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major federal action : a proposed federal undertaking that pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act must be the subject of an environmental impact statement if it would significantly affect the environment ...
major
major : a person who has attained majority compare minor ...
In majore summa continetur minor
In majore summa continetur minor [Lat.], in the greater sum of money is contained the less...
Ditone
The Greek major third which comprehend two major tones the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone...
Acquittal
Acquittal, The legal certification usually by jury verdict that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence. [fr. acquitter, Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting free of a person from the suspicion or guilt of an offence; also to be free from entries and molestations by a superior lord, for services issuing out of lands, Cowel. Acquittal is of two kinds--(1) Acquittal in deed, as when a person is cleared by verdict; and (2) Acquittal in law, as if two be indicted for a felony, the one as principal and the other as accessory, and the jury acquit the principal, by law the accessory is also acquitted, 2 Inst. 384.Means the legal certification, usually by jury verdict, that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.If person is acquitted and ordered to be discharged it is illegal any longer to detain him, and the duty of seeing that he is at once discharged is upon the governor of the p...
Dur
Major in the major mode as C dur that is C major...
Appropriate government
Appropriate government, means in relation to public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly--(i) by the Central Government or the Union Territory administration, the Central Government, (ii) by the State Government, the State Government [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(a)]The Appropriate Government means, in relation to fees or stamp relating to documents presented or to be presented before any officer serving under the Central Government, that Government, and in relation to any other fees or stamps, the State Government. [Court-Fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), s. 1A]Means as respects any matter--(i) enumerated in List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. (ii) relating to any State law enacted under List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (e)]Means in relation to any major port the Central Government, an...
Mayor
Mayor [according to some, anciently written meyr, fr. the British miret, to keep, or fr. the Old English maier, power, not from the Latin major, although maire is the more probable derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46Vict. c. 50), from among the aldermen or councillors, or persons qualified to be such,' on the 9th November of every year (ibid., s. 61). Ss. 15 and 61 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, have been repealed (except as London) by the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), see ss. 18-20 of that Act. He receives little salary, if any. His principal duties are to act as returning officer at municipal elections, and in certain cases at parliamentary elections, as chairman of the meetings of the council, and as a justice of the peace for the borough...
Owner consignee
Owner consignee, the expression owner includes a 'consignee' as also an 'agent for sale or custody' of such goods. Both under the Bombay Port Trust Act as well as under the Major Port Trusts Acts, the expression 'owner' includes an 'agent for the custody of such goods', Sun Export Corporation v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay, AIR 1998SC 92 (96): (1988) 1 SCC 142. [Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, s. 2(o); Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879, s. 3(5)]...
minor league
A league of professional sports teams less proficient than a major leagues Players in the minor leagues generally are paid less than those in the major leagues and their games attract less atention...
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