Balloter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: balloterBallot
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...
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 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 ...
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...
Ballotage
In France a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates a runoff election...
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. See (English) Great Seal (Offices) Act, 1881 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 81), 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) the Ballot Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33).The head of the permanent staff of the crown office in chancery responsible for reading the titles of bills in the house of lords, sending out writs of summons to peers, and issuing election writs, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Exhausted paper
Exhausted paper, means a ballot paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate; provided that a paper shall be deemed to be exhausted in any case in which--(a) the names of two or more candidates whether continuing or not are marked with the same figure, and are next in order of preference; or(b) the name of the candidate next in order of preference whether continuing or not, is marked by a number not following consecutively after some other number on the ballot paper or by two or more numbers, Dhara Singh v. District Judge, AIR 1968 SC 227: (1968) 1 SCR 243....
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial