Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Court of Official Principal

See COURT of ARCHES.

Court of the Official Principal

See COURT OF ARCHES.

Official

n. 1. One who holds or is invested with a public office. 2. One authorized to act for a corporation or organization, esp. in a subordinate capacity. 3. (usu. Cap.) OFFICIAL PRINCIPAL.

accredit (a-kred-it), vb. 1. To give official authorization or status to. 2. To recognize (a school) as having sufficient academic standards to qualify graduates for higher education or for profession

certificate of official character

See CERTIFI. CATE OF AUTHORITY.

official

, adj. 1. Of or relating to an office or position of trust or authority <official duties>. 2. Authorized or approved by a proper authority <a company's official policy>.

official bond.

See BOND (2).

official corruption.

See official misconduct under MISCONDUCT.

official misconduct.

A public officer's corrupt violation of assigned duties by malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance. - Also termed misconduct in office; misbehavior in office; malconduct in office; misdemeanor in office; corruption in office; official corruption.wanton misconduct. An act, or a failure to act when there is a duty to do so, in reckless disregard of another's rights, coupled with the knowledge that injury will probably result. - Also termed wanton and reckless misconduct.

official newspaper.

See NEWSPAPER.

official principal.

Eccles. law. A person appointed by an archbishop, bishop, or deacon to exercise jurisdiction in and preside over an ecclesiastical court. - Sometimes shortened to official.

official privilege

The privilege immunizing from a defamation lawsuit any statement made by one state officer to another in the course of official duty.

official privilege.

See PRIVILEGE (3).

official report

(usu. pl.) The governmentally approved set of reported cases within a given jurisdiction.

official report.

See REPORT (2).

official use

Hist. A use imposing a duty on a person holding legal title to an estate on behalf of another, such as a requirement that a feoffee to uses sell the estate and apportion the proceeds among several beneficiaries. The Statute of Uses eliminated this type of use.

official use.

See USE (4).

public official

A person elected or appointed to carry out some portion of a government's sovereign powers.