Legal Definition and Related Resources of Quorum
Meaning of Quorum
That minimum number of persons required to be present in order for any assembly such as a committee , board of directors, shareholders or other body of persons, to legally transact business .
Quorum Alternative Definition
Used substantively, quorum signifies the number of persons belonging tc* a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body, required to transact business. There is a difference between an act done by a definite number of persons, and one performed by an indefinite number. In the first case, a majority is required to constitute a quorum, unless the law expressly directs that another number may make one. 88 Pa. St. 42; 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 394; 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 402. In the latter case, any number who may be present may act, the majority of those present having, as in other cases, the right to act. 1 Barn. & C. 492. In the absence of special provision, a majority is a quorum (12 Mete. [Mass.] 99; 13 Ind. 581), but sometimes the law requires a greater number than a bare majority to form a quorum. In such case, no quorum is present until such a number convene. In the absence of a rule of procedure to the contrary, the presence of a quorum in a legislative body can only be ascertained from the votes recorded on the particular matter submitted (117 N. C. 158) ; but a rule authorizing the presiding ofiicer to count members present and not voting to make up a quorum is within the power of a legislative body (144 U. S. 1).
Synonyms of Quorum
noun
- abundance
- adequacy
- adequateness
- ampleness
- completeness
- enough
- full measure
- legal minimum
- plentifulness
- plenty
- plenum
- quota
- sufficience
- sufficiency
- sufficient number
- sufficient quantity Associated Concepts: absence of quorum
- full quorum
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Quorum in Voting Law
Definition of Quorum in the context of the United States election law: Number or percentage of votes or members needed for a vote or deliberations to be valid.
A quorum is a minimum number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body required in order to conduct business.
Quorum in Voting Law
Definition of Quorum in the context of the United States election law: Number or percentage of votes or members needed for a vote or deliberations to be valid.
A quorum is a minimum number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body required in order to conduct business.
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Concept of “Quorum”
Traditional meaning of quorum in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Of whom; of which; whereof. Justices of the quorum: certain justices of the peace were so named, without the presence of one of whom no other justices could act, in certain cases.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Quorum”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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- Spanish: Quórum
- French: Quorum
- German: Beschlussfähigkeit
- Italian: Quorum
- Portuguese: Quórum
- Polish: Quorum
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