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Home Dictionary Name: pollPolled
Deprived of a poll or of something belonging to the poll Specifically a Lopped said of trees having their tops cut off b Cropped hence bald said of a person ldquoThe polled bachelorrdquo Beau amp Fl c Having cast the antlers said of a stag d Without horns as polled cattle polled sheep...
Poll
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....
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...
Polling Station
Polling Station, in relation to an election means the place for taking poll of the election. [The West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(15)]...
poll tax
poll tax : a tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults ...
Deed poll
A deed of one part or executed by only one party and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even or polled as it was anciently termed instead of being indented...
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...
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