REGULAR ELECTION
A general, usual, or stated election. When applied to elections, the terms “regular” and”general” are used interchangeably and synonymously. The word “regular” is used in reference to a general election occurring throughout
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A general, usual, or stated election. When applied to elections, the terms “regular” and”general” are used interchangeably and synonymously. The word “regular” is used in reference to a general election occurring throughout
An election for a particular emergency; out of the regularcourse; as one held to fill a vacancy arising by death of the incumbent of the office.Electiones fiant rite et libere sine in-
Dependent upon choice; bestowed or passing by election. Also pertainingor relating to elections; conferring the right or power to vote at elections.
The right of voting at public elections; the privilege of qualified voters to cast their ballots for the candidates they favor at elections authorized by law.Parks v. State, 100 Ala. 031. 13
One which is to be tilled by popular election. Rev. Laws Mass. 1902, p. 104, c. 11,
A duly qualified voter; one who has a vote in the choice of any officer; aconstituent. Appeal of Cusick, 130 Pa. 459. 20 Atl. 574, 10 L. R. A. 228; Bergevin v.Curtz,
Persons chosen by the people at a so-called “presidential election,” to elect a president and vice-president of the United States.
Pertaining to electors or elections; composed or consisting of electors.
The body of princes formerly entitled to elect the emperor of Germany.Also a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electorschosen by the people to elect the president
To put to death by passing through the body a current of electricityof high power. This term, descriptive of the method of inflicting the death penalty onconvicted criminals in some of the
A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel, c. 1.
Possessions belonging to the church. Blount.
The place In a religious house where the common alms weredeposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.In old English law. The aumeric, aumbry, or ambry; words still used in
In old English law. An almoner, or chief ollicer, who received theeleemosynary rents aul gifts, and In due method distributed them to pious andcharitable uses. Cowell; Wharton.The name of an officer (lord
Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable.
See CORPORATIONS.
In the civil law. Accurately ; with discrimination. Veazie v. Williams, 3 Storv. 611, 636, Fed. Cas. No. 16,907
(Lat. lie has chosen.) This is the name, in English practice, of a writ ofexecution first given by the statute of Westm. 2 (13 Edw. I. c. IS) either upon ajudgment for
The forces of nature. The elements are the means through which God acts, and “damages by the elements” means the same thing as “damages by the act of God.” Polack v. Pioche,
As applied to a candidate for an elective office, this term means capableof being chosen ; the subject of selection or choice; and also implies competency tohold the office if chosen. Demaree