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Computer system

instructions, input data and output data that performs logic, arithmetic, data storage and retrieval, communication control and other functions. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (l)]

Conductor

collecting fares from passengers, regulating their entrance into, or exit from, the stage carriage and performing such other functions as maybe prescribed. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (5)] Means any wire, cable, bar,

Consultation

SCC 1. Takes place by mutual discussions and a consensus is arrived at between different authorities performing different functions under the statutes, the purpose for which consultation was to be made would stand satisfied, Chairman & M.D.

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Circuity of action

59 (2) and 61 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882. See COUNTERCLAIM. One of the most beneficial functions of the Chancery Courts was exercised in its concurrent jurisdiction under which all parties concerned were brought before

County Councils

order (which must be submitted to Parliament for confirmation, s. 285) to transfer to the County Council and functions arising within the county of any conservators or othr public body (not being the council of a county

Course of public justice

of public justice, particularly in the criminal sphere, was not confined to the process of adjudication and included functions of the police such as the investigation of offence and the arrest of suspected persons, that where a

Creditor's committee

creditors may, in accordance with the Insolvency Rules 1986, establish a committee ('the creditors' committee') to exercise the functions conferred on it by or under Insolvency Act, 1986 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 316,

Definite matter of public importance

matter of public importance, the conduct of ministers of State Governments in the purported discharge of their official functions is certainly a 'definite matter of public importance' within the meaning of, s. 3(1) of the Commissions of

Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure

power is included in the grant of the power. A legislature cannot certainly strip itself of its essential functions and vest the same on an extraneous authority. The primary duty of law making has to be discharged

Lassitude

A condition of the body or mind when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty and only by a strong exertion of the will languor debility weariness

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