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Home Dictionary Name: elector Page: 2Electoral divisions
Electoral divisions, divisions of an administrative county for the purpose of each of them returning a member of the County Council under the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)....
VerbarScrutin de liste
Voting for a group of candidates for the same kind of office on one ticket or ballot containing a list of them the method used in France as from June 1885 to Feb 1889 in elections for the Chamber of Deputies each elector voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived as disting from scrutin darrondissement dadotrocircNdemacrsmaumlN or voting by each elector for the candidate or candidates for his own arrondissement only...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Initiative
Initiative, means an electoral process by which a percentage of voters can propose legislation and compel a vote on it by the legislature or by the full electorate. Recognised in some State Constitutions, the initiative is one of the few methods of direct democracy in an otherwise representative system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 788....
Woman
Woman, the word 'woman' denotes a female human being of any age. (Indian Penal Code, s. 10)By the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 1, reproducing 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3, words in any Act of Parliament passed after 1850 importing the masculine gender include females unless the contrary intention appears. Women became qualified to be registered as apothecaries by the Apothecaries Amendment Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 34), s. 5; as surgeons by the College of Surgeons Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 43), s. 2; and as medical practitioners by the Medical Amendment Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 41), s. 1, 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 any civil or judicial office or post, or from entering or assuming or carrying on any civil profession or vocation, or for admission to any incorporated society (whether incorp...
For the time being entered in the electral roll
For the time being entered in the electral roll, the words 'for the time being entered in the electoral roll' in s. 62(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 must be taken to mean 'for the time being entered in the electoral roll in accordance with law', Ramji Prasad Singh v. Ram Bilas Jha, AIR 1976 SC 2573: (1977) 1 SCC 260: (1977) 1 SCR 741....
constituency
constituency pl: -cies 1 : a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive office) 2 : the residents in an electoral district 3 : an electoral district ...
Chooser
One who chooses one who has the power or right of choosing an elector...
Elisor
An elector or chooser one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified...
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