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Official receivers

Official receivers, officers appointed by the Board of Trade under s. 66 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, to act as interim receivers and managers of bankrupts' estates, pending the appointment of trustees in bankruptcy: see now Bankruptcy Act, 1914, ss. 70 et seq. The report of an official receiver is absolutely privileged, Bottomley v. Brougham, (1908) 1 KB 584; Burr v. Smith, (1909) 2 KB 306. As to the official receiver becoming provisional liquidator on the making of a winding-uporder, see Companies Act, 1929, s. 185, and LIQUIDATOR...

Official Gazette

Official Gazette, the words 'Official Gazette' refers to the Official Gazette of the State, AIR 1977 All 251 (255). [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 68D(1) and (3)]...

Official act

Official act, the expression 'Official act' means an act by a person while acting or purporting to act in discharge of his official duties, AIR 1967 Punj 51 (52). [Criminal PC, 1898, s. 197(1)]...

Current official scale of rates

Current official scale of rates, the expression 'current' means 'vogue' or 'prevalent'; and 'current rate' may mean the rate obtaining at a particular time or at a future time or from time to time. The terms goes well with the present, future and recurrent, the words 'current official' scale of rates' in para IV of the agreement mean the official scale of rates current or prevalent from time to time during the currency of the agreement, Gopisetti Venkatratmam v. Vijayawada Municipality, AIR 1966 SC 353 (354, 355): (1965) 3 SCR 276. [Electricity Act, (9 of 1910), s. 21(2)]...

Official solicitor

Official solicitor. The duties of this officer at the present time are nowhere very clearly defined: see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 129, replacing (English) Official Solicitor Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 30). A petition or summons respecting any dealing with a dormant fund, i.e., a fund in Court which has not been dealt with for fifteen years, must be served on the Official Solicitor: (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXII., Rule 11; and he has placed upon him by the (English) Court of Chancery Act, 1860 (20 & 23 Vict. c. 149), s. 2, the duty of visiting prisoners committed for contempt, and he may be assigned as solicitor to pauper litigants, and acts as guardian ad litem to persons under a disability. Subject to an order to the contrary, under Ord. LXIII., Rule 13, his costs are taxed as between party and party, Eady v. Elsdon, (1901) 2 KB 460....

foreign government official

foreign government official As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming temporarily to the United States who has been accredited by a foreign government to function as an ambassador, public minister, career diplomatic or consular officer, other accredited official, or an attendant, servant or personal employee of an accredited official, and all above aliens' spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

In the Official Gazette

In the Official Gazette, the expression 'in the Official Gazette' and the publication required therein, does not undergo a change in its semantics when the route concerned is an inter-State as against an intra-State one, Bharatpur Motor Workers Co-operative Society Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 40 (43): (1974) 2 SCC 702: (1975) 2 SCR 37....

Officiating and temporary

Officiating and temporary, the word 'officiating' is generally used when a servant having held one post permanently or substantively is appointed to a post in a higher rank, but not permanently or sub-stantively. The word 'temporary' usually denotes a person appointed in the civil service for the first time and the appointment is not permanent but temporary, Arun Kumar Chatterjee v. South Eastern Railway, AIR 1985 SC 482 (485). (Railway Estb. Manual, R. 312)...

Officiality

Officiality, the court or jurisdiction of which an official is head....

Official residence

Official residence, the expression official residence includes the gardens of the Raj Bhawan, AIR 1956 Pat 398 (403). [Government of India (Governor's Allowances and Privileges) Order 1950, Cl. 3(a)...

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