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Calling attention, in Indian Parliament, a member may, with the previous permission of the Speaker, call the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public importance and request a statement thereon, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).Only matters concerning the Government of India can be raised through a Calling Attention Notice, the notice must be given on the same day on which a matter has arisen or become publicly known, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS).In the Lok Sabha not more than five members whose names are shown in the list of business are allowed to ask clarificatory questions, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 2002, R. 197(2), Proviso (LS)....
Debate
Debate, is a sum of money reduced to a certainty and does not include a claim for uncertain damages, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 315.Is a sum payable in respect of a liquidated money demand recoverable by action, Stroud's Dictionary of Law, p. 612When the debate on any motion becomes unduly protracted the speaker can fix a time limit for its completion. At the appointed hour, the question is put forthwith and thus the debate on the subject is closed, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, rule 263.A member has to be relevant to the subject under discussion, if he persists in irrelevance the Speaker can direct him to discontinue his speech, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, rule 356.In the Indian Parliament, a debate takes place on a motion, resolution etc., moved in the House, Debate also takes place under short duration discussion although no formal motion has been moved; no debate is all...
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...
letter
letter 1 : a direct written statement addressed to an individual or organization ;broadly : an official communication see also counterletter determination letter : a letter from an administrative agency (as the Internal Revenue Service) usually in response to a request in which a determination, decision, or ruling (as whether an organization qualifies as charitable) is made information letter : a letter from an administrative agency usually in response to a request that provides information and esp. that simply calls attention to an interpretation or principle of law letter of intent : a letter in which the intention to enter into a formal agreement (as a contract) or to take some specified action is stated letter ro·ga·to·ry [-rō-gə-tȯr-ē] [probably partial translation of Medieval Latin littera rogatoria letter of request] : a formal written request by a court to a court in a foreign jurisdiction to summon and examine a witness in accordance...
Hello
An exclamation used as a greeting to call attention as an exclamation of surprise or to encourage one This variant of Halloo and Holloo has become the dominant form In the United States it is the most common greeting used in answering a telephone...
highlight
To emphasize or call attention to by moving into the foreground or otherwise making more prominent...
Nudge
To touch gently as with the elbow in order to call attention or convey intimation...
Paragraph
Originally a marginal mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text e g a change of subject now the character para commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote or to indicate the place of a division into sections...
Chancellor, Lord
Chancellor, Lord, properly, 'the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain' [fr. Cancellarius, low Lat., cancelli, Lat., latticework], the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king's Great Seal into his custody. He may not be a Roman Catholic (10 Geo. 4, c. 7, s. 12). He is a cabinet minister, a privy councillor, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription (but not necessarily, though usually, a peer of the realm), and vacates his office with the ministry by which he was appointed, but is entitled to a pension. When royal commissions are issued for opening the session, for giving the royal assent to bills, or for proroguing Parliament, the Lord Chancellor is always one of the commissioners, and reads the royal speech on the occasion. To him belongs the appointment of all justices of the peace throughout the kingdom, and the appointment and removal of county court judges (se...
Occupation
Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs.There is nothing ambiguous about the word 'occupation' as it is used in the sense of employing one's time. It is a relative term, in common use with a well-understood meaning, and very broad in its scope and significance. It is described as a generic and very comprehensive term, which includes every species of the genus, and encompasses the incidental, as well as the main, requirements of one's vocation calling, or business. The word 'occupation' is variously defined as meaning the principal business of one's life; the principal or usual business in which a man engages; that which principally takes up one's time, thought, and energies; that which occupies or engages the time and attention; that particular business, profession, trade, or calling which engages the time and efforts of an ...
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