Definition of Administrative law

1. Noun. The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government.

Generic synonyms: Jurisprudence, Law
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Definition of Administrative law

1. Noun. (legal) All the laws that pertain to the administrative agencies of government. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Administrative Law

administrants
administrate
administrated
administrates
administrating
administration
administrational
administrations
administrative
administrative body
administrative data processing
administrative district
administrative division
administrative hearing
administrative kingship
administrative law (current term)
administrative leave
administrative official
administrative personnel
administrative unit
administratively
administrativia
administratixes
administrator
administrators
administratorship
administratorships
administratour
administratours
administratrices

Literary usage of Administrative law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"administrative law determines the ends and modes to and in which the sovereign ... The two departments, therefore, of constitutional and administrative law, ..."

2. Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by Albert Venn Dicey (1908)
"Our aim should be to seize the general nature of administrative law and the principles on which the whole system of droit administratif depends, ..."

3. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"Comparative administrative law. An analysis of the administrative systems ... By Frank J. Goodnow, Professor of administrative law in the University Faculty ..."

4. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1915)
"... defense of the country; the labor question; relief of the poor; business law; practical work in administrative law; municipal finance and constitutional ..."

5. The Governments of France, Italy, and Germany by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1914)
"2 Unlike the civil law, the administrative law has never been codified, and indeed it ... administrative law, vol. ii. pp. 220-21, 231) remarks that the ..."

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