Vote
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
The will of a member of a body, formally manifested towards the decision of a question by the body as a whole, is his vote; and the aggregate of the expressions of the will of the members is the vote of the body. Voting: the act of casting a vote; the proceeding by a body of persons to decide a question by simply ascertaining the preference of each member. Voted: ordered by the preponderance of voices of members of a body; passed by vote. Voted, in a statutory reservation of " all timber and lumber and lands granted or voted," may apply to a legislative resolve reserving timber, &e. European, &o.
By. Co. V. Dunn, 60 Me. 453.
A charge in an indictment for unlawful voting, not that the defendant did " vote," but that he did wilfully and unlawfully "give in his vote," is good. Voting and giving in a vote are precisely synonymous terms. State v. Moore, 27 N. J. L. 105. " A majority of the voters of the coimty," means a majority of those who actually vote. Louisville, &c.
E. R. Co. v. County Court of Davidson, 1 Sneed, 637.
Compare Elector; Majority. The word voters may mean those who have a right to vote for state offices.
State V. Williams, 5 Wis. 308.