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suffrage

suffrage [Latin suffragium vote, political support, from suffragari to support with one's vote] 1 : a vote in deciding a controverted question

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates The term

Bargain for votes

Bargain for votes, a bargain for the purposes of this s. does not mean that the candidate or his agent makes

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Treating

elected, or for being elected, or for corruptly influencing any person to give or refrain from giving his vote, or on account of having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from

Shares, means shares in the share capital of a company carrying voting rights and includes--(i) any security which entitles the holder to receive shares with voting rights; (ii) stock except where a distinction between stock and...

trust

trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from...

Local board

were elected by open voting of the owners and ratepayers, a property qualification being required for membership, each voter having from one to six votes, in proportion to the property occupied by him; but the (English) Local

Unconditionally and beneficially

Unconditionally and beneficially, the words 'un-conditionally' and 'beneficially' underline the fact that no person who holds a share or shares not for his own benefit but for the benefit of another and who does not exercise...

impeach

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

War Office

by three. There is to be 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.

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