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Home Dictionary Name: vice presidency Page: 2 Page 2 of about 27 results (0.004 seconds)Affirmation
Affirmation, a solemn declaration without oath; the being allowed to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo. 4, c. 32, s. 1; 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 49), and to Separatists (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 82), but was afterwards extended to all persons objecting to take an oath. See (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 125), s. 20; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 66 (criminal proceedings); 30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, s. 8 (jurors); and particularly the (English) Evidence Amendment Act, 1869, s. 4 (extended to evidence before arbitrators and others by 33 & 34 Vict. c. 49, s. 1), under which persons having no religious belief were first allowed to affirm, the former statutes having applied only to persons prevented by a religious belief from swearing.The Act of 1869, however, did not apply to promissory oaths, e.g., to the oath directed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866, as amended by the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, to be taken by Members of Parliament...
Panchayat Samiti
Panchayat Samiti, means a Panchayat Samiti Constituted under the Zilla Parishads Act, The Maharashtra Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samitis Temporary Postponement of Elections (of the President, Vice-President and Chairmen of Subject Committees of certain Zill Parishads and Chairman and Deputy Chairman of certain Panchayat Samitis due to ensuing General Elections to the State Legislative Assembly and certain Other Election) Act, 2004, s. 2(a)....
Zilla Parishads Act
Zilla Parishads Act, means the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961. [Maharashtra Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samitis Temporary Postponement of Elections (of the President, Vice-President and Chairmen of Subject Committees of Certain Zilla Parishads and Chairmen and Deputy-Chairmen of Certain Panchayat Samitis Due to Ensuing General Elections to the State Legislative Assembly and Certain Other Elections) Act, 2004, s. 2(c)]...
Zilla Parishad
Zilla Parishad, means a Zilla Parishad constituted under the Zilla Parishads Act. [Maharashtra Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samitis Temporary Post-ponement of Elections (of the President, Vice-President and Chairmen of Subject Committees of Certain Zilla Parishads and Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen of Certain Panchayat Samitis Due to Ensuing General Elections to the State Legislative Assembly and Certain Other Election) Act, 2004, s. 2(b)]...
ex officio
ex officio [Late Latin] : by virtue or because of an office [the Vice President serves ex officio as president of the Senate] [an ex officio member of the board] ...
impeach
impeach [Anglo-French empecher, from Old French empeechier to hinder, from Late Latin impedicare to fetter, from Latin in- + pedica fetter, from ped- pes foot] 1 : to charge with a crime or misconduct ;specif : to charge (a public official) before a competent tribunal (as the U.S. Senate) with misconduct in office see also Article I and Article II of the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: Impeachment is the first step in removing an officer from office. The president, vice president, and other federal officers (as judges) may be impeached by the House of Representatives. (Members of Congress themselves are not removed by being impeached and tried, but rather are expelled by a two-thirds majority vote in the member's house.) The House draws up articles of impeachment that itemize the charges and their factual bases. The articles of impeachment, once approved by a simple majority of the House members, are then submitted to the Senate, thereby impeaching the officer. The Senate th...
high crime
high crime : a crime of infamous nature contrary to public morality but not technically constituting a felony ;specif : an offense that the U.S. Senate deems to constitute an adequate ground for removal of the president, vice president, or any civil officer as a person unfit to hold public office and deserving of impeachment ...
electoral college
electoral college often cap E&C : a body of electors ;specif : the body of electors chosen from each state to elect the president and vice president of the U.S. NOTE: Under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, each state chooses electors in the same number that the state has senators and representatives. The electors have the discretion to choose the candidate they vote for, but in practice the electors vote for the candidate that wins the most votes in their respective states. In all the states except Maine, the candidate that wins a plurality of the popular votes wins all of the state's electoral votes. ...
devolve
devolve de·volved de·volv·ing [Medieval Latin devolvi, passive of devolvere to roll down, from Latin, from de down, away + volvere to roll] 1 : to pass by transfer or succession [the estate devolved to a distant cousin] 2 : to fall or be passed usually as an obligation or responsibility [in case of the removal of the President from office, or of his…inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall on the Vice President "U.S. Constitution art. II"] ...
sale
sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also : the contract of such a transaction see also short compare barter, donation, exchange, gift absolute sale : a sale that takes place without conditions and with title simply passing to the buyer upon payment of the price compare conditional sale in this entry bulk sale : a sale not in the ordinary course of the seller's business of more than half of the seller's inventory called also bulk transfer NOTE: Article 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code governs bulk sales. Under section 6-102(c), in order for a sale to be considered a bulk sale, the buyer (or an auctioneer or liquidator if the sale is an auction) must have been given notice or been able upon reasonable inquiry to have had notice that the seller will not afterward continue to operate the same or a similar kind of business. cash sale : a sale in which payment must be made in cash NOTE: Under U.C.C. section 2-310, payment must be made ...
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