Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A business office; a government department.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    An office for the transaction of business. A name given to the several departments of the executive or administrative branch of government or to their larger subdivisions. In re Strawbridge, 39 Ala. 375.