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Home Dictionary Name: implied authority Page: 2Delegation of authority of power
Delegation of authority of power, is a term which like the word 'delegate' does not imply a parting with powers by the person who grants the delegation, but points rather to the conferring of an authority to do things which otherwise that person would have to himself, Ishwar Singh v. State of Rajasthan, (2005) 2 SCC 334....
Cognovit actionem
Cognovit actionem (he has confessed the action), a defendant's written confession of an action brought against him, to which he has no available defence. it is usually upon condition that he shall be allowed a certain time for the payment of the debt or damages, and costs. It is supposed to be given in Court, and it impliedly authorizes the plaintiff's solicitor to do everything necessary in order to obtain judgment.By the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), s. 24, a warrant of attorney to confess judgment in any personal action, or cognovit actionem given by any person, is not of any force unless there is present some solicitor of the Supreme Court on behalf of such person, expressly named by him, and attending at his request to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant or cognovit before the same is executed, which solicitor must subscribe his name as a witness; and the same Act also contains various provisions in regard to the filing of warrants of attorney,...
Power
Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law to do that which without that sanction it could not have done, consent cannot give jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, is an authority reserved by, or limited to, a person to dispone, either wholly or partially, of movable or immovable property, either for his own benefit or for that of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the dominion which a man has over his own estate by virtue of ownership, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Power, is not synonymous with jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, may be general or implied. The general powers are such as the donee can exercise in favour of such person or persons as he pleases, including himself, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218.Means any form of energy which is not generated by human or animal agency. [The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act...
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697.Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to amount, or as to the character of the questions to be determined.By 'jurisdiction' is meant the extent of the power which is conferred upon the court by its constitu-tion to try a proceedings, Raja Soap Factory v. S.P. Shantharaj, AIR 1965 SC 1449 (1451): (1965) 2 SCR 800.The word 'jurisdiction' is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally means the entitle-ment 'to enter upon the enquiry in question'. If there was an entitlement to enter upon an enquiry, ...
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201.Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific politi...
Husband and wife
Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could not make a grant to his wife at the Common Law, though he might do so: (1) under the Statute of Uses, by granting an estate to another person for her use; (2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will.Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' very largely modified the Common Law in favour of the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband a...
Ultra vires
Ultra vires [Lat.] (beyond the powers), said of a corporation or company when exceeding its authority. If the powers are given or acquired at common law or by custom or by charter, the corporation is a person at common law and may do anything which an ordinary person can do [Wenlock (Baroness) v. River Dee Co., (1885) 10 AC 354; British South Africa Co. v. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., (1910) 1 Ch 354], subject to the consequences if the act is prohibited by the Charter or Act of Parliament, or by law directly or indirectly, Jenkins v. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, (1921) 1 Ch 392. On the other hand, a cor-poration or company which is created by or under statute cannot do anything at all unless authorized expressly or impliedly by the statute or instrument defining its powers. An act done ultra vires a corporation means that it is 'an act which the company in general meeting could not authorize, and an act which, if every individual corporator assented to it, would still...
Revocation of agency
Revocation of agency. An agency is dissolved or determined in several ways:-(I) by the act of the principal, either(a) Express, as(1) By direct and formal writing, publicly a advertised;(2) By informal writing to the agent privately;(3) By parol; or(b) Implied from circumstances as by appointing another person to do the same act, where the authority of both would be incompatible.The exceptions to the power of the principal to revoke his agent's authority at mere pleasure are--(1) When the principal has expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent has also an interest in its execution.(2) Where an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or is given for a valuable consideration, or is a part of a security, unless there is an express stipulation that it shall be revocable.(3) When an agent's act in pursuance of his authority has become obligatory, for nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam.(II.) By the agent's giving notice to his pri...
Actual authority
Actual authority, means the authority that a principal intentionally confers on an agent, including the authority that the agent reasonably believes he or she has as a result of the agent's dealings with the principal. Actual authority can be either express or implied, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 27....
Fairness
Fairness, is a fundamental principle of good administration. It is a rule to ensure the vast power in the modern State is not abused but properly exercised. The State power is used for proper and not for improper purposes. The authority is not misguided by extraneous or irrelevant considerations. Fairness is also a principle to ensure that statutory authority arrives at a just decision either in promoting the interest or affecting the rights of persons, M.S Mally Bharat Engg. Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1990) 2 SCC 48 (55).Implies that even an administrative authority must act in good faith; and without bias, apply its mind to all relevant considerations and must not be swayed by irrelevant consideration, must not be act arbitrarily or capriciously and must not come to a conclusion which is perverse or is such that no reasonable body of persons properly informed could arrive at, Pyrites, Phosphates & Chemicals Ltd. v. Bihar Electricity Board, AIR 1996 Pat 1....
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