Search results for: “delegated jurisdiction”

  • Administrative Law

    Administrative Law in the law of the United States Administrative Law: Related U.S. Resources Administrative Law in the American Law Encyclopedia Judicial Function Keywords in the U.S. Legal Corpus Judicial Function Topics in the United States Legal Dictionary See Also Constitutional Law […]

  • Government

    Government

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Government Meaning of Government The governing body of a community , a state , United States , territory, district , municipality , a commonwealth . See 11 U.S.C. §101(21). <div […]

  • Judicial Review

    Judicial Review

    Generally, the phrase denotes the power of Superior Courts to review the decisions and proceedings of inferior courts. However, the phrase has now specifically come to denote that jurisdiction of the superior courts whereby it issues the prerogative writs of Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari […]

  • Guardianship

    Guardianship

    The power of protective authority given by law, and imposed on an individual who is free and in the enjoyment of his rights, over one whose weakness on account of his age or infirmity renders him unable to protect himself. …

  • Competence of the Institution

    Hierarchical Display of Competence of the institution Politics > Politics and public safety > Institutional activityPolitics > Executive power and public service > Executive body > Executive competencePolitics > Political framework > Political powerPolitics > Parliament > Powers of […]

  • Guardian Ad Litem

    A guardian appointed for the purposes of a suit. The appointment of such is incident to the power of every court to try a ease (2 Cow. [N. Y.] 430), and the power is then confined to the particular case at bar (Co. Litt. 89, note 16). His duty is to manage the interest of…

  • Guardian Ad Litem

    A guardian appointed for the purposes of a suit. The appointment of such is incident to the power of every court to try a ease (2 Cow. [N. Y.] 430), and the power is then confined to the particular case at bar (Co. Litt. 89, note 16). His duty is to manage the interest of…

  • Power

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Power Meaning of Power The right , ability, capacity or legal authority to do some act which a person cannot do without the power. Ability of a person to produce change in legal relation by doing or not […]

  • Power

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Power Meaning of Power The right , ability, capacity or legal authority to do some act which a person cannot do without the power. Ability of a person to produce change in legal relation by doing or not […]

  • Civil Court

    See alsoA body in the government delegated to administer justice in connection with… (Read more)…

  • Commissary

    One who is delegated by his superior to execute some office or duty. In military matters, an officer who has the charge of furnishing provisions, clothing, etc., for money . In ecclesiastical law , an officer who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in distant parts of the diocese .