Ministerial

Ministerial Act
(n) Ministerial Act is the execution or implementation of any statute, directions, instructions, procedures etc which one person is authorized or instructed to carryout without any arbitrary authority or personnel decision making.

Ministerial
Definition - adj
1 : being or having the characteristics of an act or duty prescribed by law as part of the duties of an administrative office ...

Ministerial offices are those which give the officer no power to judge of the matter to be done, and require him to obey the mandates of a superior. 7 Mass. 280. See 5 Wend. 170; 10 Wend. 514; 8 Verm. 512; Breese, 280.

In general, ministerial officers can appoint deputies unless the office is to be exercised by the ministerial officer in person; and where the office partakes of a judicial and ministerial character, ...

dated, no doubt, from the time when the profession of procureur (procurator, advocate or legal representative) was still free in the sense that persons rendering that service to others when so permitted by the law were not yet public and ministerial ...

=we order], in law, writ directing the performance of ministerial acts. A ministerial act is one that a person or body is obliged by law to perform under given circumstances; e.g.

This includes 'offices of profit under the Crown' (but does not include those holders of ministerial office); civil servants; police officers; members of the armed forces; judges; and members of non-Commonwealth overseas legislatures.

Caveat - A warning; a note of caution. A formal notice or warning given by an interested party to a court, judge, or ministerial officer against the performance of certain acts within his power and jurisdiction.
Caveator - One who files a caveat.

Caveat (kav-ee-aht) (1) Latin for "let him beware"; a warning or caution. (2) A formal notification by an interested party to a court, judge, or ministerial officer not to do an act till the party giving the notice has the opportunity to be ...

An officer who represents the administrative power of a State within one of its counties: an officer who executes the mandates of the courts of record within a county; the chief ministerial officer in a county.

See also: Minister, Law, Person, State, Court