enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Civil...

    A former version of Chapter IX, contained in the original Rules of Civil Procedure, dealt with appeals from a District Court to a United States Court of Appeals. These rules were abrogated in 1967 when they were superseded by the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, a separate set of rules specifically governing the Courts of Appeals.

  3. Civil procedure in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Procedure_in_the...

    Early federal and state civil procedure in the United States was rather ad hoc and was based on traditional common law procedure but with much local variety. There were varying rules that governed different types of civil cases such as "actions" at law or "suits" in equity or in admiralty; these differences grew from the history of "law" and "equity" as separate court systems in English law.

  4. Section 5 of the Indian Limitation Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_5_of_the_Indian...

    So Section 5 of the Indian Limitation Act, 1963 which strictly prohibits from entertaining any application under this Section before the Executing Court which implies in its words that, “Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908)" as such ...

  5. Administrative Procedure Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act

    The text of the APA can be found under Title 5 of the United States Code, beginning at Section 500. There is a similar Model State Administrative Procedure Act (Model State APA), which was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for oversight of state agencies. [5]

  6. Standing Rules of the United States Senate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rules_of_the...

    Senate rules give committees significant gatekeeping authority over legislation that falls under their jurisdiction, [5] with proposed bills submitted to the relevant committee, which can hold hearings, "mark up" bills, consolidate bills into a "clean bill", or ignore the bill altogether (there exist some workarounds for Senators to circumvent ...

  7. Procedures of the United States House of Representatives

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedures_of_the_United...

    The United States Constitution provides that each "House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings," [1] therefore each Congress of the United States, upon convening, approves its own governing rules of procedure. This clause has been interpreted by the courts to mean that a new Congress is not bound by the rules of proceedings of the previous ...

  8. Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason's_Manual_of...

    Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure, referred to as Mason's Manual, is the official parliamentary authority of most state legislatures in the United States. [1] The Manual covers motions , procedures, vote requirements, the rules of order , principles, precedents, and legal basis behind parliamentary law used by legislatures.

  9. Reconsideration of a motion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconsideration_of_a_motion

    A matter that was voted on could be brought back again through the motion to reconsider.Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), this motion must be made within a limited time after the action on the original motion: either on the same day or in the case of a multi-day session (such as a convention), on the next day within the session in which business is conducted.