Parliamentary law. 1. The chair’s declaration that a deliberative assembly has properly convened and is ready for business. — Also termed convocation. 2. The chair’s request that a member follow the applicable rules or observe appropriate decorum. See DECORUM.
call for the regular order. See call for the orders of the day under CALL(1).
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recall of mandate， writ or order 指示、令状或命令的撤销指上诉法院撤销其签发的指示、令状或命令。
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Parliamentary law. A demand that the meeting proceed according to its order of business. — Also termed call for the regular order.
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warrant recall, n. A procedure for removing from government computers information about canceled warrants in order to avoid repeated or mistaken arrests.
A legislative body’s order compelling each absent member’s attendance, usu. instructing that the sergeant-at-arms arrest and present each absentee.
recall of mandate. The extraordinary action by an appellate court of withdrawing the order it issued to the trial court upon deciding an appeal, usu. after the deadline has passed for the losing party to seek a rehearing. • Because this action can interfere with trial-court proceedings on remand, and also because it clouds the
Slang. A divorce obtained by parties who are not physically present or domiciled in the jurisdiction purporting to grant the divorce. • Such a divorce is not recognized in the United States because of the absence of the usual bases for jurisdiction.
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convocation. 1. CONVENTION(4). 2. See call to order under CALL(1). 3. See provincial synod under SYNOD.
decenary. Hist. A town or district consisting of ten freeholding families. • A freeholder of the decenary (a decennarius) was bound by frankpledge to produce any wrongdoer living in the decenary. — Also spelled decennary. — Also termed decenna; tithing. Cf. FRANKPLEDGE. “The civil division of the territory of England is into counties, of those