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Home Dictionary Name: right to elect Page: 3Disfranchisement
Disfranchisement, signifies taking a franchise from a man for some reasonable cause, Symmers v. R., (1776) 2 Cowp 489 (502)Disfranchisement, is the expulsion of a corporator from membership and involves the total depriva-tion of all privileges, rights, interest, profits and advantages which the individual member enjoyed whilst a corporator, Halsbury's Laws of England (9), para 1253, p. 746.Disfranchisement, the act of depriving of a franchise, immunity, or privilege; the depriving a constituency of a right to return a member to Parliament, or a person of a right to vote at a Parliamentary or Municipal Election....
Judicial Act
Judicial Act, the duties of the Election Officer certainly fit in with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties, and in deciding the objections raised he hears the parties and may also make an enquiry and, therefore, he has a duty to act judicially, Bandi Visweswara Rao v. Deputy Panchayat Officer, AIR 1957 AP 539.A Judicial act seems to be an act done by a competent authority upon a consideration of facts and circumstances and imposing liability or affecting the rights of others. It must be that of a person or persons who have legal authority to determine questions affecting the rights of parties and in a judicial manner, Kalavagunta Sriramarao v. Kalavagunta Suryanarayanamurthi, AIR 1954 Mad 340.Numerous statutes give summary power to justices of the peace, and declare that certain acts shall only be valid if done by two Magistrates. If it be only a ministerial a...
Freedom of a borough
Freedom of a borough, the right to enjoy the privileges of a freeman. Before the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, these privileges, in many cases valuable either from conferring, especially before the Reform Act, 1832, a limited parliamentary franchise or from other causes, could be sold or given away; but the Act of 1835, s. 3, enacted that no person should be admitted a freeman by gift or purchase, and s. 202 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, repeats this enactment, which is, however, qualified by the Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 29), in favour of the admission to be honorary freemen of persons of distinction and persons who have rendered eminent services to the borough (see now (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 259-265, which reproduces the provisions of the former Acts). The right of a freeman, as such, to a vote at parliamentary elections was abolished by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1...
Qualified elector
Qualified elector, means a legal voter; a person who meets the voting requirements for age, residency, and registration and who has the present right to vote in an election, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1254....
Option
The power of choosing the right of choice or election an alternative...
deduction
deduction 1 : an amount allowed by tax laws to be subtracted from income in order to decrease the amount of income tax due see also Internal Revenue Code in the Important Laws section compare credit, exclusion, exemption busi·ness deduction : a deduction usually taken from gross income that is allowed for losses or expenses attributable to business activities or to activities engaged in for profit charitable deduction : a deduction allowed for a contribution to a charity usually that is qualified under the tax law (as sections 170 and 2055 of the Internal Revenue Code) de·pen·den·cy deduction : a deduction allowed to be taken in a set amount for a qualified dependent (as under sections 151 and 152 of the Internal Revenue Code) itemized deduction : a deduction for a specifically recorded item that is allowed to be taken from adjusted gross income if the total of such deductions exceeds the standard deduction marital deduction 1 : a deduction allowed under th...
mandate
mandate [Latin mandatum, from neuter of mandatus, past participle of mandare to entrust, enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put] 1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b : mandamus 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : an act by which a person gives another person the power to transact for him or her one or several affairs 3 a : an authoritative command : a clear authorization or direction [the of the full faith and credit clause "National Law Journal"] b : the authorization to act given by a constituency to its elected representative vt man·dat·ed man·dat·ing : to make mandatory or required [the Pennsylvania Constitution s a criminal defendant's right to confrontation "National Law Journal"] ...
represent
represent 1 : to substitute in some capacity for : act the part of, in place of, or for (as another person) usually by legal right: as a : to serve esp. in a legislative body by delegated authority usually resulting from an election b : to provide legal representation to as a lawyer c : to act as the representative of in a class action 2 a : to describe as having a specified character or quality b : to give one's impression and judgment of : state in a manner intended to affect action or judgment ...
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights, a declaration delivered by the Lords and Commons to the Prince and Princess of Orange, and afterwards enacted in Parliament, when they became King and Queen, as 1 W. & M., sess. 2, c. 2. Its Preambles sets forth that King James, by the assistance of evil counsellors, endeavoured 'to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom,' by exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws; by levying money for the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without consent of Parliament; by prosecuting those who petitioned the King, and discouraging petitions; by raising and keeping a standing army in time of peace; by violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament; by violent prosecutions and the causing partial and corrupt jurors to be returned on trials, excessive bail to be taken, excessive fines to be imposed, and cruel punishments to be inflicted; all of which are declared to be illegal; and the ...
Conversion, equitable
Conversion, equitable. It is an established principle that money directed to be employed in the purchase of realty, and realty directed to be sold and turned into money, are considered inequity as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted; and this, in whatever manner the direction is given; whether by will, or contract, marriage articles, settlement, or otherwise; and whether the money is actually deposited, or only covenanted to be paid, or whether the land is actually conveyed, or only agreed to be conveyed, Fletcher v. Ashburner, (1779) 1 Bro CC 497; 1 W&TLC. This principle is governed by the doctrine of equity, that that which ought to be done shall be deemed as actually done.The property thus equitably transmuted by anticipation will possess all the qualities, incidents, and peculiarities of that kind of property into which it is destined to be changed. See 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74, s. 71.But the beneficiary, or all the beneficiaries together, provided they ...
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