Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Delegation
n. 1. The act of entrusting another with authority or empowering another to act as an agent or representative < delegation of contractual duties>. 2. A group of representatives <a large delegation from Texas>. - delegate (del-a-gayt) (for sense 1), ub. delegable (del-a-go-bal) (for sense 1), adj.
Legation
1.The act or practice of sending a diplomat to another country; a diplomatic mission. 2. A body of diplomats sent to a foreign country and headed by an envoy extraordinary or a minister plenipotentiary. 3. The official residence of a diplomatic minister in a foreign country. Cf. EMBASSY.
Relegation
n. 1. Banishment or exile, esp. a temporary one. 2. Assignment or delegation. -relegate, vb.
allegation
n. 1. the act of declaring something to be true. 2. something declared or asserted as a matter of fact, esp. in a legal pleading; a party's formal statement of a factual matter as being true or provable, without its having yet been proved. - allege, ub.
allegation of faculties.
family law. a statement of the husband's property, made by the wife to obtain alimony. see faculties.
allegations-of-the-complaint rule
see eightcorners rule.
burden of allegation
A party's duty to plead a matter for that matter to be heard in the lawsuit. - Also termed burden of pleading.
defensive allegation
Hist. Eccles. law. A defendant's pleading of the facts relied upon that require the plaintiff's response under oath. "The proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts are therefore regulated according to the practice of the civil and canon laws . . . . [T]heir ordinary course of proceeding is; first, by citation, to call the party injuring before them. Then . . . to set forth the complainant's ground of complaint. To this succeeds the defendant's answer upon oath; when, if he denies or extenuates the charge, they proceed to proofs by witnesses examined, and their depositions taken down in writing, by an officer of the court. If the defendant has any circumstances to offer in his defence, he must also propound them in what is called his defensiue allegation, to which he is entitled in his turn to the plaintiff's answer upon oath, and may from thence proceed to proofs as well as his antagonist." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 100 (1768).
delegation doctrine
Constitutional law. The principle (based on the separation-of-powers concept) limiting Congress's ability to transfer its legislative power to another governmental branch, esp. the executive branch. 0 Delegation is permitted only if Congress prescribes an intelligible principle to guide an executive agency in making policy. - Also termed nondelegation doctrine. See legislative veto under VETO.
delegation of duties
Contracts. A transaction by which a party to a contract arranges to have a third party perform the party's contractual duties.
delegation of powers
A transfer of authority by one branch of government to another branch or to an administrative agency. See DELEGATION DOCTRINE.
disjunctive allegation
a statement in a pleading or indictment that expresses something in the alternative, usu. with the conjunction "or" < a charge that the defendant murdered or caused to be murdered is a disjunctive allegation>.
material allegation
in a pleading, an assertion that is essential to the claim or defense < a material allegation in a battery case is harmful or offensive contact with a person>.
nondelegation doctrine.
See DELEGATION DOCTRINE.
primary allegation
See ALLEGATION.
secretary of legation.
An officer employed to attend a foreign mission and perform certain clerical duties.