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Guillotine

The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler, p. 548. Is the most drastic method of curtailing debate in a legislature, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 410. In the House of commons, guillotine

gag rule

gag rule : a law, order, or ruling that prohibits free debate or expression of ideas, information, or opinions [a long-standing Florida gag rule barring people from discussing complaints they

Inconclusive

Not conclusive leading to no conclusion not closing or settling a point in debate or a doubtful question as evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed

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Explanation

personal explanation with the prior permission of the speaker in respect of his conduct or alleged misrepresentation in debate. The member has to intimate speaker what he proposes to say by way of personal explanation. General arguments

Cabinet

of Government, policy and outlines alternative polices. Members of shadow cabinet get precedence in asking questions and in debate, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 211. The institution of shadow cabinet came into being as

Civil Law

Codex Repetiat' Pr'lectionis, containing 200 of Justinian's own laws, and the 50 decisions on the most obscure and debatable points of jurisprudence. The Code was divided into twelve books, each book into titles, and each title into

Cloture

Cloture. The procedure in deliberative assemblies whereby debate is closed. Introduced in the English Parliament in the session of 1882, and now anglicized into 'Closure.'

Exchequer Chamber, Court of

of, a tribunal of error and appeal. First, it existed in former times as a Court of mere debate, such causes from the other Courts being sometimes adjourned into it as the judges upon argument found to

Expunction of remarks

American Dictionary, p. 410. In British Parliament, if a member uses disorderly, offensive or unparliamentary words in a debate, immediate notice is taken if such words. If a member desires that such words be noted, he has

Floor of the House

chamber which is technically 'within the House' i.e. between the bar of the House and the Speaker's chair. Debate may not take place outside these limits and a member may only address the House from the floor,

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