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Clerk of the Crown in Chancery

s. 8, by which this officer performs the duties of clerk of the hanaper (see HANAPER) and receives ballot papers, etc., after a parliamentary election from the returning officers under Rule 38 of Schedule I. of (English)

Ballotage

In France a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates a runoff election

Expiring laws continuance Acts

which has frequently caused complaint in the House of Commons (see Solicitors' Journal, April 18th, 1903). The (English) Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33), was, for example, kept in force by annual inclusion in

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Vote

a whole, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 1094. Vote, suffrage voice given. See titles BALLOT and ELECTORAL FRANCHISE

Valid notes

Valid notes, rule 58 framed under Representation of the Peoples Act, 1951 which provides that every ballot paper which is not rejected under rule 57 should be deemed to be valid and must be counted,

U.R

U.R. (initials of uti rogas, be it as you desire), a ballot, thus inscribed, by which the Romans voted in favour of a bill or candidate, Tay. C. L. 191.

Poll

at a meeting. As to taking a poll at parliamentary and municipal elections by secret voting, see the Ballot Act, 1872. Wherever a person has to be chosen, or a thing may be ordered to be done

Parish meeting

a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of

Non liquet

hearing a cause, such of the judges as thought it not sufficiently clear to pronounce upon cast a ballot into the urn with the two letters N.L. for non liquet.

Nominatim

taken any benefit of the lapse, he is obliged to admit such clerk, Plowd. 529. Also [see (English) Ballot Act, 1872; (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 55; Representation of People (No. 2) Act, 1920 (10 &

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