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Military Law, as distinguished from civil law, is the law relating to and administered by military courts, and is concerned with the trial and punishment of offences committed by officers, soldiers and other persons (e.g., sutlers and camp followers) who are from circumstances subjected for the time being to the same law as soldiers. But the term 'military law' is frequently used in a wider sense and as including not only the disciplinary but also the administrative law of the Army, as, for instance, the law of enlistment and billeting, Manual of Military Law, p. 6. Consult Clode's Military Forces of the Crown....
military government
military government : the government established by a military commander in conquered territory to administer the military law declared under military authority applicable to all persons in the conquered territory and superseding any incompatible local law ...
uniform code of military justice
uniform code of military justice The body of law that governs military persons in their conduct as military personnel. Source: FindLaw ...
Military feuds
Military feuds, the genuine or original feuds which were in the hands of military men, who performed military duty for their tenures. See TENURE....
Military stores
Military stores, The expression 'military stores' used in Schedule II is comprehensive enough to cover articles essential for military use inclusive of trailers/water tankers supplies of which are accumulated in the depot for being drawn upon whenever needed, Cantonment Board v. Mahindra Owen Ltd., AIR 1986 SC 1114 (1117): (1986) Supp SCC 301....
military commission
military commission : a military court organized in time of war or suspension of the civil power to try offenses by persons (as civilians) not subject to trial by a court-martial ...
military law
military law : law enforced by military rather than civil authority ;specif : law prescribed by statute for the government of the armed forces and accompanying civilian employees compare martial law ...
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
Man'uvres, Military
Man'uvres, Military. See MILITARY MAN'UVRES...
Military aircraft
Military aircraft, means an aircraft of the naval, military, air force or any other armed forces of any country and includes every aircraft commanded for the time being by a person in such force detailed for the purpose. [Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982 (66 of 1982), s. 2(1)(d)]...
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