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sovereign also sov·ran [-vrən] n : a person or political entity (as a nation or state) possessing or held to possess sovereignty [a controversy between two s…the United States on the one hand and the State of California on the other "U.S. Code"] see also sovereign immunity at immunity also sovran adj 1 : possessed of supreme power [a ruler] 2 : enjoying autonomy [ states] 3 : relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a sovereign ...
sovereign acts doctrine
sovereign acts doctrine : a doctrine granting the United States immunity from contractual obligations for acts performed in its sovereign capacity ...
Sovereign
Sovereign, a chief or supreme person. See Chit.Stat., tit. 'Crown,' and KING. Also, a gold coin of the value of twenty shillings; see Coinage Act, 1870.1. A person, body, or state vested with independent and Supreme authority 2. Ruler of an independent state, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1401.The term sovereign means a political superior who is not subject to any other political superior, AIR 1953 Pat 1(4)....
Sovereign power
Sovereign power, in all Governments of constitutional limitations 'sovereign power' manifests itself in but three ways. By exercising the right of taxation; by the right of eminent domain; and through its police power, Boggs v. Meree Min Co., 14 Cal 279....
sovereign immunity
sovereign immunity see immunity ...
Sovereign power, or Sovereignty
Sovereign power, or Sovereignty, that power in a state to which none other is superior...
Sovereign powers
Sovereign powers, of a Government include all the powers necessary to accomplish its legitimate ends and purposes. Such powers must exist in all practical Governments. (Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Volume 39A) See also Agricultural Produce Market Committee v. Ashok Harikuni, (2000) 8 SCC 61....
Sovereignty
Sovereignty, means 'supremacy in respect of power, dominion or rank; supreme dominion authority or rule. Sovereignty is the right to govern. The term sovereignty as applied to states implies 'Supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power by which any state is governed, and which resides within itself, whether residing in a single individual or a number of individuals, or in the whole body of the people. Sovereignty according to its normal legal connotation is the supreme power which govern the body politic, or society which constitutes the state and the power is independent of the particular form of government whether monarchial, autocratic or democratic, Govindrao v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 1201.Means the Supreme, absolute and uncontrollable power by which any independent state 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 politi...
Privy
Privy [fr. priv', Fr.], having a participation in some Act, so as to be bound thereby, see the word in this sense in the statutory implied covenant in Part vi. Of the Second Sch. Of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and Woodhouse v. Jenkins, (1832) 9 Bing 441. Also a participation in interest or knowledge. See PRIVIES. Also sanitary accommodation. The Public Health Acts (see PUBLIC HEALTH) aim at securing proper sanitary accommodation for every house. See Tracey v. Pretty, (1901) 1 KB 444.Privy CouncilThe sovereign nominates privy councillors, and no patent or grant is necessary. The number of the Council is indefinite, and is dependent upon the royal will. It is summoned on a warning of forty-four hours, and never held without the presence of a Secretary of State; the junior delivers his opinion first, and the sovereign, if present, last; it is dissolved six months after the demise of the Crown, unless sooner determined by the successor.Privy councillors, on taking the necessary oaths, b...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
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