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Rules of procedure

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Rules made by a legislative body concerning the mode and manner of conducting its business, and for the purpose of making an orderly and proper disposition of the matters bsfore it, such as ruies prescribing what committees shall be appointed, on what subjects they shall act, what shall be the daily order in which business shall be taken up, and in what order certain motions sbali be received and acted on.

Hei-skell v. Baltimore, 65 Md. 125, 4 Atl. il6, 57 Am. Rep. 308; Heyker v. McLaughlin. 106 Ky. 509, 50 S. W. 859.