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Home Dictionary Name: functionaryMarket functionary or functionary
Market functionary or functionary, includes a broker, a commission agent, an exporter, a ginner, an importer, a presser, a processor, a stockiest, a trader and such other person as may be declared under the rules or the bye-laws to be a market functionary. [Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 (27 of 1966), s. (21)]...
Functionary
One charged with the performance of a function or office as a public functionary secular functionaries...
Acquisition
Acquisition, 'acquisition' means, directly or indirectly, acquiring or agreeing to acquire-(i) shares, voting rights or assets of any enterprise; or (ii) control over management or control over assets of any enterprise. [Competition Act, 2002 (12 of 2003), s. 2(a)]'Acquisition', with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes hiring, borrowing, or accepting as a gift. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(a)]The office of one functionary is brought to an end another functionary has come into existence in its place. Such a process cannot be said to constitute the acquisition of the extinguished office or the vesting of the rights in the person holding that office, Bira Kishore Deb v. State of Orissa, AIR 1964 SC 1501 (1508): (1964) 7 SCR 32. [Constitution of India, Art. 31(2), 19(1) (f)]Means taking not by voluntary agreement but by authority of an Act of Parliament and by virtue of the compulsory powers thereby conferred. In case of acquisition the property is taken by t...
dicast
A functionary in ancient Athens resembling closely to the modern juryman...
Pursuivant
A functionary of lower rank than a herald but discharging similar duties called also pursuivant at arms an attendant of the heralds Also used figuratively...
Bureau
Bureau [fr. bujo, It., dark], a large writing table; also the office of any functionary where public business is transacted.Means the Bureau of Energy Efficiency established under sub-s. (1) of s. 3. [Energy Conservation Act, (52 of 2001) s. 2(d); means the Bureau of Indian Standard established under s. 3; Bureau of Indian Standards Act, (63 of 1986), s. 2(b)]...
Chancellor, Lord
Chancellor, Lord, properly, 'the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain' [fr. Cancellarius, low Lat., cancelli, Lat., latticework], the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's Great Seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic (10 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was appointed, but is entitled to a pension. When royal commissions are issued for opening the session, for giving the royal assent to bills, or for proroguing Parliament, the Lord Chancellor is always one of the commissioners, and reads the royal speech on the occasion. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and the appointment and removal of county court judges (se...
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of speech and expression, includes freedom of propagation of idea which is ensured by freedom of circulation, Romesh Thappar v. State of Madras, AIR 1950 SC 124: 1950 SCR 594: 1950 Cri LJ 1514. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Carries with it the right to publish and circulate one's ideas, opinions and views, Sakal Papers (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1962 SC 305.Means the right to express one's opinion by words of mouth, writing, printing, picture or in any other manner. It would thus include the freedom of communication and the right to propagate or publish opinion, S. Rangarajan v. P. Jagjivan Ram, (1989) 2 SCC 574. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Includes right of citizens to exhibit films on Doordashan, Odyssey Communications (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Lokvidayan Sanghattana, (1988) 3 SCC 410. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Is a natural r...
Home Office
Home Office, the department of state (in Whitehall) through which the sovereign administers most of the internal affairs of the kingdom, especially the police and communications with the judicial functionaries, and under the general administra-tion of a Secretary of State called the Home Secretary....
Mace
Mace, a large staff, made of one of the precious metals, and highly ornamented. It is used as an emblem of authority, and carried before certain public functionaries by a mace-bearer....
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