Returned Candidate - Law Dictionary Search Results
file
filed by representatives of the estates "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] vi 1 : to register as a candidate esp. in a primary election 2 : to place items in a file n : a collection of … file among the records esp. as a procedural step in a legal transaction or proceeding [filed a tax return] [a financing statement filed with the Secretary of State] [filing a notice of appeal] ;also : record [filed
War Office
a separate election for each ward, and every elector may give one vote and no more for each candidate For qualification to vote, see Representa-tion of the People Act (ibid., s. 51). See also WATCH AND WARD. … 30]. In boroughs divided by wards, an alderman or, in some cases, a councillor, not the mayor, is returning officer (s. 28). As to district councils, see ss. 36 and 37. Parishes may be divided into wards
Husting
the occasion of their public oral nomination, and from which a show of hands was taken by the returning officer. A deliberative assembly, esp. one called by king or other loader, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. … places, similar to the London hustings, Madox, Hist. Excheq., c. xx. Also the raised wooden platform from which candidates for seats in Parliament, prior to the (English) Ballot Act, 1872, addressed the constituency on the occasion of
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Leave
noun. Taking the word in its ordinary parlance if used as a verb it clearly connotes that the candidate should have given up the job or quitted the service or severed all connections with the post that … (85) observes as follows: 'Wilful departure with intent to remain away, and not temporary absence with intention of returning.' To the same effect is the definition of the word 'leave' when used as a verb in Webster's
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