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pocket veto : a veto of legislation that occurs indirectly when an executive refrains from signing the legislation and the adjournment of the legislature prevents its automatic enactment (as upon expiration of ten days) ...
Postpone
To defer to a future or later time to put off also to cause to be deferred or put off to delay to adjourn as to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day or indefinitely...
Anticipation
Anticipation, doing or taking a thing before the appointed time. For anticipation of an invention see PATENTS. A married woman may be restrained by the terms of a will or settlement from aliening, by way of anticipation, property settled to her separate use during coverture. Such a clause absolutely disables her from selling, mortgaging or dealing with the property in anticipation, but it does not apply to income actually accrued due, Hood Barrs v. Heriot, 1896 AC 174, and on the determination of the coverture the restraint is at an end, Tullett v. Armstrong, (1839) 4 My&Cr 377; 1 Beav 1. Such a provision is only effective during coverture; it cannot affect dispositions in favour of a man, Brandon v. Robinson, (1871) 18 Ves 429, or a feme sole. The restraint may be applied either to corpus or income, usually only to the latter; in a marriage settlement the wife's income is almost invariably directed to be paid to her, without power of anticipation.' The L.P. Act, 1925, s. 169, repeatin...
Eat inde sine die
Eat inde sine die, words used on the acquittal of a defendant, 'that he may go thence without a day,' i.e., be dismissed without any further trial or adjournment....
County sessions
County sessions. They are the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, and are held four times a year; by the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 22, they shall instead of being held at the times prescribed by s. 35 of the Law Terms Act, 1830, be held at such times within the period of 21 days immediately preceding or immediately following March 25th, June 24th, September 29th, December 25th.In London County (see S.R. & O., 1932, No. 418) Quarter Sessions shall be held at Newington January, April, July and October, and the first sessions held in each of these months shall be Geneal Quarter Sessions; Adjourned Quarter Sessions shall also be held in all months at intervals of not less than two weeks or more than three weeks after the beginning of each preceding Quarter Sessions or Adjourned Quarter Sessions. see QUARTER SESSIONS....
Pocket veto
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law in virtue of the following constitutional provision Const Art I sec 7 cl 2 ldquoIf any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days Sundays excepted after it shall have been presented to him the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return in which case it shall not be a lawrdquo Also an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor...
Proxy
Proxy, a person appointed, usually by written authority, by a person entitled to vote personally, to vote at the discretion of the proxy. See Harben v. Phillips, (1883) 23 Ch D p. 35.As to voting by proxy under the (English) Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), see sections 76, 77 of that Act; amended in the case of a company being shareholder, by the Companies Clauses Acts, 1888 and 1889.A letter 'for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be one or more,' must bear a penny stamp, must specify the day on which the meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62) prohibit the sending out of stamped proxies in connection with extension bills. Directors, acting in ...
Rules of Court
Rules of Court, orders regulating the practice of the Courts; or orders made between parties to an action or suit.(1) General rules regulating the practice of the Courts, both of Common Law and Equity, have from time to time been made by the Courts in pursuance of the powers of various Acts of Parliament. See as to the Common Law Courts, which promulgated consecutive Rules without any division into Orders, Day's Common Law Procedure Acts; and as to the Court of Chancery, which promulgated Orders subdivided into Rules, Morgan's Chancery Acts and Orders. The scheme of the Chancery Procedure Acts was that the Orders made thereunder should come into force as soon as made, subject to the power of Parliament to annul them afterwards (see, e.g., Chancery Procedure Act, 1858, s. 12), while that of the Common Law Procedure Acts, was that Rules made thereunder should not come into force until they had lain before Parliament for three months (see 13 & 14 Vict. c. 16, and Common Law Procedure Act,...
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