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of a region of the U S generally including Kentucky and West Virginia...
Lyonnais
a former province of east central France now administered by Rhone Alpes...
Somali
A Hamitic people of East Central Africa...
Central Criminal Court
Central Criminal Court. This court was created by the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1834 (4 & 5 Wm. , c. 36), for the trial of all cases of treasons, murders, felonies, and misdemeanours committed within the county of Middlesex, and in certain specified parts of the counties of Essex, Kent, and Surrey, all of which constitute one county for the purpose of the Act, and also commissions of goal delivery to deliver the goal of Newgate of the prisoners therein charged with any of the offences aforesaid. The Court consists of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and also of the Judges; and there are twelve sessions held in every year, at times fixed by four or more of the judges of the High Court, (English) (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 74). The 17th section of the Act authorizes the Court to try offences committed on the high seas; and the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 16) [see (English) Palmer's Act], authorizes the King's Bench Division of the High Court to orde...
East India Company
East India Company. The East India Company was originally established for prosecuting the trade between England and India, which they acquired as a right to carry on exclusively. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, the company's political affairs had become of far more importance than their commerce. In 1858, by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 106, the government of the territories of the company was transferred to the Crown. Consult Mill's History of British India; Jac. Law Dict. See INDIA.The company that was originally established to pursue exclusive trade between England and India and that later become more active in political affairs than in commerce, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 529....
Centralization
The act or process of centralizing or the state of being centralized the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole as the centralization of power in the general government the centralization of commerce in a city...
centralized
drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority as centralized control of emergency relief efforts centralized government Opposite of decentralized...
Central Public Information Officer
Central Public Information Officer, means the Central Public Information Officer designated under sub-s. (1) and includes a Central Assistant Public Information Officer destructed as such under sub-s. (2) of s. 5 [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(c)]...
Central Vigilance Commissioner
Central Vigilance Commissioner, means the Central Vigilance Commissioner appointed under sub-s. (1) of s. 4. [Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003 (45 of 2003), s. 2(a)]...
Centralism
The state or condition of being central the combination of several parts into one whole centralization...
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