Count And Count-Out
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
These words refer to the count of the house of commons by the speaker. Forty members, including the speaker, are required to constitute a members are not present he waits till four o'clock, and then counts the house again. If forty members are not then present, he at once adjourns it to the following meeting day. May, Pari. Prac. 219. COUNTER (spelled, also, Compter). The name of two prisons formerly standing in London, but now demolished. They were the Poultry Counter and Wood Street Counter. Cowell; Whish. L. D.; Coke, 4th Inst. 248.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
These words have a technical sense in a count of the house of commons by the speaker,