Tie

n. When, at an election, neither candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, but each has the same number, there is said to be a "tie." So when the number of votes cast in favor of any measure, in a legislative or deliberative body, is equal to the number cast against it.

See Wooster v. Mullins, 64 Conn. 340, 30 AU.

144, 25 In R. A. 694 v. To bind. "The parson is not tied to find the parish clerk."

1 Leon. 94.