administrative law. The law governing the organization and operation of administrative agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative agencies with the legislature, the execu-tive, the judiciary, and the public. • Administrative law is divided into three parts: (1) the statutes endowing agencies with powers and establishing rules of substantive law relating […]
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Hist. A federal officer appointed for each federal land district to take charge of the local records and to administer the sale, preemption, or other disposition of public lands within the district. [Cases: Public Lands 95. C.J.S. Public Lands § 167.]
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Department of the Interior. The cabinet-level department of the federal government responsible for managing the nation’s public lands and minerals, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and western water resources, and for upholding federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes. • The Department also has responsibility for migratory-wildlife conservation; historical preservation; endangered species; surface-mined-lands preservation and restoration;
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ex causa potestatis (eks kaw-z[schwa] poh-tes-tay-tis).Roman law. Because of his position of authority. • Certain men could not marry women who were subject to their guardianship or control, and the reason was said to be ex causa potestatis. “Certain impediments to marriage in the civil law were described as being ex causa potestatis. Thus a
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Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. A unit in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development responsible for administering the fair-housing laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination in public and private housing. — Abbr. FHEO.
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judicial power. 1. The authority vested in courts and judges to hear and decide cases and to make binding judgments on them; the power to construe and apply the law when controversies arise over what has been done or not done under it. • Under federal law, this power is vested in the U.S. Supreme
health. 1. The state of being sound or whole in body, mind, or soul. 2. Freedom from pain or sickness. public health. 1. The health of the community at large. 2. The healthful or sanitary condition of the general body of people or the community en masse; esp., the methods of maintaining the health of
Drago doctrine. The principle asserted by Luis Drago, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in a December 29, 1902 letter to the Argentine Minister in Washington, in which Drago, in response to the forcible coercion of Venezuela’s unpaid loans by Great Britain and others, argued that no public debt should be collected from
office. 1. A position of duty, trust, or authority, esp. one conferred by a governmental authority for a public purpose (the office of attorney general). [Cases: Officers and Public Employees 1. C.J.S. Officers and Public Employees §§ 1–9, 12–17, 21.] 2. (often cap.) A division of the U.S. government ranking immediately below a department (the
nefastus (ni-fas-t[schwa]s), n. [Latin ne “not” + fastus “lawful for public business”] Roman law. A day when it is unlawful to open the courts, administer justice, or hold public assemblies. • The priests in charge of supervising the laws and religious observances established an official calendar, on which certain days, marked “nefasti,” were to be