the body of rules and principles that governs the duties and operations of federal or state administrative agencies, as commissions and boards
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: honky-tonk, masochism, phoneme, takedown, wireless
Examples of 'administrative law' in a sentence
administrative law
In administrative law a consultation is not a referendum.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In the context of an administrative law case, the documentation for the trial was unusually voluminous.
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His writings on administrative law set the subject in the context of social, politicaland economic pressures.
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There was little specialisation, and areas such as commercial work and administrative law were underdeveloped.