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disqualify
To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose to render unfit to incapacitate with for or from before the purpose state or act
Dishabilitate
To disqualify
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Clergy
duties (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 36). The clergy, by 41 Geo. 3, c. 63, are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons. By the Ministers of (English) Religion (Removal of Disqualifications) Act, 1925
Electoral roll
ordinarily resident in the constituency concerned is entitled to be registered in the electoral role. A person is disqualified for the registration in the electoral roll if he is not a citizen of India or is of
Jury
or occupying a house of a certain rateable value. Until the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, women were disqualified at common law from acting as jurors except in the case of a Jury of Matrons (q.v.). Now
Woman
and see infra. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919, s. 1, provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex or marriage from the exercise of any public function, or from being appointed to or holding
disqualify
1 : to deprive of the required qualities, properties, or conditions [a financial interest in the case that disqualified the judge] 2 : to deprive of a right or privilege esp. after a hearing [misconduct that disqualified
Election Commission
of election expenses. [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 10A] Advises the President/Governor on the question of disqualification of any member of Parliament or a member of a State Legislature. The President or the Governor, as
Chiltern hundreds
Chiltern hundreds. A member of the House of Commons cannot resign his seat. He may, however, become disqualified by acceptance of an office of profit under the Crown. A member therefore usually vacates his seat by
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