Definition of Quorom
Quorum, the number of the members of a governing body required by
law to give legality to any transaction in the name of it.
- Wikipedia
Quo"rum (kwō"rŭm), n. [L.,
of whom, gen. pl. of qui who, akin to E. who. See the
Note below.] Such a number of the officers or members of any body
as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a
quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional
quorum was not present.
&fist; The term arose from the Latin words, Quorum aliquem
vestrum . . . unum esse volumus (of whom we wish some one
of you to be one), which were used in the commission formerly issued
to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was
directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the
presence of one or more of certain justices specially designated.
Justice of the peace and of the quorum designates a class of
justices of the peace in some of the United States.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to
have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United
States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on
Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of
Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The number of members required for a group to officially conduct business and to cast binding votes, often but not necessarily a majority or supermajority.
We can discuss the issue tonight, but cannot vote until we have a quorum.
quorum - The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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