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2. Motion (legal) - Wikipedia

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   A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...

3. Motion (parliamentary procedure) - Wikipedia

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   A main motion is a motion that brings business before the assembly. [12] Main motions are made while no other motion is pending. Any of the subsidiary, incidental and privileged motions may be made while the main motion is pending, and in many cases these motions, if passed, will affect the assembly's consideration of the main motion.

4. Amend (motion) - Wikipedia

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   A blank could be created by adopting a motion to create a blank and then members could make suggestions to fill in that blank. This procedure is useful because it allows an unlimited number of suggestions to be voted on as opposed to the limit of allowing only first-order and second-order amendments (i.e. only an amendment to a motion and an ...

5. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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   Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws, which provide the basis for Newtonian mechanics, can be paraphrased as follows: A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, except insofar as it is acted upon by ...

6. List of motions - Wikipedia

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   Appeal (motion) Suspend the rules; Objection to the consideration of a question; Division of a question; Consideration by paragraph or seriatim; Division of the assembly; Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls; Motions relating to nominations; Request to be excused from a duty; Requests and inquiries. Parliamentary inquiry; Request ...

7. Abstention - Wikipedia

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   A "blank voter" has voted, although their vote may be considered a spoilt vote, depending on each legislation, while an abstaining voter has not voted. Both forms (abstention and blank vote) may or may not, depending on the circumstances, be considered to be a protest vote (also known as a "blank vote").