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Caeligsarism

A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person to whom as Caeligsar or emperor it has been committed by the

Congregationalism

That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church

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system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of

jurisdiction

from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed … situs International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their

State

through which its policies are implemented and sovereignty having authority to make final legal decisions and having physical power to enforce them, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 498. State, is the power or authority … State of Bombay, AIR 1960 SC 51: (1960) 1 SCR 605. (Constitution of India, Art. 3) The political system of a body of people who are politically organized; the system of rules by which jurisdiction and authority

Stand alone system

Matched in: Term Stand alone system

Supreme Court of Judicature

in 'third parties,' were introduced; new rules of pleading, intending to combine the brevity of the Common Law system with the specific character of equity drafting, were substituted for those previously existing; special power was given under … juris-diction to hear, with a few specified exceptions, appeals from any judgment or order of the High Court; power was given to each division to administer law and equity concurrently, with preference for the rules of equity,

Search and seizure

seizure' is only temporary interference with the right to hold the property 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

Manor

an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of power and consequence) in consideration of certain services to be performed. The tenementales were granted out; the dominicales (whence … Where there were several free tenants holding under the same lord, the lord, as an incident of this system of tenure, had rights of civil jurisdiction over them; and by special grant from the Crown or by

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