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expunge

expunge ex·punged ex·pung·ing : to cancel out or destroy completely [ the court records of an acquitted defendant] ex·punge·ment n ...


Expunge

To blot out as with pen to rub out to efface designedly to obliterate to strike out wholly as to expunge words lines or sentences...


expunging

deletion by an act of expunging or erasing...


expunction

expunction : the act of expunging : the state of being expunged ...


Expunction

The act of expunging or erasing the condition of being expunged...


Expunction

Expunction, when a member uses objectionable words, the Speaker asks the member to withdraw them. If the member refuses to withdraw the words, he orders expunction of such remarks. However, on many occasions, Speaker enlarged the scope of the rule and expunged words prejudicial to national interest, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 2004.In India, if the Speaker is of the opinion that a member has used defamatory or indecent or unparliamentary or undignified expressions, exercising his discretion, Speaker orders that such words be expunged from the proceedings of the House, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 380....


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 Edn., 1999, p. 71.Is an act of striking out, erasion, deletion or cancellation, Webster 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 to repeat those words exactly as they were spoken. If the Speaker or Chairman is of the view that the words spoken were disorderly or after ascertaining sense of the House directs the clerk to take down such words, he asks the member to withdraw them. If the member refuses to do so or does not offer apology Speaker repeats his call and if the member does not respond to it, Speaker takes action in pursuance of S.O. 43, Practice and Procedure...


Delete

To blot out to erase to expunge to dele to omit...


Dispunge

To expunge to erase...


Erase

To rub or scrape out as letters or characters written engraved or painted to efface to expunge to cross out as to erase a word or a name...


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