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Poll, to give a vote at an election; also to receive a vote; also a taking of votes of all persons entitled 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.Wherever a person has to be chosen, or a thing may be ordered to be done by the majority of persons entitled to vote, there is a Common Law right to demand a poll, so that all entitled to vote may have a second opportunity of voting, Reg. v. Wimbledon Local Board, (1881) 8 QBD 459, better reported, 46 LT 47. Voting papers are allowed if the Articles of Association or other regulations so provide, McMillan v. Le Roi Mining Co. Ltd., (1906) 1 Ch 331, and s. 116, Companies Act, 1929. As to the power of the chairman to direct a poll to be taken forthwith, i.e., at the meeting, see Re Chillington Iron Co., (1885) 29 Ch D 159; Re British Flax Co., (1889) 60 LT 215. The taking of a...
Poll-money, Poll-silver, Poll-tax
Poll-money, Poll-silver, Poll-tax, a capitation-tax. It was formerly assessed by the head on every subject according to rank....
Deed-poll
Deed-poll, a single deed in the form of a manifesto or declaration to all the world of the grantor's act and intention. If there be no recital it usually speaks in the first person, but where recitals are introduced it speaks in the third person. See DEED.A deed poll is a deed made by and expressing the active intention of one party only, or made by two or more persons joining together in expressing a common active intention of them all. A deed poll is so called because the parchment required for such deeds has usually been shared even which evidences some act or agreement between them other than the mere consent to join in expressing the same active intention on the part of all. An indenture derives its name from the fact that the parchment on which such a deed was written was indented or cut with a waving or indented line at the top. Co Litt 229, Halsbury's Laws of England 13, para 3, p. 5....
poll tax
poll tax : a tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults ...
exit poll
a survey poll taken by interviewing voters as they leave exit the polling place to determine how they voted and for what reasons it is usually taken by news media to learn at an early time often before the balloting has finished who the winners are and sometimes the reasons for the voters choices...
Polls, Challenge to the
Polls, Challenge to the. See CHALLENGE....
Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
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...
Voter on election duty
Voter on election duty, means any Presiding Officer, polling officer, any other public servant or any polling agent who is a voter and is, by reason of his being on election duty, unable to vote at the polling station where he is entitled to vote. [West Bengal Panchayat Elections Act, 2003, s. 2(27)]...
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