Table

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Table

Meaning of Table

A collection of related numbers, values, signs or items of any kind arranged for ease of reference or comparison, often in parallel columns. A synoptical statement . As a verb, in parliamentary law, the term denotes to postpone consideration of a bill, resolution , etc.

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Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Table

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mid-15c., “enter into a list, form into a list or catalogue,” also “provide with food,” from table; this term is also a noun.. In parliamentary sense, 1718, originally “to lay on the (speaker’s) table for discussion;” but in U.S. political jargon it has chiefly the sense of “to postpone indefinitely” (1866) via notion of “lay aside for future consideration.” Related: Tabled; tabling.


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