See also:

• QUORUM (Lat. for " of whom ")

QUORUM (See also:

• LAT

Lat. for " of whom ")  , in its See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense, a See also:

• TERM

term denoting the number of members of any See also:

• BODY

body of persons whose presence is requisite in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order that business may be validly transacted by the body or its acts be legal . The term is de-rived from the wording of the See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission appointing justices of the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace which appoints them all, jointly and severally to keep the peace in the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county named . It also runs— " We have also assigned you, and every two or more of you (of whom [See also:

• QUORUM (Lat. for " of whom ")

quorum], any one of you the aforesaid A, B, C, D, &c., we will shall be one) our justices to inquire the truth more fully," whence the justices so-named were usually called justices of the quorum . The term was afterwards applied to all justices, and subsequently by transference, to the number of members of a body necessary for the transaction of its business . No general See also:

• RULE

rule can be laid down as to the number of members of which a quorum should consist; its See also:

• SIZE

size is usually prescribed by definite enactment or See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision; it is entirely a See also:

• MATTER

matter for self-constituted bodies as to what their quorum shall be, and it usually depends on the size of the body . In bodies which owe their existence to an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of the legislature, the necessary quorum is usually fixed by See also:

• STATUTE

statute . In See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, in the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House of Lords, three See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a quorum, though on a See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division there must be See also:

• THIRTY

thirty members See also:

• PRESENT

present . In the House of See also:

• COMMONS

Commons, See also:

• FORTY

forty members, including the See also:

• SPEAKER

Speaker, form a quorum . The quorum of a See also:

• STANDING

standing See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of the House of Lords is seven, and of the House of Commons, twenty .