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bill
expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial … [-pər-ti-kyə-lərz] : a bill that a defendant may request in which the prosecution sets out in detail the facts forming the basis for the criminal charges against the defendant no bill : a bill returned by a
report
sometimes official statement giving the conclusions and recommendations of a person (as a master) or group (as a legislative committee) authorized or delegated to consider a matter or proposal [the committee made an unfavorable on the bill] … report : a usually detailed account or statement: as a : an account or statement of the facts of a case heard and of the decision and opinion of the court or of a quasi-judicial tribunal
Resolution
or assembly, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313. Resolution, is the expression of the opinion of the legislative body with reference to some subject or a declaration of its intention to do something, Parlia-mentary Dictionary, L.A. … chairman's declaration that the resolution is carried shall, unless a poll is demanded, be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution (Companies
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Rule of law
the other is that, even in the hands of a democratically elected legislature, there should not be unfettered legislative power, and lastly there must be an independent judiciary to protect the citizen against excesses of executive and … of Constitution, A.V. Dicey, 2003, pp. 202-203. Means an authoritative legal doctrine, principle or precept applied to the facts of an appropriate case, Wright v. Wright, 904 P 2d 403 (1995). Rule of law, the binding character
Income
way in which that term might have been deployed in a fiscal statute. The expression 'income' in the legislative entry has always been understood in a wide and comprehensive connotation to embrace within it every kind of … some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference to the peculiar facts of that case. Money received 'under consequential loss policies, were income within the meaning of s. 2(6c) of
intent
one intended may nevertheless be held to have intended the harmful result 2 a : intendment see also legislative intent b : the purpose of a document (as a contract or will) c : the aim or … intent 1 : the act or fact of intending: as a : the design or purpose to commit a wrongful or criminal act called also
Cruelty
of physical injury but the legislature thought it fit to include only coercive harassment with obviously as the legislative intent expressed is equally heinous to match the physical injury; where as one is patent, the other one … be such wilful treatment of the party which caused suffering in body or mind either as an actual fact or by way of apprehension in such a manner as to render to continued living together of spouses
Law
Lepcha v. State of Sikkim, AIR 2006 Sikkim 1. The law of foreign countries is a question of fact in English Courts. See FOREIGN LAW. It (English) is also sometimes used as opposed to equity, meaning the … procedure established by law made by the State, that is to say, by the Union Parliament or the Legislatives of the States, Ram Chandra Prasad v. State of Bihar, AIR 1961 SC 1629: (1962) 2 SCR 50.
agency
within the scope of the agency. ac·tu·al agency : the agency that exists when an agent is in fact employed by a principal see also express agency and implied agency in this entry agency by estoppel : … truly agencies as defined in sense 2. 4 : a department or other unit of government created by legislation to administer the law in a particular area of public concern called also administrative agency see also enabling
jurisdiction
jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted a court to try a case in the first instance, make findings of fact, and render a usually appealable decision [the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions arising … created doctrines of ancillary and pendent jurisdiction. 2 : the authority (as of a state) to govern or legislate [the trade bill was within the Ways and Means committee's ] [whether a foreign state shall be subject
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