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Right to elect, a right to elect, fundamental though it is to democracy, is, anomalously enough, neither a fundamental right nor a common law right. It is pure and simple, a statutory right. So is the right to be elected. So is the right to dispute an election. Outside of statute, there is no right to elect, no right to be elected and no right to dispute an election. Statutory creations they are, and therefore, subject to statutory limitation, Jyoti Basu v. Debi Ghosal, AIR 1982 SC 983: (1982) 1 SCC 691: (1982) 3 SCR 318...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
elective
elective 1 a : chosen by popular election [an official] b : of or relating to election c : based on the right or principle of election [the presidency is an office] 2 a : permitting a choice compare compulsory b : available as a choice [ insurance coverage] c : beneficial to the patient but not essential for survival [ surgery] ...
Self elective
Having the right of electing ones self or as a body of electing its own members...
voting rights
voting rights 1 : rights of participation in esp. public elections see also Voting Rights Act in the Important Laws section 2 : the rights of shareholders or directors to vote on corporate matters compare voting stock at stock voting trust at trust ...
Suffrage
Suffrage [fr. suffragium; etymology uncertain], vote; elective franchise; voice given in a controverted point; aid; assistance. See ELECTORAL FRAN-CHISE.The right or privilege of casting a vote at a public election, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1447....
Enfranchisement
Enfranchisement, making free; used (1) of the newly conferring, as by the Reform Act, 1832, a right of constituency to return a member to Parliament, or of a person to vote at a Parliamentary election; and (2) of the turning copyholds into freeholds, as to which see COPYHOLD.The granting of voting rights or other right of citizenship to class or person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 549....
Magna assisa eligendia, Writ de
Magna assisa eligendia, Writ de. The first species of extraordinary trial by jury is that of the grand assize, which was instituted by Henry II., in parliament, by way of alternative offered to the choice of the tenant or defendant in a writ of right, instead of the barbarous and unchristian custom of duelling. The writ issued to the sheriff to return four knights, who were to elect and choose twelve others to be joined with them, and these, all together, formed the grand assize or great jury, which was to try the matter of right. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, 3 Bl. Com. 351....
election
election 1 a : the act or process of electing b : an instance of the electorate voting for candidates for an elective office c : the fact of being elected 2 : the right, power, or privilege of making a choice: as a : the right of a spouse to choose a statutorily prescribed amount of a deceased spouse's estate or whatever was devised to him or her under the will b : the right of a person who has an interest in property that a deceased has disposed of by will either to claim his or her right to the property or to accept what he or she was devised under the will instead c : the right of a party to a contract that has been breached by the other party to choose to continue or terminate the contract see also election of remedies, equitable election ...
Quo warranto
Quo warranto, a writ issuable out of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty to inquire 'by what authority' he supports his claim, in order to determine the right. It lies also in case of non-user or long neglect of a franchise, or mis-user or abuse of it, whereby it is forfeited.This proceeding was, until 1872, the one generally adopted for the purpose of trying the right to be elected to municipal offices, but the (English) Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, by s. 12, replaced by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 87 [see now s. 71 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)], substituted an election petition in the cases where an election is sought to be questioned on the ground of bribery, etc., disqualification, or undue return. By s. 84 of the Act of 1933, proceedings must be instituted within six...
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