Province - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: province Page 1 of about 138 results ( seconds)Province
Province, the district over which the jurisdiction of an archbishop extends. England is divided into two provinces, Canterbury and York; the province of York comprises all north of the Humber, i.e., Yorkshire and Lancashire, etc., and Cheshire; all the rest of the island is in the province of Canterbury. A county; an outlying county gover-ned by a deputy or lieutenant. Metaphorically, the sphere of duty: as the province of the judge and the province of the jury.Province shall mean a Presidency, a Governor's Province, a Lieutenant Governor's Province or a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(45)]...
Corresponding province
Corresponding province, 'corresponding province', 'corresponding Indian State' or 'corresponding State' means in cases of doubt such Province, Indian State or State as may be determined by the President to be the corresponding Province, the corresponding Indian State or the corresponding State, as the case may be, for the particular purpose in question. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(7)]...
York, Province of
York, Province of. Its special customs were abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94....
Maritime provinces
The Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island...
Provincial Government
Provincial Government, means the governor is the executive head of a province and all executive acts are done in his name. This does not mean that governance of a province is vested solely in the governor, or that the expression 'government' and 'provincial government' have the same meaning and connotation, Province of Bombay v. Khushaldas S. Advani, AIR 1950 SC 222.Means, as respects anything done before the commencement of the Constitution, the authority or person authorized at the relevant date to administer executive government in the province in question. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(47)]...
Provincial Act
Provincial Act, shall mean an Act made by the Governor-in-Council, Lieutenant Governor-in-Council or Chief Commissioner in Council of a Province under any of the Indian Councils Acts or the Government of India Act, 1915, or an Act made by the local legislature or the Governor of a province under the Government of India Act, or an Act made by the Provincial Legislature or Governor of a Province or the Coorg Legislative Council under the Government of India Act, 1935. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(46)]...
Provincial
Of or pertaining to province constituting a province as a provincial government a provincial dialect...
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
Dean
Dean [fr. decanus, Lat.; deka, Gk., ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the other members of the capitular body, with special reference to the cure of souls. In cathedrals of the new foundation, the duties of the deans are defined by the statutes of each chapter.Considered in respect of the differences of office, deans are of six kinds:--(1) Deans of Chapters, who are either of cathedral or collegiate churches. (2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmat...
Merged territories
Merged territories, shall mean the territories which by virtue of an order made under s. 290A of the Government of India Act, 1935, were immediately before the commencement of the Constitution being administered as if they formed part of a Governor's Province or as if they were a Chief Commissioner's Province. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(33)]...
- << Prev.
- Next >>