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Election Commission
Proclamation to issue writes of holding of fresh elections throughout the country. These writs are addressed to the Returning Officers in each Constituency, who is responsible for the conduct of election in that Constituency, Office of the … to issue writes of holding of fresh elections throughout the country. These writs are addressed to the Returning Officers in each Constituency, who is responsible for the conduct of election in that Constituency, Office of the speaker
Sign
and the requirements of law are complied with, provided he puts the mark in the presence of the Returning Officer or the Presiding Officer or such other officer as may be specified in that behalf by the Election
War Office
30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman or, in some cases, a councillor, not the mayor, is returning officer (s. 28). As to district councils, see ss. 36 and 37. Parishes may be divided into wards by
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Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
of clerk of the hanaper (see HANAPER) and receives ballot papers, etc., after a parliamentary election from the returning officers under Rule 38 of Schedule I. of (English) the Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. … See (English) Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1881 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 81), s. 8, by which this officer performs the duties of clerk of the hanaper (see HANAPER) and receives ballot papers, etc., after a parliamentary
Challenge to the array
Challenge to the array, is the taking of exception to the whole panel of persons returned by the summoning officer by reason of matter personal to himself, and is either a principal challenge (on
Regular assessment
is manifest that an initial assessment made by the Assessing Officer either on the assessee voluntarily furnishing a return of the income or furnishing such a return on being served a notice under s. 148, is a
Quo warranto
cases where an election is sought to be questioned on the ground of bribery, etc., disqualification, or undue return. By s. 84 of the Act of 1933, proceedings must be instituted within six months. See also Crown … in the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty to inquire 'by what authority' he supports his claim, in order to determine the right.
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county. The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet … office within a mile of the Inner Temple Hall, for the receipt of writs, granting warrants thereon, making returns thereto, and accepting all rules and orders made as to the execution of any process or writ addressed
Hanaper-office
the Court of Chancery, so called because all writs relating to the business of a subject, and their returns, were formerly kept in a hamper, in hanaperio, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103. See now CENTRAL OFFICE. … Hanaper-office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, so called because all writs relating to
Certiorari
addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them, to the end that justice maybe done. Certiorari lies to … the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them,
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