. Law Dict....

Conservant

Having the power or quality of conservation...

Conservators of the peace

Conservators of the peace, officers appointed by the Common Law for the maintenance of the public peace. Of these, some had and still have this power annexed to other offices which they hold; others had it merely by itself, and were thence called custodes or conservatores pacis. Those that were so, virtute officii, still continue; but the latter sort are superseded by the justices of the peace, first established in the reign of Edw. III., by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16....

Conservancy

Conservancy, includes dredging, training, closure, diversion or abandoning channels. [Inland Water-ways Authority of India, Act, (82 of 1985), s. 2(d)]...

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