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Martial law

refers to military rule in domestic areas in which suspension of municipal law has been declared, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 338.

Minister

Minister, an agent; one who acts not by an inherent authority, but under another. In politics, one to whom a sovereign entrusts the administration of government. In Great Britain, the word ministry is used

Month

nine days. The calendar month is also nine days. The calendar month is also called usual, natural, civil, political. In an Act of Parliament (English), passed after 1850, the word 'month,' which was formerly taken to mean

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Municipal law

law, that which pertains solely to the citizens and inhabitants of a state, and is thus distinguished from political law and the law of nations

Nation

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

Jeopardy

Double is the subjection of an accused person to repeated trial for the same alleged offence, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 154. In India, no person can be prosecuted and punished for the same

Nihilism

Nihilism, means a theory that the existing economic, social, or political institutions should be destroyed, regardless of the result, because of the basic undesirability of those institutions, Black's Law

Passport

16 Geo. 5, c. 86). A 'passport' is a document which, by its nature and purpose, is a political document for the benefit of its holder. It recognises him as a citizen of the country granting it

Procedure established by law

monarch. Where an act is arbitrary, it is implicit in it that it is unequal both according to political logic and constitutional law and is therefore violative of Article 14'. Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State

Public prosecutor

health, safety, morals, general welfare, security, prosperity, and contentment of all the inhabitants or residents within a given political division, as, for example, a state, the sovereign powers of which are exercised to promote such public purpose

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