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National Airports Authority
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National authority
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National Biodiversity Authority
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Alien
natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many … a British subject unless within one year after he attains the age of twenty-one (or some other age authorized by regulation) he asserts his British nationality by a declaration of retention registered in accordance with regulations made
International Law
International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the slow growth of modern … the laws of one country can have no intrinsic force, proprio vigore, except within the territorial limits and jurisdiction of that country. They can bind only its own subjects and others who are within its jurisdictional limits;
jurisdiction
of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State … state) of that court. primary jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted by a judicially created doctrine to an administrative agency to decide certain controversies initially before relief is sought in the courts compare exhaustion of remedies quasi in
Competent authority
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Extradition
should not go unpunished and on that account it is recognised as a part of the comity of nations that one State should ordinarily afford to another State assistance towards bringing offenders to justice, Rosiline George v. … having jurisdiction over the crime charged, the return of a fugitive from justice; regardless of consent, by the authorities where the fugitive resides, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 607. Extradition, is turning over of an alleged
National Executive Committee
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public law
enactment of a legislature that affects the public at large throughout the entire territory (as a state or nation) which is subject to the jurisdiction of the legislature or within a particular subdivision of its jurisdiction : … the public at large throughout the entire territory (as a state or nation) which is subject to the jurisdiction of the legislature or within a particular subdivision of its jurisdiction : general law called also public act
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