Chairman - Indian Laws - General

Chairman According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary means- a person chosen to preside over meetings, e.g., one who presides over the meetings of the Board of Directors. In Black s law Dictionary, 6th Edition, page 230 , the same expression is defined as- a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine s law Dictionary, 3rd Edition, pages 189-190, Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd Edition, page 299, and Aiyer s Judicial Dictionary, 11th Edition, page [T.N. SESHAN CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER OF INDIA VERSUS U.O.I.- 1995 (7) TMI 422 - SUPREME COURT]