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checks and balances

checks and balances : the powers (as judicial review, the presidential veto, and the congressional override) conferred on each of the three branches of government by which each restrains the others from exerting too

Decree

of the Nizam and they were binding in the same way as any other law; nay, they would override all other laws which were in conflict with them. A Firaman issued by the Nizam is 'decree' and

Search and seizure

searched and the articles seized. A power of search and seizure is in any system of jurisprudence an overriding power of the State for the protection of social security and that power is necessarily regulated by law,

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interpretation. This is a basic rule relying upon the ordinary dictionary meaning which, in the absence of some overriding or special reasons to justify a departure, must prevail, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Officer-in-Charge, AIR 1977 SC

Successor-in-interest

of all the relevant factors and it cannot be reached by treating any one of them as of overriding or conclusive significance, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Their Workmen, AIR 1975 SC 1639: (1975) 4

Subject thereto

of the positive part of s. 58(3) cannot attribute to the previous operation of the repealed statute an overriding effect so as to deprive the authorities constituted under the repealing Act of their power to entertain appeals

royalty

share of the profit or product reserved by the grantor esp. of an oil or mineral lease compare overriding royalty b : a payment made to an author or composer for each copy of a work sold

Notwithstanding anything contained in law for the time in force

points to the conclusions that the provisions of s. 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act would have overriding effect and shall prevail if the other conditions prescribed are fulfilled, Isher Das v. State of Punjab, AIR

Non-obstante

a dispensation be allowed in such statute. A non-obstante clause is a legislative device usually employed to give overriding effect to certain provisions over some contrary provisions that may be found either in the same enactment or

Court

strict sense of the term they have to discharge quasi-judicial functions and as such are subject to the overriding jurisdiction of this court under Art. 136 of the Constitution. Their powers are derived from the statute that

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