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Quorum (of whom), the number of members of an administrative or judicial body whose presence is necessary for the acts of the body to be valid; e.g., of a County Borough Licensing Committee, which consists of not less than seven members, the quorum is three members, (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, s. 3. The term is derived from the 'justices of the quorum.' See JUSTICES, and the General Index to Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Quorum.''Quorum' denotes the minimum number of members of any body of persons whose presence is necessary in order to enable that body to transact its business validly so that its acts may be lawful. It is generally left to committees themselves to fix the quorum for their meetings and if it is not fixed by the authority which constituted it then it is competent for the committee itself to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing judicial function. Quorum is fixed for meetings of committe...
Quorum
Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business as a quorum of the House of Representatives a constitutional quorum was not present...
Quorum of two Directors
Quorum of two Directors, means a quorum of two directors who are competent to transact and vote on the business before the Board of Directors, Needle Industries (India) Ltd. v. Needle Industries Newey (India) Holdings Ltd., AIR 1981 SC 1298: (1981) 3 SCC 333: (1981) 3 SCR 698....
quorum
quorum [Middle English, a select number of English justices of the peace formerly required to be present at sessions to constitute a lawful bench, from Latin, of whom, genitive plural of qui who; from the wording of the commission once issued to justices of the peace in England] : the number (as a majority) of members or officers that must be present to conduct business [lacked a at the meeting of shareholders] ...
Alienatio licet prohibeatur, consensu tamen omnium in quorum favorem prohibita est potest fieri
Alienatio licet prohibeatur, consensu tamen omnium in quorum favorem prohibita est potest fieri [Lat.], Although alienation be prohibited, yet by the consent of all those in whose favour it is prohibited it may take place....
Fixation of quorum
Fixation of quorum, the fix number of persons who would constitute a particular body and can validly and effectively transact the business of and on behalf of the body. Punjab University, Chandigarh v. Vijay Singh Lamba, AIR 1976 SC 1441: (1976) 3 SCC 344: (1976) Supp SCR 67....
Justices
Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...
Chief whip
Chief whip, in the Indian Parliament the chief whip of the Government party in Lok Sabha is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; he directly responsible to the leader of the House and advisers the Government on Parliamentary business. He ensures quorum in the House and advices the Government on Parliamentary business. He ensures quorum in the House and that adequate number of members of the party are present at the time of voting and sends advance intimation through the familiar system of ordinary one, two and three line whips. He selects the speakers from his party and also the members for select committees etc. In the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs holds the position of Chief Whip of the Government party. Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Sakdhar, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 148.The Government whip performs the most important duties, he is officially designated as Parliamentary secretary to the Treasury and his main work is the organizati...
Majority
Majority. 1. The full age of 21 years; a minor comes of age in the eye of the law on the day preceding the anniversary of his birth. 2. The grater number. In a deliberative body, questions are ordinarily decided by a majority of those present at a meeting and voting, provided that the whole number present be not less than a certain quorum (see QUORUM) of the whole body. See, e.g., Local Government Act, 1933, s. 75, and Parts I. to V. of the Third Schedule thereto. See MEETING, and as to restrictions upon the powers of a company exercised by a majority in general meeting, see Re Hoare & Co. Ltd., 150 LT 374....
annual meeting
annual meeting : a meeting of shareholders that the law requires a corporation to hold each year for the election of directors and the transaction of other business compare special meeting NOTE: In order for a vote taken at an annual meeting to be valid, shareholders must have received notice of the time, place, and date of the meeting within a certain period, and there must be enough shareholders present to make a quorum. ...
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