Casting vote

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CASTING VOTE, legislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the casting vote then decides the question. Dane's Ab. h.t. CASTRATION, crim. law. The act of gelding. When this act is maliciously performed upon a man, it is a mayhem, and punishable as such, although the sufferer consented to it.
2. By the ancient law of England this crime was punished by retaliation, membrum pro membro. 3 Inst. 118. It is punished in the United States generally by fine and imprisonment. The civil law punished it with death. Dig. 48, 8, 4, 2. For the French law, vide Code Penal, art. 316. 3. The consequences of castration, when complete, are impotence and sterility. 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 72.

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The legal basis of the casting vote is found in section 49 of the Constitution Act (BNA Act), 1867.

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But he issued a statement yesterday to explain why he used his casting vote against the government on Tuesday.

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The vote on the Suzuki motion was evenly split in the 25-member committee and the casting vote of Hatoyama, who is from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was decisive in rejecting it.