Executive administration, or ministry

A political term in England, applicable to the higher and responsible class of public officials by whom the chief departments of the government of the kingdom are administered. The number of these amounts to fifty or sixty persons. Their tenure of office depends on the confidence of a majority of the house of commons, and they are supposed-to be agreed on all matters of general policy except such as are specifically left open questions. Cab. Lawy.

Defined under Executive in Black's Law Dictionary.