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Highway administration

Highway administration, means the Highway Administration established under s. 3, the Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002, s. 2(f)....


Highways

Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...


Highway

Highway, means a National Highway declared as such under s. 2 of the National Highway Act, 1956 (48 of 1956) and includes any Expressway or Express Highway vested in the Central Government, whether surfaced or unsurfaced, and also includes:(i) all lands appurtenant to the Highway, whether demarcated or not, acquired for the purpose of the Highway or transferred for such purpose by the State Government to the Central Government;(ii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures constructed on or across such Highway; and(iii) all trees, railings, fences, posts, paths, signs, signals, kilometre stone and other Highway accessories and materials on such Highways. [Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002 (13 of 2003), s. 2(e)]1. Broadly, any main route on land, on water, or in air2. Jain Public road connecting towns or cities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 734....


Highway rate

Highway rate, a tax for the maintenance and repair of highways, now forming part of the general rate; see the Rating and Valuation Acts, 1925-1932....


Highway robbery

Highway robbery. See (English) ROBBERY, and Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 40-43), in which, however, no distinction is drawn between highway and any other robbery....


administrator

administrator 1 : a person appointed by a probate court to manage the distribution of the assets in the estate of a person who has died without leaving a valid will or leaving a will that does not name an executor able or willing to perform see also administratrix letters of administration at letter compare executor, personal representative administrator ad litem : an administrator appointed to represent an estate that is a necessary party to a lawsuit administrator cum testamento annexo : administrator with the will annexed in this entry administrator de bo·nis non [-dē-bō-nis-nÄ n, -dā-bō-nis-nōn] : an administrator appointed to administer the remaining assets in the estate when the preceding administrator or executor can or will no longer perform administrator pen·den·te li·te [-pen-den-tē-lī-tē, -pen-den-tā-lē-tā] : special administrator in this entry administrator with the will annexed : an ...


Administrator

Administrator, means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002). [Income Tax Act, 1961, s. 80C(8)(i)].Administrator means a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)]--he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors appointed, accepting, or surviving, is committed by the Probate Court (now the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice). (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 56(3). By the (English) Court of Probate Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) (re-enacted in (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 175), 'Administration' includes all letters of administration of the effects of deceased persons, whether with or without the will annexed, and whether granted for ge...


Administration

Administration, the giving or supplying of something. The term is used in three different senses. (1) granting of letters of administration to an administrator by the Probate Division. (2) The administration of the estate of a deceased person by an executor or administrator, i.e., the payment of his debts and the distribution of his assets among the persons entitled. See ss. 32 et seq., First Sched., Part III., of the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and Re Tony, (1931) 1Ch 202. (3) The administration of the estate by the Chancery Division in cases where difficulties have arisen in the course of administration. Orders for administration by the Chancery Division are made on originating summons, and only by the judge in person. see Trist. And Coote, Prob. Pr.; R. S. C. Ord. LV., rr. 3 et seq.; Seton on Judgments. And see ADMINISTRATOR; WIDOW.The body of ministers appointed by the Crown to carry on the government of the country; now more commonly called 'the Government.'The ...


Administrative law

Administrative law, is a separate body of rules relating to administrative authorities and officials, applied in special administrative court. Dicey's Law of the Constitution, 1st Edn. 1885. Dicey's Law of Constitution, 10th Edn., p. 330. See also Re Grosvenor Hotel, London, (No. 2), 1965 Ch D 1210 at p. 1261: (1964) 3 All ER 354; Re Racal case of Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147: (1969) 1 All ER 208 (HL); Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union, (1971) 2 QB 175: (1971) 1 All ER 148.Administrative law is understood to mean the law relating to the discharge of functions of a public nature in government and administration. It includes the law relating to functions of public authorities and officers and of tribunals, judicial review of the exercise of those functions, the civil liability and legal protection of those purporting to exercise them and aspects of the means whereby extra-judicial redress may be obtainable at the instance of persons aggrieved. H...


Quasi judicial

Quasi judicial, the expression 'quasi judicial' is not always used with clarity and accurately. Custo-dian, though not a court in the ordinary sense, is an authority which exercises judicial functions or functions analogous to the judicial, and thus he is described as a 'quasi judicial' authority, Parduman Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1958 Punj 63.It is a term that is ............ not easily definable. In the United States, the phrase often covers judicial decisions taken by an administrative agency -- the test is the nature of the tribunal rather than what it is doing. In England quasi-judicial belongs to the administrative category and is used to cover situations where the administrator is bound by the law to observe certain forms and possibly hold a public hearing but where he is a free agent in reaching the final decision. If the rules are broken, the determination may be set aside, but it is not sufficient to show that the administration is biasedin favour of a certain policy, or...


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