Meeting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Occur
To meet to clash
Rencounter
To meet unexpectedly to encounter
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original
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Resolution
entitled to vote as are present in person or by proxy (where proxies are allowed) at a general meeting, of which notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution as an extraordinary resolution has been duly given;
Casting vote
vote, the vote given by the chairman or president of a deliberative assembly when the suffrages of the meeting are equal. The chairman, though not disqualified by law from voting, Nell v. Longbottom, 1894 (1) QB 767,
Churchwardens
1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the
Consultation
be returned, whereupon the writ in this case obtained is called a consultation, Reg. Brev. 44. Also a meeting of two or more counsel and the solicitor instructing them for deliberating or advising. A similar meeting of
Liquidator
183-197 of the Act. (2) Liquidators of a company winding-up voluntarily are appointed by the company in general meeting to wind up its affairs and thereupon the powers of the directors shall cease except so far as
Proxy
1889. A letter 'for the sole purpose of appointing or authorizing a proxy to vote at any one meeting at which votes may be given by proxy, whether the number of persons named in such instrument be
Poll
to vote present, by proxy, or otherwise, as opposed to counting the votes of voters present at a meeting. As to taking a poll at parliamentary and municipal elections by secret voting, see the Ballot Act, 1872.
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