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Crown Office, a department originally belonging to the Court of King's Bench. The Act (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20) abolished the clerks in this Court and themonopoly of their practice, throwing it opento all persons admitted or admissible to practise as attorneys of the then Court of Queen's Bench; it also abolished several ancient offices and many burthen some fees,and made the office subject to the direct control of the Lord Chief Justice. Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 104 et seq. Replaces the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 78), which amalgamated the Crown Office with the Cntral Office of the Supreme Court, and transferred to such Central Office the' King's Coroner and Attorney' and the 'Masterof the Crown Office.'. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord.LXI., and Short and Mellor's Crown Office Practice....
Master of the Crown Office
Master of the Crown Office, the Crown coroner and attorney in the criminal department of the court of King's Bench, who prosecuted at the relation of some private person or common in former, the Crown being the nominal prosecutor, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. He is now an officer of the Supreme Court. See CROWN OFFICE....
Crown Office Act
Crown Office Act, 1877 (English) (40 & 41 Vict. c. 41), provides for the authentication, etc., of documents issued from the office of the Crown in chancery....
Crown Office Rules, 1906
Crown Office Rules, 1906, a large body of Rules, 269 in number,with Forms and Tables of Fees,issued by the Rules Committee of the Supreme Court, superseding the 308 Rules of 1886 as from October 24h, 1906, and regulating the whole practiceand procedure of the Crown Side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court in Certiorari, Criminal Information, Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Quo Warranto and other matters....
Crown side
Crown side of the King's Bench Division of High Court, tht side of the division on which the litigious business of the Crown Office (see CROWN OFFICE) is conducted before the same judges of the Division as those by whom actions between subject and subject are tried, but by a separate staff of officers...
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. See (English) Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1881 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 81), s. 8, by which this officer performs the duties of clerk of the hanaper (see HANAPER) and receives ballot papers, etc., after a parliamentary election from the returning officers under Rule 38 of Schedule I. of (English) the Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33).The head of the permanent staff of the crown office in chancery responsible for reading the titles of bills in the house of lords, sending out writs of summons to peers, and issuing election writs, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Crown agent
Crown agent, the solicitor to the Department of the Lord Advocate. His office is called the 'Crown Office.'...
Crown office
The criminal branch of the Court of Kings or Queens Bench commonly called the crown side of the court which takes cognizance of all criminal cases...
Crown side
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Office of profit
Office of profit, a person who was a Pramukh at the time of filing of nomination papers and who was drawing a honorarium was not holding an office of profit, Umrao Singh v. Yeshwant Singh, AIR 1970 Raj 134 (141). [Constitution of India, Art. 102(1)(a)]It need not be in the service of Government. Generally it is understood that an office means a position to which certain duties are attached. An office of profit involves two elements namely that there should be such an office and that it should carry some remunerations. It is not the same as holding a post under the Government and therefore for holding an office of profit under the Government, a person need not be in the service of the Government, Satrucharla Chandrasekhar Raju v. Vyricherla Pradeep Kumar Devi, AIR 1992 SC 1959: (1992) 4 SCC 404.The word 'office' does not, therefore, necessarily imply that it must have an existence apart from the person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the Special know...
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