EXECUTIVE

As distinguished from the G legislative and judicial departments of gov• ernment, the executive department is that which is charged with the detail of carrying the la.ws into effect and,securing their due observance. The word "executive" is also, H used as an impersonal designation of the chief executive officer of a state or nation. Comm. v. Hall, 9 Gray (Ma .) 267, 69 Am. Dec. 285; In re Railroad Com'rs, 15 Neb. 679, 50 N. W. 276; In re Davies, 168 N. Y. 89, 61 N. El 118, 56 L. R. A. 855; State v. Denny, I 118 Ind. 382, 21 N. E. 252, 4 L. R. A. 79. -Executive administration, or ministry. A political term in England, applicable to the higher and responsible cla of public officials by whom the chief departments of the.1govern• ment of the kingdom are administered. The J number of these amounts to fifty or sixty persons. Their tenure of office depends on the con• fidence of a majority, of the house of co=ons, and they are supposed to be agreed on all mat• ters of general policy except such as are specifically left open questions. Cab. Lawy.-E:xK ecutive officer. An officer of the executive department of government; one in whom resides the power to execute tl!.e laws; one whose duties are to cause the laws to be executed and obeyed. Thome v.,San Francisco, 4 Cal. 146; People v. Salsbury, 134 Mich. 637, 96 N. W. 939; Petters on v. State (TeL Or. _A.pp.) 58 S. w.100.. L. · [s. 467]