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Pairing Off

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Pairing-off, a practice which is said to have originated in the time of Cromwell, whereby two members of the House of Commons, or other deliberative assembly, of opposite opinions, agree to absent themselves from voting on a particular division or during a given period.

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