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The act of governing ones self or the state of being governed by ones self self control self command...
Municipality
Municipality, means the Nagar Panchayat or the Municipal Council, as the case may be, constituted under the provisions of this Act. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(34)]--means the New Delhi Municipal Committee, the Cantonment Board or any other municipal body, other than the Corporation, established by or under any law for the time being in force in or any part of Delhi. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(i)]--the word 'Municipality' has been defined in Webster's New Dictionary as, 'a town, city or borough which has local self-government'. A Corporation or a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat is constituted on strength of population and the area of place where it is constituted namely rural or urban. But all the three are deemed to be municipality. A Municipal Corporation with a larger area is as much a municipality as a council with smaller area, Cantonment Board v. G. Venkataram Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 1210. [Constitution of India , Art. 243]Municipality, sh...
corporation
corporation [Late Latin corporatio, from Latin corporare to form into a body, from corpor- corpus body] : an invisible, intangible, artificial creation of the law existing as a voluntary chartered association of individuals that has most of the rights and duties of natural persons but with perpetual existence and limited liability see also pierce compare association, partnership, sole proprietorship close corporation [klōs-] : a corporation whose shares are held by a small number of individuals (as management) and not publicly traded ;specif : small business corporation in this entry called also closely held corporation compare public corporation in this entry foreign corporation : a corporation organized under the laws of a state or government other than that in which it is doing business government corporation : public corporation in this entry moneyed corporation : a corporation (as a bank) authorized to engage in the investment, exchange, or lending of moneyed capit...
Public authority
Public authority, in the policy statement is not a term of art. It must be construed in a purpose way, taking particular account of the context, McFarland HL(NI) (in re:), (2004) 1 WLR 1289.Is a body, not necessarily a country council, municipal corporation or other local authority, which has public or statutory duties to perform and which perform those duties and carries out its transactions for the benefit of the public and not for private profit, Halsbury's Laws of England, 3rd Edn., Vol. 30, p. 682.Means any authority or body established or con-stituted,--(i) by or under the Constitution;(ii) by any law made by the appropriate Government,and includes any other body owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the appropriate Government. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(f)]Public Authority--Karnataka University being an authority under Article 12 of the constitution is covered by the definition of public authority, Shivan...
autonomy
autonomy : the quality or state of being self-governing ;esp : the right of self-government au·ton·o·mous [-məs] adj au·ton·o·mous·ly adv ...
home rule
home rule : self-government or limited autonomy in internal affairs by a dependent political unit (as a territory or municipality) ;also : the political theory or principle of self-government ...
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 ...
Public authorities
Public authorities, means any authority or body or institution of self-government established or constituted (a) by or under the constitution (b) by any other law made by parliament, (c) by any other law made by State legislature (d) by notification issued or order made by the appropriate government and includes any-(i) body owned, cancelled or substantially financed (ii) non-government organisation substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the appropriate government. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(h)]...
municipal
municipal 1 : of or relating to the internal affairs of a major political unit (as a nation) [was sentenced by a court of , not international, jurisdiction] compare domestic 2 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of a municipality [the counsel] b : having local self-government [a district] 3 : restricted to one locality n : a security issued by a state or local government or by an authority set up by such a government usually used in pl. see also municipal bond at bond ...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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