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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

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,...

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Election

steps by which an elected member is returned, whether or not it is found necessary to take a poll, State of Karnataka v. Gunjahalli Nagappa, (1976) 1 SCC 204: AIR 1975 SC 1708: (1976) 1 SCR 57.

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

Mauzadar

other Government dues with the collection of which he is entrusted. He is responsible for the collection of poll-tax, house-tax, tauzibahir revenue, grazing fees and forest dues. He undertakes to pay into the treasury the full amount

Parish meeting

majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year,

Continuing candidate

Continuing candidate, a continuing candidate has been defined to mean not elected and not exclude from the poll at any given time, Lalit Mohan Pandey v. Pooran Singh, (2004) 6 SCC 626 (644): AIR 2004 SC

Charta de una parte

Charta de una parte, a deed-poll. See DED POLL.

Polled

Deprived of a poll or of something belonging to the poll Specifically a Lopped said of trees having their tops cut off

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