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Home Dictionary Name: sec 1 Page: 2Weaker sections
Weaker sections, 'weaker sections', in this context, means not every 'backward class' but those dismally depressed categories comparable economically and educationally to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribes, State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas, AIR 1976 SC 490: (1976) 2 SCC 310: (1976) 1 SCR 906. (Constitution of India, Art. 46)...
section 213a
section 213a A section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) which establishes that sponsors have a legal duty to support immigrants they want to bring (sponsor) to the United States. They must complete Form I-864 Affidavit of Support. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Appearance sec. stat
Appearance sec. stat. (i.e., Secundum statutum), which was entered at law by a plaintiff for a defaulting defendant under 12 Geo. 1, c. 29, and 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 76, s. 26....
Authority
Authority, means the Coastal Aquaculture Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 4. [Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act, 2005 (24 of 2005), s. 2(a)]Means the right or permission to act legally on another's behalf; the power delegated by a principal to an agent e.g. authority to sign the contract, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 127.Means a right; an official or judicial command; also a legal power to do an act given by one man to another. Consult Vin. Abr., tit. 'Authority,' and Sugden on Powers, and see WARRANTY.Dictionary meaning of the word 'authority' is clearly wide enough to include all bodies created by a statute on which powers are conferred to carry out governmental or quasi-governmental functions, Som Prakash Rekki v. Union of India, (1981) 1 SCC 449, AIR 1981 SC 212 (229). (Constitution of India Art. 12)The meaning of the word 'authority' given in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which can be applicable is 'a public administrative agency or corp...
State Public Information Officer
State Public Information Officer, means the State Public Information Officer designated under sub-section (1) and includes a State Assistant Public Information Officer designated as such under sub-section (2) of section 5. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(m)]...
sherman act
sherman act A federal law that prohibits any unreasonable interference with the ordinary, usual and freely competitive pricing or distribution system of the open market in interstate trade. (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1-7) Source: FindLaw ...
Letters of safe-conduct
Letters of safe-conduct. No subject of a nation at war with us can, by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless he has letters of safe-conduct, which, by drivers old statutes, must be granted under the Great Seal, and enrolled in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit. 416. But passports or licences from our ambassadors abroad are now more usually obtained, and are allowed to be of equal validity; see ALIEN ENEMY.Where the court has made an order for attachment or forfeiture of any property under sub-sec. (1), and such property is suspected to be in a contracting State, the court may issue a letter of request to a court or an authority in the contracting State for ...
Additional duties
Additional duties, means the duties of excise levied and collected under sub-section (1) of section 3. [Additional duties of Excise (Goods of Special Importance) Act, (58 of 1957), s. 2....
Programme officer
Programme officer, means an officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 15 for implementing the scheme. [The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, s. 2(m)]...
Protection officer
Protection officer, means an officer appointed by the State Government under sub-section (1) of section 8. [Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(n)]...
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