Debate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Rules of procedure
Parliament, the greater part of the rules are unwritten, to be collected from the journals or reports of debates, or to be ascertained from personal experience; the written part constitutes a very small portion of the corpus
Speaker
Speaker, is the guardian of the privileges of the House. His function is to regulate debate and enforce the observance of the rules which govern its conduct. He is also representative of the House
Vice-President
the Rajya Sabha. He presides over the sittings of that House. He enjoys all powers to regulate the debate and proceeding of Rajya Sabha and is also the Head of the Secretariat of that Hose, A Comment-ary
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Briga
Briga [fr. brique, Fr.], debate, contention
Protraction
continuing the act of delaying the termination of a thing prolongation continuance delay as the protraction of a debate
Articles, Lords of the
influence of the Crown, and to confer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate. This system appeared inconsistent with the freedom of Parliament, and at the Revolution, the convention of Estates declared
report out
out : to return after consideration and often with revisions to a legislative body for action [after much debate the committee reported the bill out]
canvass
detail ;specif : to examine (votes) officially for authenticity b : to make the subject of discussion or debate 2 : to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political
cloture
cloture [French clture, literally, closure] : the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body esp. by calling for a vote cloture vt
Misstate
To state wrongly as to misstate a question in debate
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