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Guillotine

Guillotine, is an instrument for beheading, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 849. Is a method of preventing obstruction by fixing times at which parts of Bill must be voted on, The Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler and...

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 made against police officers "National Law...

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 case in such a...

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Explanation

Explanation, an 'explanation' merely widens the scope of the main s. and is not meant to carve out a particular exception to the contents of the main s., Sonia Bhatia v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR...

Cabinet

Cabinet, is an inner body within the Council of Ministers which is responsible for formulating the policy of the Government. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to Lok Sabha. It is headed by the Prime...

Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...

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

Exchequer Chamber, Court 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...

Expunction of remarks

Expunction of remarks, in Parliament, deletion of defamatory, indecent, unparliamentary or undignified words, phrases or expressions from the proceedings of the House by an order of the Speaker, Handbook of Members of Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th...

Floor of the House

Floor of the House, is part of the legislative 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...

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