Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill. The bowl remained in the custody of the society until last December, when it was abstracted by the present defendants after the passage of a resolution giving it to the president of the senior class, which, it is now claimed by the plaintiffs, was invalid - first, because no quorum voted upon it; and, second, because it was not in the power of a majority of the society to vote its property to themselves or to any one of their number. The defendants' counsel urged chiefly that the bill should be dismissed because it was too frivolous to be entitled...
...meeting of the Pierian Sodality on Saturday there was no quorum, and consequently no election of officers occurred...
...acknowledge the action of the assembly, the regent deciding it unconstitutional, upon technical grounds. And so the government still exists, - a hollow form supported by the officers of the university. A recent announcement of the president, calling a special meeting of the General Assembly, failed to bring together a quorum...