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Official trustee

Official trustee, the official trustee mentioned in s. 6, Married Women's Property Act is not the legal person referred to in the Official Trustees Act of 1913, which is a corporation sole, Smt. Haridasi Debi v. Manufacturers Life Assurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1937 Cal 379: 107 IC 912....


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 ...


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)]...


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)]...


Officially

By the proper officer by virtue of the proper authority in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office as accounts or reports officially verified or rendered letters officially communicated persons officially notified...


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)]...


Official

Official, according to the dictionary, means pertain-ing to an office, S.K. Zutshi v. Bimal Debnath, (2004) 8 SCC 31 (38); See also State of Orissa v. Ganesh Chandra Jew, (2004) 8 SCC 40. (Criminal PC, 1973, s. 197)Official, formal; authorised.In the Civil Law, he is a minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law, he is the person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction; there is one in every diocese, called officialis principalis, i.e., chancellor; the rest,if there are more, are officiales foranei, i.e., commissaries. in our statute she is the person whom the archdeacon appoints as his substitute. Wood's Inst. 30, 505...


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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