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Cabinet
Cabinet, is an inner body within the Council of Ministers which is responsible for formulating the policy of the Government. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to Lok Sabha. It is headed by the Prime Minister who determines which of the Ministers should be members of the cabinet. Only cabinet ministers have a right to attend its meetings. Minister of State attend its meetings only on a special invitation. The total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister, in the council of ministers should not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the House of the People, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., p. 133 [Arts. 75 and 75A, Constitution of India]In many commonwealth countries, cabinet is modelled on British pattern. In Canada, composition of cabinet is influenced by regional considerations. Australia follows the British practice of including only selected ministers in the cabinet, Practice and Procedure of P...
Cabinet Council
Cabinet Council, a private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state (all being Privy Councillors), to concert measures for the administration of public affairs; first established by Charles I., and not expressly recognized by law. For a sketch of the history and functions of the Cabinet, see Lord Morley's Walpole, ch. vii....
Common Council
Common Council, the councillors of the City of London. See COUNCIL....
Demise
Demise, a grant; it is applied to an estate either in fee or for term of life or years, but most commonly to the latter; it is used in writs for any estate, 2 Inst. 483.The operative word 'demise' in a lease implies a covenant on the part of the lessor for the lessee's quiet enjoyment during the term, Hart v. Windsor, (1843) 12 M&W 85; Markham v. Paget, (1908) 1 Ch 697; but an express covenant for quiet enjoyment excludes any implied one, Line v. Stephenson, (1838) 4 Bing NC 678.Of the Crown. The death of the sovereign, demissio regis vel coron', an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for when we say the demise of the Crown, we mean only that in consequence of the disunion of the sovereign's natural body from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor, and so the royal dignity remains perpetual, Plowd. 177. See (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707 (6 Anne, c. 41) (c. 7 as commonly printed), s. 8, as to continuance for six month...
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....
Parish meeting
Parish meeting. Established for every rural parish by the Local Government Act, 1894 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case of an election for each of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected; bound to assemble annually, or if thee be no parish council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of any 'adoptive Act' (see below) and other questions, any one elector may demand a poll. The chairman of the parish council, or any two parish councillors, or any six r...
Parochial electors
Parochial electors, the persons entitled to vote at an election of parish councillors shall be the persons entitled to vote by the Representation of the People Acts: see Local Government Act, 1933, s. 53, i.e., the local government electors whose names are on the register of electors: see the R. P. Acts of 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64), s. 4 (3), and 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 1....
Precedence or precedency
Precedence or precedency, the act or state of going before; adjustment of place.The rules of precedence may be reduced to the following list, in which those marked * are entitled to the rank here allotted them by 31 Hen. 8, c. 10; marked ' by 1 W. & M. c. 1; marked by letters-patent, 9, 10 & 14 Jac. 1, which see in Seld. Tit. of Hon. ii. 5, 46; marked ' by ancient usage and established custom, Camden's Brit., tit. 'Ordines'; Milles's Cat. of Hon. 1610; and Chamberlayne's Prest. St. of Eng., b. 3, c. iii; see 1 Bl. Com. 404.* The King's children and grandchildren.* The King's consort.* The King's uncles.* The King's nephews.* Archbishop of Canterbury (a).* Lord High Chancellor or Keeper, if a baron.* Archbishop of York.Prime Minister.By royal warrant dated December, 1905.* Lord Treasurer.* Lord President of the Council. } barons.* Lord Privy Seal.(a) The judges of assize, while on circuit, take pre-cedence of every subject.*Lord Great Chamberlain.But see Private Stat.1 Geo. 1, c. 3.* Lo...
Resignation
Resignation, implies that the party resigning has been elected to the office which he resigns: a man cannot 'resign' that which he is not entitled to, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 2299.Resignation, is a term of legal art having legal connotations which describe certain legal results. It is characteristically, the voluntary surrender of a position by the person on resigning, made freely and not under duress and the word is generally defined as an act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession or position, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 77, p. 311.Resignation, must be unconditional and with an intention to operate as such, Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition) Vol. 37, p. 476.Means the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right as conveyed by the maxim. Resignatio est juris propril spontanea refutatio, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn.Resignation, must be made with intention of relinquishment the office accompanied by act of relinquishment, Prabha Aarti v. State of Utta...
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...
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