American Manual of Parliamentary Law, Or, The Common Law of Deliberative Assemblies: Systematically Arranged for the Use of the Parliamentarian and the NoviceHarper & Brothers, 1882 - 140 pages |
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Adjourn adopted amendment appointed Assembly Term Auxiliary Questions ballot BUSINE called chair chairman clerk Close Debate COM'TEE Commit committee decided decision DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES election entitled filling blanks floor INC DEBA 85 INCI 7 X INCI X DEBAT Incidental Questions insert interrupted Main Question majority vote membership ment motion to Close moved or re-introduced named offence officers Order of Business Original Question paper Parliamentary Law pending person Postpone Preferred Questions president PRIVIL 63 Privileged Questions proceedings proper motion Quasi Contract Ques QUEST 56 Questions of Order Questions of Privilege quorum rank reconsidered Renewal Repeal Repress require RESULTANT QUESTIONS Session Period Sitting Special Order Stage of Business subject of business Subjects of Privilege SUBSI 67 SUBSID 67-7 INCI Subsidiary Questions Suspend the Rules Table Take the Yeas taken tellers tion unani unanimous consent unless usually VI PRIVILE 63-6 VII SUBSID 67-7 Viva Voce XI SUGGE Yeas and Nays
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Page 6 - It is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is; that there may be a uniformity of proceeding in business not subject to the caprice of the Speaker or captiousness of the members. It is very material that order, decency, and regularity be preserved in a dignified public body, 2 Hats.
Page 16 - ... 3. The third is where the religious congregation or ecclesiastical body holding the property is but a subordinate member of some general church organization in which there are superior ecclesiastical tribunals with a general and ultimate power of control more or less complete, in some supreme judi.catory over the whole membership of that general organization.
Page 16 - State under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that, whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom or law, have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final, and as binding on them in their application to the case before them.
Page 116 - States to , greeting: You are hereby commanded to deliver to and leave with , if conveniently to be found, or if not, to leave at his usual place of abode, or at his usual place of business in some conspicuous place, a true and attested copy of the within writ of summons, together with a like copy of this precept; and in whichsoever way you perform the service, let it be done at least days before the appearance day mentioned in the said writ of summons.
Page 16 - If there are within the congregation officers in whom are vested the power of such control, then those who adhere to the acknowledged organization, are entitled to the use of the property.
Page 16 - In such cases where there is a schism which leads to a separation into distinct and conflicting bodies, the rights of such bodies to the use of the property must be determined by the ordinary principles which govern voluntary associations. If the principle of government in such cases is that the majority rules, then the numerical majority of members must control the right to the use of the property.
Page 128 - To an enlargement of mind, capable of embracing the most comprehensive subjects, must be added the faculty of descending with precision to the most minute ; to a tenacious respect for forms, a liberal regard for principles ; to habits of laborious research, powers of prompt and instant decision ; to a jealous affection for the privileges of the house, an awful sense of its duties ; to a firmness that can resist solicitation, a suavity of nature that...
Page 66 - The question is, Shall the decision of the chair stand as the decision of the convention...
Page 15 - ... without an express power in the charter, no man can be disfranchised unless he has been guilty of some offence, which either affects the interests of good government of the corporation, or is indictable by the law of the land.
Page 40 - If there is no objection the minutes will stand approved as read" [or "corrected," if any corrections have been made]. He announces as the next business in order, "the hearing of the report of the committee on the Constitution and By-Laws." The chairman of the committee, after addressing "Mr. Chairman...