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Home Dictionary Name: functionalExecutive function
Executive function, it may not be possible to frame an exhaustive definition of what executive function means and implies. Ordinarily the executive power connotes the residue of governmental functions that remain after legislative and judicial functions are taken away. The executive function comprises both the determination of the policy as well as carrying it into execution. This evidently includes the initiation of legislation, the maintenance of order, the promotion of social and economic welfare, the direction of foreign policy, in fact the carrying on or supervision of the general administration of the State, Ram Janaya Kapur v. State of Punjab, AIR 1955 SC 549 (555, 556): (1955) 2 SCC 225....
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 the Judges as per the rules of the Court and cannot be delegated. However, administrative functions need not necessarily be discharged by the Judges by themselves, whether individually or 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 Najmuddin, (2003) 4 SCC 257: AIR 2003 SC 1917...
Quasi judicial function
Quasi judicial function, is an administrative function which the law requires to be exercised in some respects as if it were judicial. A typical example is a minister deciding whether or not to confirm a compulsory purchase order or to allow a planning appeal after a public inquiry. The decision itself is administrative, dictated by policy and expediency. But the procedure is subject to the principles of natural justice, which require the minister to act fairly towards the objections and not to take fresh evidence without disclosing it to them, Wade & Forsyth's Administrative Law; see also Indian National Congress (I) v. Institute of Social Welfare, (2002) 5 SCC 685....
functional obsolescence
functional obsolescence see obsolescence ...
Functional
Pertaining to or connected with a function or duty official...
Functionalize
To assign to some function or office...
Functionally
In a functional manner as regards normal or appropriate activity...
Function
Function [fr. fungor, Lat., to perform], employment; discharge of office.1. Activity that is appropriate to a particular business or profession 2. office duty, occupation of an office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 681.In relation to a computer, includes logic, control, arithmetical process, deletion, storage and retrieval and communication or telecommunication from or within a computer. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (u)]...
Court
Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...
government
government 1 : the act or process of governing ;specif : authoritative direction or control 2 : the office, authority, or function of governing 3 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : rule 4 a : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it b : the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out 5 : the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as a : the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency b cap : the executive branch of the U.S. federal government c : the prosecution in a criminal case in its capacity as agents of the political unit [the failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonab...
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