Nomination - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nominationDirect nomination
The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention and loosely to the nomination effected as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote...
Nominated authority
Nominated authority, means an officer not below the rank of Station Officer nominated by the Chief Fire Officer, and includes an officer nominated by a local authority or a railway administration as a nominated authority for the purposes of this Act. [Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986 (56 of 1986), s. 2(i)] [s. 2(i), Additional Emoluments (Compulsory Deposit) Act]...
Nomination
Nomination, is equivalent to the word 'appointments'. When used by a mayor in an instrument executed for the purpose of appointing certain persons to office, (P. Ramanatha Aiyar's Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., pp. 1310-11) see also Konkan Railway Corpn. Ltd. v. Rani Construction Pvt. Ltd., (2000) 8 SCC 151.Nomination, means (1) the action process or instance of nominating, (2) the act, process or an instrument of nominating; and act or right of designating for an officer or duty....
nominate
nominate [Latin nominatus, past participle of nominare to call by name, from nomin- nomen name] in the civil law of Louisiana : having a special or certain name compare innominate [nÄ -mə-nāt] vt -nat·ed -nat·ing 1 : to appoint or propose for appointment to an office, position, or place [if the testator has nominated an executor of the will] [the President…shall and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors "U.S. Constitution art. II"] 2 : to propose as a candidate for election to office nom·i·na·tion [nÄ -mə-nā-shən] n ...
Nominal damage
Nominal damage, 'nominal damage' is a technical phrase which means that the Court has negatived anything like real damage, but is affirming that there is an infraction of a legal right, Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. v. Vendra Venkanna Proprietor of Jai Bharathi Cement Works, AIR 1963 AP 58.Nominal damages. See DAMGES....
Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, pr'nomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum
Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, pr'nomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum. Justinian's Institutes, 1. 2, t. 20, s. 29.-(Although a testator may have mistaken the nomen, cognomen, or pr'nomen of a legatee, yet if it be certain who is the person meant, the legacy is valid.)...
sub nomine
sub nomine [Latin] : under the name of [the testator made him a trustee sub nomine “Charlie Smith”] often used in full or abbreviated form in legal citations to indicate the name under which the litigation continued [Castro v. Beecher, 522 F. Supp. 873, 877 (D. Mass. 1981), aff'd sub nom.NAACP v. Beecher, 679 F.2d 965 (1st Cir. 1982)] ...
Nominalize
To convert into a noun as a nominalized sentence a nominalized adjective or verb...
Nominatively
In the manner of a nominative as a nominative...
Having been nominated
Having been nominated, oath or affirmation cannot be taken or made by a candidate before he has been nominated as a candidate, Pashupati Nath Singh v. Harihar Prasad Singh, AIR 1968 SC 1064: (1968) 2 SCR 812 [Constitution of India, Sch III Form III]...
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