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A numerical grade indicating the degree of perfection of the condition of a coin which is classified as uncirculated ranging from 70 for a coin in perfect condition to 60 for a coin which is uncirculated but may have a weak strike or numerous small scratches from being handled in mint bags usually used as the abbreviation MS as an MS 67 Morgan Dollar...
Master of the Mint
Master of the Mint, an officer who receives bullion for coinage, and pays for it and superintends everything belonging to the Mint. He is usually called the Warden of the Mint. It is provided by the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 Vict. c. 10), s. 14, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being shall be the Master of the Mint....
Mint
Mint [fr. moneta, Lat.; mynet, Sax., money, from mynetian, to coin], the place where money is coined. The Mint of Great Britain is situated near the Tower of London. By the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10) (repealing various Acts), the laws relating to the coinage and Mint are consolidated and amended. See COIN.Also, a place of privilege in Southwark, near the king's prison, where persons formerly sheltered themselves from justice under the pretext that it was an ancient palace of the Crown. The privilege has long been abolished....
Mint-mark
Mint-mark. The masters and workers of the Mint, in the indentures made with them, agree 'to make, of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making'; after every trial of the pyx, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the Great Seal, and to be thereupon discharged from all suits or actions; they then change the privy mark, so that the moneys from which they are not yet discharged may be distinguished from those for which they are; they use the new mark until another trial of the pyx. See (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. See PYX...
Brook mint
See Water mint...
Mint master
The master or superintendent of a mint Also used figuratively...
Mint-master
Mint-master, one who manages the coinage. See MASTEROF THEMINT....
State
State, Board of control for cricket India is not financially, functionally or administratively dominated by government nor it is under control of government. Government only exercises limited contract which is purely regulatory and not pervasive. Board is therefore not state, Zee Telefilms Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 2005 SC 2677.In Article 3 of Constitution of India as amended by the fifth Amendment Act 1955. It obviously refers to the States in the First Schedule and the 'Legislature of the State' refers to the Legislature which each State has under the Constitution, Babulal Parate v. State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3)The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority are exercised over such a body of people, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1415.The expression 'the State' has the same meaning in Part IV of the Constitution under Article 36. No reason was s...
Act of State
Act of State, means not all governmental acts as it does in the French and Continental Systems but only some of them. The term is next used to designate immunities and prohibitions sometimes created by statutes. The term is also extended to include certain prerogatives and special immunities enjoyed by the sovereign and its agents in the business of internal government. the term is even used to indicate all acts into which, by reason that they are official in character, the Courts may not inquire, or in respect of which an official declaration, is bindings on the Courts, State of Saurashrtra v. Meman Haj Ismail, AIR 1959 SC 1383 (1387): (1960) 1 SCR 537.Means acts done against aliens in exercise of sovereign power of the State. The Municipal Courts debarred from entering into the validity of the Act of State, Secretary of State for India in Council v. Kamachee Boyee Sabha, 7 MIA 476. See also Jahangir v. Secretary of State for India, 6 Bom LR 131; Virendra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 19...
Inter-State Council
Inter-State Council, in Australia an inter-State Commission is established for the execution and maintenance within the Commonwealth of the provisions of the Australian Constitution relating to trade and commerce; in U.S.A. the Council of State Governments is created to consider inter-State problems of broadest character, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. K, p. 200.Inter-State Council, in India, the Inter-State Council is established by the President by an Order in the public interest the President defines the nature of duties to be performed by it and its organisation and procedure; the duties of the Council are:(a) to inquire into and advise upon disputes which may have arises between States;(b) to investigate and discuss subject of common interest between the Union and the States or between two or more States;(c) to make recommendation upon any such subject particularly for better co-ordination of policy and action with respect to that subject, ...
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