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Sovereign power, or Sovereignty

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Dominion

Sovereign or supreme authority the power of governing and controlling independent right of possession use and control sovereignty supremacy

Magistery

Mastery powerful medical influence renowned efficacy a sovereign remedy … Mastery powerful medical influence renowned efficacy a sovereign remedy

Sovereignty

Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1252. The term 'sovereignty' is difficult to define. It is the exercise of sovereign power which gives the States sufficient authority to enact any law subject to limitations of the Constitution to discharge … limitations of the Constitution to discharge its functions. The Indian State, between the Centre and the States, has sovereign power. The sovereign power is plenary and inherent in every sovereign State to do all things which promote the

Act of State

Ismail, AIR 1959 SC 1383 (1387): (1960) 1 SCR 537. Means acts done against aliens in exercise of sovereign power of the State. The Municipal Courts debarred from entering into the validity of the Act of State, Secretary … or cession, Dalmia Dadri Cement Co. Ltd. v. CIT, AIR 1958 SC 816 (822). The Act of the sovereign power of a country or its agent (if acting intra vires). By its very nature such an act cannot

Crown

Crown [fr. Couronne, Fr.; corona, Lat.], an ornamental badge of regal power worn on the head by sovereign princes. The word is frequently used when speaking of the sovereign himself, or the rights, duties, and prerogatives

Ruling Chief

3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1867 is: 'One who, or that which, exercise rule, especially of supreme or sovereign kind.' Normally the expression 'Ruling Chief' connotes 'a person who is endowed with the content of sovereignty and … now 7th Edn. P. 1402) the legal conception of 'sovereignty' is stated thus: The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; paramount control of the constitution and frame of

University

difficult. The essential feature of a university seems to be that it was incorporated as such by the sovereign power, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 15. Means University defined under cl. (f) of s. 2 of

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