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Ministerial act

ministerial act a ministerial act may be defined to be one which a person … exercise of his own judgment upon the propriety of the act done in ministerial duty nothing is left to discretion it


Judicial Act

if done by two magistrates if it be only a ministerial act it is not requisite that the two magistrates should … judicial act the duties of the election officer certainly fit in with


ministerial

ministerial 1 being or having the characteristics of an act or … of an administrative office 2 relating to or being an act done after ascertaining the existence of a specified state of


Award

may be alternative without reservation or delegation except as to ministerial acts certain mutual possible and consistent without palpable mistake when … be alternative without reservation or delegation except as to ministerial acts certain mutual possible and consistent without palpable mistake when partly


Court-leet

presides in the court wholly in a judicial character the ministerial acts of the court such as empanelling the jury are … an established custom for it all fines are recoverable by action of debt or by distress a fine is imposed by


mandamus

is issued usually only to command the performance of a ministerial act it cannot be used to substitute the court s … and there is no other adequate remedy available also an action in the nature of a writ of mandamus in jurisdictions


Actus Judiciarius coram non judice irritus habetur, de ministeriali autem a quocunque provenit ratum esto

excess of authority is not binding otherwise as to a ministerial act … of authority is not binding otherwise as to a ministerial act


Ministerially

in a ministerial manner in the character or capacity of a minister


Act of Parliament

and see incorporation by reference as to the important interpretation act 1889 see that title statutes are variously cited many of


Consolidation Acts (English)

act 1861 now largely repealed and replaced by the larceny act 1916 and other criminal law consolidation acts of 1861 the


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