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Preferential voting
system of voting as at primaries in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference usually their first and second choices between two or more candidates for an office so that if no
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Fraud
acts which have been declared to be or treated as fradulent by statute, see MISFEASANCE; PROSPECTUS; WINDING-UP; FRADULENT PREFERENCE; FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES; PASSING OFF. Fraud and collusion vitiate even the most solemn proceedings in any civilised system of
country of chargeability
country of chargeability The independent country to which an immigrant entering under the preference system is accredited for purposes of numerical limitations. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Benefice
Benefice [fr. beneficium, M. Lat., a kindness], an ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898
Supreme Court of Judicature
order of the High Court; power was given to each division to administer law and equity concurrently, with preference for the rules of equity, where they should be found to be in conflict with the rules of … in 'third parties,' were introduced; new rules of pleading, intending to combine the brevity of the Common Law system with the specific character of equity drafting, were substituted for those previously existing; special power was given under
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