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National Bank. means the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development established under s. 3. [National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Act, 1981 (61 of 1981), s. 2 (e); see also Act (2 of 1934), s. 2(ccc)]A private or quasi public corporation, organised under the general law, by individual stockholders, with their own capital, by private gain and managed by officers, agents and employees of their own selection; a quasi-public institution under a sort of State Control....
League of Nations (Societe des Nations)
League of Nations (Societe des Nations), is a conventional assembly which was set up early in 1920 at the conclusion of the War of 1914-1919 (First World War), with a membership of 58 States. The Covenant, consisting of 26 Articles at the beginning of each of the Peace Treaties, is its charter, pledging these States to promote international co-operation, and achieve peace and security by accepting obligations not to go to war, and to respect treaties. Among the important principles which underlie the League are the 'collective system,' e.g., collective action to prevent aggression, as well as to assist members to carry on their common interests more effectively; the duty of reduction of armaments; equality for States, e.g., recognition of greater responsibility of large Powers, with legal equality for all, large or small; undertaking to use peaceful settlement for disputes, with recognition that any war is the responsibility of all peoples; provision of means for adapting existing righ...
Comity of Nations
Comity of Nations, the most appropriate phrase to express the true foundation and extent of the obligation of the laws of one nation within the territories of another. It is derived altogether from the voluntary consent of the latter, and is inadmissible when it is contrary to its known policy or prejudicial to its interests. In the silence of any positive rule affirming or denying or restrain-ing the operation of foreign laws, courts of justice presume the tacit adoption of them by their own government, unless repugnant to its policy or prejudicial to its interests. It is not the comity of the courts, but the comity of the nation, which is administered and ascertained in the same way, and guided by the same reasoning, by which all other principles of the municipal law are ascertained and guided, Story's Conflict of Laws, s. 38, and see Westlake's Pr. Intern. Law....
most-favored-nation clause
most-favored-nation clause : a clause in a treaty granting to a nation in certain stipulated matters the same terms as are then or may thereafter be granted to any other nation ...
comity of nations
comity of nations : the courtesy and friendship of nations marked esp. by mutual recognition of executive, legislative, and judicial acts 2 : the group of nations practicing international comity ...
National Airports Authority
National Airports Authority, means the National Airports Authority constituted under s. ** of the National Airports Authority Act, 1985 (64 of 1985) [Airports Authority of India, Act, 1994 (55 of 1994), s. 2(m)]...
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, means the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes referred to in Article 338 of the Constitution. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994) s. 2 (1) (i)]...
Nation
Nation, a people distinguished from another people, generally by their language, or government; an assembly of men of free condition, as distinguished from a family of slaves.A body politic; as society of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint affairs of their combined strength. As ordinarily used presu posses or implies independence of any other sovereign power more or less absolute, an organised government, recognised officials, a system of laws, definite boundaries and the power to enter into negations with other nations....
National authority
National authority, means the National Disaster Management Authority established under sub-s. (1) of s. 3. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...
National Biodiversity Authority
National Biodiversity Authority, means the National Biodiversity Authority established under s. 8. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(j)]...
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