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Crown

C. 1), 'restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesistical and Spiritual and abolishing all Foreign Power repugnant to the same,' after repealing 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8, reviving the Foreign

Sovereignty

the inter-national independence of a State combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign dictation; also a political society or State which is sovereign and independent, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p.

jurisdiction

state) to govern or legislate [the trade bill was within the Ways and Means committee's ] [whether a foreign state shall be subject to the of another] ;broadly : the power or right to exercise authority [the department

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Act of State

Matched in: Term Act of State

Government

nation or state; an organisation through which a body of people exercise political authority; the machinery by which foreign prover is exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703. It means, in relation to any major port,

Cognizance

course of proceedings in Parliament, the privileges of the House of Commons, the existence of war with a foreign state, the several seals of the King, the Supreme Court and its jurisdiction, and many other things. A judge

Desertion

the armed forces without fully disclosing the fact that he has not been regularly separated, or enters any foreign armed service except when authorized by the United States; is guilty of desertion Code of Military Justice, 10 … no general principle applicable to all cases. Desertion is not the withdrawal from a place but from a state of things, for what the law seeks to enforce is the recognition and discharge of the common obligations

Affairs of State

Matched in: Term Affairs of State

Reasonable restriction

freedom such as sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, public order, friendly relations with foreign States, decency, morality etc. [Constitution of India, Art. 19(2), (3), (4), (5) and (6)] Means that the limitation

state workforce agency

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