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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
Election
mean the final selection of a candidate which may embrace the result of the poll when there is polling, or a particular candidate being returned unopposed when there is no poll. In the wide sense, the word
Chevge, Chevagium, or cherage
such as held land in villeinage to their lords in acknowledgement, and was a kind of head or poll money, Bract. 1. 1, c. x.
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Resolution
passing of an extraordinary or special resolution the chairman's declaration that the resolution is carried shall, unless a poll is demanded, be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of votes recorded
Name
LR 2 CP 430. Names may be changed by (English) Act of Parliament, by Royal Licence, or deed poll: see S.R. & O., 1922, Nos. 210, 211, and notes, A.P., to R.S.C., Ord. LXI., r. 9. See
Municipal corporation
years, and one-third of their number goes out of office every year. If the election be contested the poll is taken by ballot, under the Ballot Act,1872. The aldermen, in number one-third of the number of councillors
Indenture
in a zig zag fashion to reduce the possibility of forgery and to distinguish it from a deed poll. A deed or elaborate contract signed by two or more parties, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 782.
Estoppel
Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:- (1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted...
Electoral roll
Republic of Ireland, (4) has to be of 18 years of age or above on the date of poll, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 26. In U.K., it is known as electoral Register. The
Covenant
of Properties Act, 1925, and ASSIGNMENT. A deed addressed to all the world, some times called a deed poll, was not within the rule that only parties to the deed could take advantage of it, Co. Litt,
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