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Home Dictionary Name: adjournment motionAdjournment Motion
Adjournment Motion, means a motion for discussing 'a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration'. Wilding and Laundry, the Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 247. 'Adjourn motion' is a motion which can be moved by any member of the House and is in the nature of emergency motion of censure upon the government. Wilding and Laundry -- The Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 9.The object is to draw the attention of the Govern-ment to a matter of urgent public importance so as to criticize the decision of Government in an urgent matter in regard to which a motion or resolution with proper notice will be too late. Kaul and Shakdher -- Practice and Procedure of Parliament, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 496.If the Speaker gives his consent after satisfying himself that the matter to be raised is definite urgent and of public importance and holds that the matter proposed to be discussed is in order, he shall call the member concerned who sh...
Adjourn
Adjourn, to recess or postpone, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 42.Adjourn applies to the action of a deliberative body etc. in bringing a sitting to a close, with the intention of resuming on the next working day or a specified later date. Webster Law Dictionary, p. 18.In U.K., the House of Lords and the House of Commons may each adjourn at their own pleasure. In both Houses, an adjournment is effected by the adoption of the motion, 'That this House do now adjourn'. The motion to adjourn the House provides an opportunity for debate and half-an-hour is allotted for such debate. The subjects debated are of a wide range. In the House of Commons, sometimes, adjournment takes place without such a motion being carried, e.g., the Speaker may adjourn the House due to the absence of quorum or owing to grave disorder in the House. Wilding and Laundy. The Office of the Speaker in Parliament of Commonwealth, p. 6.In Lok Sabha, the Speaker determines when sitting of House is to adjourn sine die...
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...
Leave of the House
Leave of the House, in the Lok Sabha, formal leave of the House has to be obtained to introduce a Bill, move motions such as adjournment motion, motion of no confidence in the council of ministers, resolution for removal of Speaker/Deputy Speaker, to raise a question of privilege, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 549....
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding v. Lorant, (1851) 3 HLC 418. The adjournment of a trial is in the discretion of the judge. As to adjournment of trial in the High Court, see R.SC. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34; and as to adjournments in County Courts, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 36.As to adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), s. 16.Unless the object of the context or inquiry otherwise warrants the term 'adjournment' in connection with a meeting should be applied only to the case of a meeting which has already convened and which is thereafter postponed and not to a case where a notice convening a meeting is cancelled and subsequently, a notice for holding the ...
motion
motion [Anglo-French, from Latin motion- motio movement, from movēre to move] 1 : a proposal for action ;esp : a formal proposal made in a legislative assembly [made a to refer the bill to committee] 2 a : an application made to a court or judge to obtain an order, ruling, or direction [a to arrest judgment] ;also : a document containing such an application b : the initiative of a court to issue an order, ruling, or direction [the court is given discretion to order a pretrial conference either on its own or at the request of a party "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] motion for judgment on the pleadings : a motion made after pleadings have been entered that requests the court to issue a judgment at that point compare summary judgment at judgment NOTE: Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if matters outside of the pleadings are presented to the court when a motion for judgment on the pleadings is made, the motion will be treated as a motion for summary judgment. motion f...
Censure motion
Censure motion, is a motion moved against the government censuring its policy in some direction or an individual minister or ministers of the Government, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 775.In France too, a motion of no-confidence is called the motion of caesure and when it is adopted by the National Assembly, the Government has to resign, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, pp. 396, 397.The government is under obligation to allow time for this motion and it invariably allots an early day for the discussion, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 280, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 83.Is usually moved by the leader of opposition, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philips Laundy, p. 775.In the House of Commons, a motion of no-confidence in the Government is called a censure motion, Parliamentary Practic...
Motion
Motion, an occasional application to a Court in the progress of a cause, e.g., a motion for an injunction or the appointment of a receiver pending the trial of the action; or summarily and wholly unconnected with plenary proceedings, as a motion to rectify the register of a company.As to the notice of motion and procedure generally, see R.S.C., Ord. LII.Motion, every question to be decided by the House must be proposed by a member in the form of a motion, the motion is made by a member of the House and a question on it is put by the Chair. Thereupon the decision of the House is obtained, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine, May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 328.Motion, is a proposal made in the House of legisla-ture to elicit its decision on a subject, Office of the Speaker in the Parliament of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 481.Motions, are usually expressed in affirmative, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A., Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 122....
adjourn
adjourn : to put off further proceedings of either indefinitely or until a later stated time : close formally [ing the session] vi : to suspend a session or meeting till another time or indefinitely : suspend formal business or procedure and disband [the congress will next month] ad·journ·ment n ...
Adjournment of the House
Adjournment of the House, means suspension (proceeding) for the day; to put off until a future day. Webster's Law Dictionary, p. 18....
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