Poll
In relation to a company, a method of voting whereby each member can vote for or against a resolution according to the number of shares which he has. Table A, article 54 states: "subject to any rights or restrictions attached to any shares ...
Poll: To question each juror to hear whether he agrees with the verdict.
Pool: An association of merchants who jointly buy or sell a certain commodity or commodities.
Poll Tax
Another less common means of preventing African Americans from voting was the poll tax. At the time the Constitution was adopted, poll taxes were used as a legitimate means of raising revenue.
Poll
Which one of the following factors would influence your next property purchase the most?
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DEED POLL, contracts. A deed made by one party only is not indented, but polled or shaved quite even, and is, for this reason, called a deed poll, or single deed. Co. Litt. 299, a.
These are as follows: Payment or receipt or contracts to pay or receive money for conveyance of voters to or from the poll, on account of any committee room beyond the number allowed by the act, ...
Such promise may be contained in a deed-poll, or indenture, or be express or implied by law from the terms of the deed; or for the performance of something in futuro, or that something has been done; or in some cases, ...
A poll tax; a tax imposed upon each individual person without regard to his property, business, or other circumstances. See Head-Money Cases, 18 F.R. 139 (1883); 3 Dall. 171; 5 Wheat. 317.
Direct tax; indirect tax.
The challenges to the poll (the members of the venire taken individually) that follow are designed to secure as jurors unbiased persons without special knowledge of the matters in issue. Included are challenges for principal cause, i.e.
1 : a direct uniform tax imposed on each head or person
: See also poll tax<no ~, or other direct, tax shall be laid U.S. Constitution art. I>
2 : a uniform per person payment or fee
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 See also: Person, State, Right, Law, Use
  
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