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Ministerial act

Matched in: Term Ministerial act

declare that certain acts shall only be valid if done by two Magistrates. If it be only a ministerial act, it is not requisite that the two Magistrates should be together at the time of doing the act;

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Award

will be void in toto; unconditional, but it may be alternative, without reservation or delegation, except as to ministerial acts, certain, mutual, possible, and consistent, without palpable mistake; when partly good and partly bad, the good part, … been transferred exclusively to the consequent judgment, Wedgw.], a document containing the determination of commissioners, under an Inclosure Act or other public statute; also an instrument embodying an arbitrator's decision on a matter submitted to him. It

Court-leet

p. 43), for he is the judge, and presides in the court wholly in a judicial character; the ministerial acts of the court,such as empanelling the jury, are executed by the bedel or bailiff, sworn to a … on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still

Delegatus non potest delegare

which he was appointed trustee as distinguished from acts and discretions done or exercised in an executive or ministerial capacity for him where delegation was justified or necessary, see Speight v. Gaunt, (1883) 9 AC 1; wide … cannot delegate his office or discretions for the exercise of which he was appointed trustee as distinguished from acts and discretions done or exercised in an executive or ministerial capacity for him where delegation was justified or

mandamus

stay NOTE: Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy and is issued usually only to command the performance of a ministerial act. It cannot be used to substitute the court's judgment for the defendant's in the performance of a discretionary

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

ratum esto [Lat.], A judicial act done in excess of authority is not binding; otherwise as to a ministerial act.

discretionary

policy-making function of a public official see also Federal Tort Claims Act in the Important Laws section compare ministerial NOTE: A public official generally has qualified immunity from lawsuits that arise from his or her discretionary acts.

Certiorari

authority; it does not lie to remove or adjudicative upon the order which is of an administrative or ministerial nature, Sadhu Singh v. Delhi Administration, (1966) 1 SCR 243: AIR 1966 SC 91 (95). Certiorari is a … upon his entering into recognizances; but to prevent abuses, by the wanton and improvident application for it, the Acts 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 33, and 16 & 17 Vict. c. 30, s. 5, provide that

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