Plurality
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In the law of elections, the candidate who receives more votes than -any other one, but not as many as all others, is said to have a plurality of votes, or a plurality vote. In ecclesiastical law, plurality means the holding two, three, or more benefices by the same incumbent; and he is called a pluralist. Pluralities are now abolished, except in certain cases.
2 Steph. Com. 691, 692.