Absentee Ballot - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: absentee ballotabsentee ballot
absentee ballot : a ballot submitted (as by mail) in advance of an election by a voter who is unable to be present at the polls ...
Absentees, or des absentees
Absentees, or des absentees, A Parliament so called was held at Dublin, 10th May, 8 Hen. 8. It is mentioned in letters-patent 29 Hen. 8....
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
absentee
absentee : one that is absent: as a : a proprietor who lives away from his or her business or estate b : a potential party to a legal action who is not present or does not have a representative present at a proceeding absentee adj ...
Ballot and Sale Society
Ballot and Sale Society, a building society in which the right to have an advance from the funds of the society free of interest is determined alternately by a ballot among the members and by putting up the right to a sort of auction, the members bidding against each other for the right to the advance and the one who bids the highest obtaining it; see (English) Building Societies Act, 1894, s. 12, prohibiting balloting in the case of societies established since the Act....
Absentee
Absentee, a person who is away from his usual place of residence; a non-resident landlord....
Ballot
To vote or decide by ballot as to ballot for a candidate...
Ballotation
Voting by ballot...
Balloter
One who votes by ballot...
Militia
Militia, the national soldiery, as distinguished from the regular forces or standing army, being the inhabitants, or, as they have been sometimes called, the trained bands of a town or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen and thirty, who are to be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born in wedlock and other persons (42 Geo. 3, c. 90, s. 43); but by Acts dating from 10 Geo. 4, c. 10, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia were from time to time suspended.Finally in 1865, by the (English) Militia (Ballot Suspension) Act, 1865--a temporary Act, continued annually from time to time by successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts--these statutes were suspended, subject t...
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