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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]....
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 ...
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 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....
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 ...
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....
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 ...
War Department
War Department, a department for which the sovereign issues orders to his forces. This department was formerly united with the Colonial Office under an official called the 'Secretary at War,' who was not a Secretary of State; but an additional Secretary of State was appointed, for affairs of war solely, in the year 1854. [See the (English) War Office Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 17)]By the (English) Army (Annual) Act (9 Edw. 7, c. 3), certain powers formerly exercisable by the Secretary of State, and all powers of the Commander-in-Chief and the Adjutant-General under the Army Act, were transferred to the Army Council. See ARMY COUNCIL....
Scotland and Ireland
Scotland and Ireland. As to service of writ, by leave of judge, upon a defendant resident in Scotland or Ireland, see (English) R.S.C. Ord. XI., rr. 1 (e), 2 and 2A; Williams v. Cartwright, (1895) 1 QB 142. Process for compelling the attendance of witnesses from Scotland or Ireland before English Courts and vice versa may be issued under 17 & 18 Vict. c. 34. Appeals from courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland are heard by the House of Lords under s. 3 of the App. Jur. Act, 1876: see also Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922 (Session 2), Sch. I., 6 (3); but appeals from the Supreme Court of the Irish Free State are to the Privy Council. [see Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922 (Session 2), Sch. I., Art. 66]The removal of Scottish and Irish poor from England to Scotland or Ireland is regulated by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 117, 10 & 11 Vict. c. 33 (Scotland); 24 & 25 Vict. c. 76 (Ireland); 25 & 26 Vict. c. 113, and 26 & 27 Vict. c. 89 (Ireland); but irremovability to Ireland is...
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