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republic 1 : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president ;also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government 2 : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law ;also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government ...
republication
republication 1 : the act or an instance of republishing 2 : the state of being republished ...
Malagasy Republic
Former name of the Republic of Madagascar a nation in Africa occupying the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean east of Mozambique...
Republication of Wills
Republication of Wills, a second publication after cancelling or revoking.The Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26), provides in s. 22 as follows:-No will or codicil, or any part thereof, which shall be in any manner revoked, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same; and when any will or codicil which shall be partly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, shall be revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as shall have been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary be shown.Every will re-executed, or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of the Wills Act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived (s. 34).Every will re-executed, or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of the Wills Act be d...
Title Deed of our Republic
Title Deed of our Republic, Constitution of India, See Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 597 (655), para 107]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Equal pay for equal work
Equal pay for equal work, it does not mean that all the members of a cadre must receive the same pay packet irrespective of their seniority, source of recruitment, educational qualifications and various other incidents of service, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Sreenivasa Rao, (1989) 2 SCC 290.Article 39(d) of the Constitution proclaims 'equal pay for equal work for both men and women' as a Directive Principle of State Policy. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women means equal pay for equal work for everyone and as between the sexes. The Preamble to the Constitution declares the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic. Again the word 'Socialist' must mean some thing. Even if it does not mean to each according to his need it must at least mean 'equal pay for equal work'.'The principle of equal pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Pa...
president
president 1 : an official chosen to preside over a meeting or assembly 2 : an appointed governor of a subordinate political unit 3 : the chief officer of an organization (as a corporation or institution) usually entrusted with the direction and administration of its policies 4 : the presiding officer of a governmental body [the Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate "U.S. Constitution art. I"] 5 a : an elected official serving as both chief of state and chief political executive in a republic having a presidential government b : an elected official having the position of chief of state but usually only minimal political powers in a republic having a parliamentary government pres·i·den·tial [pre-zə-den-chəl] adj pres·i·den·tial·ly adv pres·i·dent·ship n ...
mainland China
The Peoples Republic of China also called Communist China in distinction from Nationalist China the government located on the island of Taiwan Both governments claim to represent the entire people of China but the Peoples republic is recognized as China by the United Nationss and most of its member states...
Contracting State
Contracting State, means (1) one of the original parties to the 1968 Convention (Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands); or (2) one of the parties acceding to that Convention under the Accession Convention (Denmark, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom), being a state in respect of which the Accession Convention has entered into force in accordance with Art. 39 of that convention, Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act, 1982, s. 51(3), 50 (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 330, p. 259.Means any State, including the United Kingdom, which is a party to the Chicago Convention, Air Navigation Order 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 1190, p. 580....
barrister
barrister [Middle English barrester, from barre bar + -ster (as in legister lawyer)] 1 : a lawyer who argues cases before a British court ;esp : one who is allowed to argue before a British high court compare solicitor NOTE: Many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and the Republic of Ireland divide the legal profession into barristers and solicitors. In Canada, every lawyer is both a barrister and a solicitor, although individual lawyers may describe themselves as one or the other. Scotland uses the term advocate to refer to lawyers allowed to argue cases in its courts. 2 : lawyer ...
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