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Casting vote
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Casting voteLegislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the casting vote then decides the question.
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Legislation
Written and approved laws. Also known as "statutes" or "acts." In constitutional law, one would talk of the "power to legislate" or the "legislative arm of government" referring to the power of political bodies (eg: house of assembly, Congress, Parliament) to write the laws of the land.
Vote
Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
President
An officer of a company who is to direct the manner in which business is to be transacted. From the decision of the president there is an appeal to the body over which he presides.
Speaker
The presiding officer of the house of representatives of the United States is so called. The presiding officer of either branch of the state legislatures generally bears this name.
Assembly
The union of a number of persons in the same place.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Members
English law. Places where a custom-house has been kept of old time, with officers or deputies in attendance; and they are lawful places of exportation or importation.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
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Castigatory
Punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool.
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Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
Cash-book
Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same thing ought to be made under the proper dates, in the journal. The object of the cash-book is to afford a constant facility to ascertain the true state of a man's cash.
Cassation
French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled.
Cassetur breve
Practice. That the writ be quashed. This is the name of a judgment sometime sentered against a plaintiff when he cannot prosecute his writ with effect, in consequence of some allegation on the defendant's part.
Castigatory
Punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool.
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Casual
What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue's of the government, are those which are contingeut or uncertain.
Casual ejector
Pratice, ejectment. A person, supposed to come upon-land casually, who turns out the lessee of the person claiming the possession against the actual tenant or occupier of the land.
Casuproviso
Practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life.
Casus foedoris
When two nations have formed a treaty of alliance, in anticipation of a war or other difficulty with another, and it is required to determine the case in which the parties must act in consequence of the alliance, this is called the casus foederis, or case of alliance.
Casus fortuitus
A fortuitous case; an uncontrollable accident an act of God.
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Legislation
Written and approved laws. Also known as "statutes" or "acts." In constitutional law, one would talk of the "power to legislate" or the "legislative arm of government" referring to the power of political bodies (eg: house of assembly, Congress, Parliament) to write the laws of the land.
Vote
Suffrage; the voice of an individual in making a choice by many. The total number of voices given at an election; as, the presidential vote.
President
An officer of a company who is to direct the manner in which business is to be transacted. From the decision of the president there is an appeal to the body over which he presides.
Speaker
The presiding officer of the house of representatives of the United States is so called. The presiding officer of either branch of the state legislatures generally bears this name.
Assembly
The union of a number of persons in the same place.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Members
English law. Places where a custom-house has been kept of old time, with officers or deputies in attendance; and they are lawful places of exportation or importation.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
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Castigatory
Punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool.
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Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
Cash-book
Commerce, accounts. One in which a merchant or trader enters an account of all the money, or paper moneys he receives or pays. An entry of the same thing ought to be made under the proper dates, in the journal. The object of the cash-book is to afford a constant facility to ascertain the true state of a man's cash.
Cassation
French law. A decision which emanates from the sovereign authority, and by which a sentence or judgment in the last resort is annulled.
Cassetur breve
Practice. That the writ be quashed. This is the name of a judgment sometime sentered against a plaintiff when he cannot prosecute his writ with effect, in consequence of some allegation on the defendant's part.
Castigatory
Punishments. An engine used to punishwomen who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool.
Casting vote
Casual
What happens fortuitously what is accidental as, the casual revenue's of the government, are those which are contingeut or uncertain.
Casual ejector
Pratice, ejectment. A person, supposed to come upon-land casually, who turns out the lessee of the person claiming the possession against the actual tenant or occupier of the land.
Casuproviso
Practice. A writ of entry given by the statute of Gloucester when a tenant in dower aliens in fee or for life.
Casus foedoris
When two nations have formed a treaty of alliance, in anticipation of a war or other difficulty with another, and it is required to determine the case in which the parties must act in consequence of the alliance, this is called the casus foederis, or case of alliance.
Casus fortuitus
A fortuitous case; an uncontrollable accident an act of God.
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