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Self government

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home rule

home rule : self-government or limited autonomy in internal affairs by a dependent political unit (as a territory or municipality) ;also :

Self discipline

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Municipality

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

corporation

(as by a charter) by a superior governing authority (as a state) and endowed with powers of local self-government (as eminent domain) ;broadly : a public corporation (as a utility) created to act as an agency of

Sovereignty

is governed; supreme political authority paramount control of the constitution and frame of government and its administration; the self-sufficient source of political power from which all specific political powers are derived; the inter-national independence of a State

Public authority

Shivanna Waik v. Bangalore University, AIR 2006 NOC 145 (Karn). Means any authority or body or institution of self-government established or the constituted-- (a) by or under the Constitution; (b) by any other law made by Parliament;

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

Wilful

SCC 282. Means 'governed by Will without yielding to reason or without regard to reason; obstinately or perversely self-willed, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, p. 2617; see also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282. … Volume III of Webster's Third New International Dictionary at page 2617, the word 'wilful' has been defined thus: governed by will without yielding to reason or without regard to reason; obstinately or perversely self-willed, S. Sundaram Pillai

Alien

s. 9 provides that the provisions of the Act as to naturalization shall not have effect within the Self-Governing Dominions unless the Government of the Dominion adopts them. The third part of the Act deals with the

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