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Home Dictionary Name: ministeriallyMinisterial act
Ministerial act, a ministerial act, may be defined to be one which a person performs in a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of a legal authority, without regard to, or the exercise of, his own judgment upon the propriety of the act done. In ministerial duty nothing is left to discretion; it is a simple, definite duty, Jamal Uddin Ahmed v. Abu Saleh Najmuddin, AIR 2003 SC 1917 (1924): (2003) 4 SCC 257....
ministerial
ministerial 1 : being or having the characteristics of an act or duty prescribed by law as part of the duties of an administrative office 2 : relating to or being an act done after ascertaining the existence of a specified state of facts in obedience to legal and esp. statutory mandate without exercise of personal judgment or discretion see also mandamus compare discretionary ...
Ministerially
In a ministerial manner in the character or capacity of a minister...
Head of department
Head of department, Head of Department for Financial Code and for service rules are not terms of co-extensive connotation and they have different, meaning in different context for purposes of r. 3(2) of the A.P. Ministerial Service Rules, 1961, Dy. Chief Accounts Officer would be the Head of the Department, V.S. Murty v. Deputy Chief Accounts Officer, AIR 1983 SC 403 (407): (1983) 2 SCC 115: (1983) 2 SCR 404. [Andhra Pradesh Ministerial Service Rules, 1961, R. 3(2)]Head of Department, means as defined in Bihar Service Code (The Bihar Water Resources Depart-ment Mufassil Cadre Maintenance Act, 1998)...
Judicial Act
Judicial Act, the duties of the Election Officer certainly fit in with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties, and in deciding the objections raised he hears the parties and may also make an enquiry and, therefore, he has a duty to act judicially, Bandi Visweswara Rao v. Deputy Panchayat Officer, AIR 1957 AP 539.A Judicial act seems to be an act done by a competent authority upon a consideration of facts and circumstances and imposing liability or affecting the rights of others. It must be that of a person or persons who have legal authority to determine questions affecting the rights of parties and in a judicial manner, Kalavagunta Sriramarao v. Kalavagunta Suryanarayanamurthi, AIR 1954 Mad 340.Numerous statutes give summary power to justices of the peace, and declare that certain acts shall only be valid if done by two Magistrates. If it be only a ministerial a...
Reeve
Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE.A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the reeve was an indepen-dent official, and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary detention. The reeve of the hundred became the deputy of the...
administrative
administrative 1 : of or relating to the performance of a function : ministerial [ communications include…instructions that encourage a jury to continue its deliberations "National Law Journal"] 2 : of or relating to the executive branch of a government compare legislative, judicial 3 : of or relating to a government agency [ remedies] ...
discretionary
discretionary : left to discretion : exercised at one's own discretion ;specif : relating to the 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. ...
mandamus
mandamus [Latin, we enjoin, from mandare to enjoin] : an extraordinary writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction to an inferior tribunal, a public official, an administrative agency, a corporation, or any person compelling the performance of an act usually only when there is a duty under the law to perform the act, the plaintiff has a clear right to such performance, and there is no other adequate remedy available ;also : an action in the nature of a writ of mandamus in jurisdictions where the writ is abolished compare cease-and-desist order at order, injunction, 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 act. mandamus vb ...
marshal
marshal 1 : a ministerial officer appointed for each judicial district of the U.S. to execute the process of the courts and perform various duties similar to those of a sheriff 2 : a law officer in some cities (as New York) of the U.S. who is entrusted with particular duties (as serving the process of justice of the peace courts) 3 : the administrative head of the police or esp. fire department in some cities of the U.S. also marshall vt -shaled also: -shalled -shal·ing also: -shal·ling : to fix the order of (assets) with respect to liability or availability for payment of obligations ;also : to fix the order of (as liens or remedies) with respect to priority against a debtor's assets see also marshaling ...
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