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General body, in relation to a multi-State co-operative society, means all the members of that society and in relation to a national co-operative society or a federal co-operative means all the delegates of member co-operative societies or delegates of Multi-State Co-operative Societies and includes a body constituted under the first proviso to sub-s. (1) of s. 38. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002), s. 3 (l)]...
Extraordinary General Meeting
Extraordinary General Meeting, means a special meeting of the General Body of a Sports Associa-tion other than an Annual General Meeting, Rajasthan Sports (Registration, Recognition and Regulation of Associations) Act, 2005, s. 2(j)....
Attorney-General
Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, His fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 325; (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 298; (English) Public Health (Officers) Act, 1884; (English) Public Health (Members and Officers) Act, 1885; Official Secrets Act, 1911, s. 8), his consent is necessary before penalties can be recovered. His fiat is necessary for certain appeals to the House of Lords. See (English) Appel...
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
general assembly
general assembly 1 : a legislative assembly ;esp : a U.S. state legislature 2 cap G&A : the supreme deliberative body of the United Nations ...
General tail
General tail, an estate-tail where one parent only is specified whence the issue must be derived, as to A. and the heirs of his body. See TAIL....
Esoteric
Designed for and understood by the specially initiated alone not communicated or not intelligible to the general body of followers private interior acroamatic said of discussions of technical topics and of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers Opposed to exoteric...
Lex mercatoria
Lex mercatoria, the mercantile law or general body of European usages in commercial matters, 1 Steph. Com....
Body corporate established by any law
Body corporate established by any law, the words 'body corporate established by any law' should be deemed to include even a body corporate established under any law i.e., even a company. But it appears that the words 'body corporate established by any law' have been deliberately used. While all companies and corporations, as defined in the Act are liable to pay bonus, the intention seems to be that only subsidies paid by body corporate established by any law, should be deductible items and not subsidies paid by bodies corporate established under any law. Sch. II, item 6(g), Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. Shri Ambica Mills Ltd. No. 1 v. Textile Labour Association, (1973) 3 SCR 123: AIR 1973 SC 1081: (1973) 3 SCC 787 (796)....
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser. One of his functions is to review Court-martial proceedings. All general military courts-martial are attended by a judge advocate acting by deputation, either special or general, under the hand and seal of the judge advocate-general; or by a person appointed by general officers commanding the forces abroad, to execute the office of judge advocate. The duties of an officiating judge advocate at a Court-martial are to superintend the proceedings, to make a minute of the proceedings, and to advise the Court on points of law, of custom, and of form, and so far to assist the prisoner as to elicit a full statement of the facts material to the defence. The proceedings of general courts-martial held at home are trans-mitted by the officiating judge advocate to the judge advoc...
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