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Nominee

by another to any office duty or position one nominated or proposed by others for office or for election to office One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office

Agent

v. Francis, (1870) LR 5 CP 295; Durant v. Keighley, Maxted & Co., 1910 AC 240. As to election agents see the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), by new law. As to

Alderman

should remain six years in office (being twice the length of the councillors's period of office), and be elected by the councillors, but not necessarily from amongst the councillors; and this enactment is repeated by s. 14

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party while retaining their separate identity instead of merging themselves into the new political party, Ramashankar Kaushik v. Election Commission of India, (1974) 1 SCC 271: AIR 1974 SC 445 (452). [Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order,

Application

482 (2)(a)] Word 'application,' as used in s. 671 of the Act, would include within its ambit an election petition wherein a voter to the candidate makes the prayer to the Court and seeks the redress of

Direct nomination

for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention

Bar Committee

Bar Committee. An elected body formed in 1883 'to collect and express the opinions of the members of the Bar on matters

Common Pleas, the Court of

Formal or plenary. (1) Real actions, under the C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26. (2) Under the (English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), over petitions complaining of an undue return or undue election

Board

the Board of Trade, the Board of Control, the Board of Admiralty, and the Local Government Board; or elected for the purposes of local government, as a Board of Guardians under the Poor Law Acts, a Local

Defection

from disqualification as long as he holds that office and does not join any other party, Law of Elections, P.D.T. Achary, 2004, p. 190. Decision on questions, as to disqualification on ground of defection shall be of

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