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Beadle, or Bedel

cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled. … execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds

Judicial and administrative functions

Judicial and administrative functions, The functions discharged by a High Court can be divided broadly into judical and administrative functions. The judicial functions are to be discharged essentially by … collectively or in a group of two or more, and may be delegated or entrusted by authorization to subordinates unless there be some rule of law restraining such delegation or authorisation, Jamal Uddin Ahmed v. Abu Saleh

Deep Rock doctrine

a debtor corporation found to have been used for fraudulent transfers to its parent corporation in the Supreme Court case Taylor v. Standard Gas and Electric Co. (Deep Rock), 306 U.S. 307(1939)] : a doctrine holding that … esp. a stockholder with controlling interest who makes a loan to his or her own corporation will be subordinated to the claims of outside creditors if the corporation is deemed undercapitalized

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master

findings are to be final. adj : being the principal or controlling one : governing a number of subordinate like things [a insurance policy] … owner of a slave b : employer compare servant c : principal 2 : an officer of the court appointed (as under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 53) to assist a judge in a particular case by

Administrator

grant is required. There is also what is known as an ancillary administration, so called because it is subordinate to the original administration, which is granted for collecting the assets of foreigners; it is take out in … property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice). (English) Supreme Court of Judicature

administrator

is incapable of performing or unwilling to perform called also administrator cum testamento annexo ancillary administrator : a subordinate administrator appointed to administer the assets of an estate that are located in a different jurisdiction from the … administrator 1 : a person appointed by a probate court to manage the distribution of the assets in the estate of a person who has died without leaving

Regulation

for general course of action. Rules and Regulations are all comprised in delegated legislations. The powers to make subordinate legislation is derived from the enabling Act and it is fundamental that the delegate on whom such a … rule or order prescribed for management or governance [see in this context the decision of the Punjab High Court in the case of Municipal Committee, Malerkotla v. Haji Ismail, AIR 1967 Punj 32: ILR (1966) 1 Punj

Instrument

be understood as including reference to a formal legal writing like an order made under a statute or subordinate legislation or any document of a formal character made under constitutional or statutory authority, Mohan Choudhary v. Chief … 1899), s. 2 (14)] Ordinary, the word 'instrument' would refer to documents executed by the parties. the High Court was in error in coming to the conclusion that the word 'instrument' did not include an award, Purshottam

Condition of service

311 (1) of the Constitution which lays down that no public servant shall be dismissed by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed and if any such legislative provisions or rule lays down otherwise, … R. 5C] The expression 'conditions of service' is an expression of wide import. As pointed by the Supreme Court in Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, (1955) 2 SCR 1331, the

mortgage

other specified event occurs, or at a fixed maturity date second mortgage : a mortgage lien that is subordinate in priority to a first mortgage called also junior mortgage senior mortgage : first mortgage in this entry … does not have the form of a mortgage but is given the effect of a mortgage by a court of equity because the parties intended it to be a mortgage first mortgage : a mortgage that has

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