Secretarial

Secretaries of State

Secretaries of State. There are eight principal Secretaries of State, one for the Home Department, another for Foreign Affairs, a third for the Colonies, a fourth for War (26 & 27 Vict. c. 12), a fifth for India (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106), a sixth for, AIR (7 & 8 Geo. c. 5, 51, s. 8), a seventh for the Dominion affairs (1925), and, eight, for Scotland, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 18). The Secretaries of State have co-extensive authority, that is to say, any one of them can legally execute the duties of all, although separate spheres of action are for convenience assigned to them. They have under their management the most considerable affairs of the nation, and are obliged to attend on the sovereign when required.Formerly the administration of colonial and military affairs was combined and the duty discharged by a 'Secretary-at-War,' who was not a Secretary of State...

Secretary

Secretary, means an official-in-charge of a Department of Government, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1317.Secretary, one entrusted with the management of business; one who writes for another; the head of a Government department; an officer of a company, or club, etc.Secretary of a Registered Company, is an officer of the company [McKay's case, (1876) 2 Ch D 1], and as such liable for misfeasance under s. 276 (ibid.). He is entitled to preferential payment on account of salary in a winding-up [S. 264; Cairney v. Back, (1906) 2 KB 746]....

Of or pertaining to a secretary befitting a secretary...

Company Secretary

Company Secretary, means a person who is a member of the institute [Company Secretaries Act, 1980 (56 of 1980), s. 2(1)(c)]...

secretary

secretary pl: -tar·ies often cap 1 : an officer of a business concern who may keep records of directors' and stockholders' meetings and of stock ownership and transfer and help supervise the company's interests 2 : a government officer who superintends an administrative department ...

secretary of state's office

secretary of state's office In most states, the official office responsible for many types of formal state business, such as licensing of corporations and filing of UCC security agreements. Source: FindLaw ...

Secretary of the Senate

Secretary of the Senate :an officer of the Senate chiefly responsible for administration and operation ...

Parliamentary secretaries

Parliamentary secretaries, are the persons selected to assist the ministers in their parliamentary work, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 544....

Secretary of degrees and injunctions

Secretary of degrees and injunctions, an officer of Chancery. The office was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, s. 23....

Alien

Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...

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