Parliamentary law. A body that transacts business according to parliamentary law. • A deliberative assembly typically has several distinctive characteristics: (1) it is a group of people who meet all together to propose, discuss, and possibly vote on courses of action to be undertaken in the group’s name; (2) participants are free to use their […]
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general assembly. 1. The name of the legislative body in many states. 2. (cap.) The deliberative body of the United Nations. 3. CONVENTION(4).
minutes. 1. Memoranda or notes of a transaction or proceeding. 2. Parliamentary law. The formal record of a deliberative assembly’s proceedings, approved (as corrected, if necessary) by the assembly. — Also termed journal; record; report. See DISPENSE WITH THE READING OF THE MINUTES; SPREAD UPON THE MINUTES . “The minutes of an organization include a
An agenda that a deliberative assembly has adopted, or that has been adopted for a deliberative assembly by an officer or board charged with setting such an agenda.
A committee of the whole over which the deliberative assembly’s regular chair presides.
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lay on the table. Parliamentary law. 1. To postpone the consideration of (a matter before a deliberative assembly); TABLE. • Some parliamentary writers prefer the form “to lay on the table” and disapprove of the form “to table.” 2. BrE.To schedule for consideration.
resolution. 1. Parliamentary law. A main motion that formally expresses the sense, will, or action of a deliberative assembly (esp. a legislative body). • A resolution is a highly formal kind of main motion, often containing a preamble, and one or more resolving clauses in the form, “Resolved, That….” concurrent resolution. A resolution passed by
A periodic meeting held at a time set in an organization’s governing documents or under a standing rule or schedule that the deliberative assembly has adopted. — Also termed stated meeting. Cf. special meeting.
rise, vb. 1. (Of a court) to adjourn finally at the end of a term. 2. (Of spectators and participants in a courtroom) to stand when the judge enters or exits. 3. (Of a court) to take a recess or temporary break, as at the end of a day. 4. Parliamentary law. (Of a special