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Point of order

noun

A question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure.

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... first call; greatly cheered by Conservatives when he stood before footlights. Little bit of farce to begin with. ALPHEUS CLEOPHAS rose with JOSEPH. Submitted as point of order that, in Moving Adjournment on Tuesday night, JOSEPH had exhausted his right to speak. House howled. Just as if, Lyceum crowded to see IRVING play Charles the First, JOHNNIE TOOLE came before Curtain and explained ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 20, 1892 • Various

... Representative from the South, it was opposed in debate by prominent Whig members. Henry A. Wise, who five years later supported Mr. Polk for the Presidency, desired to have the resolution peremptorily ruled out on a point of order. Sergeant S. Prentiss, the incomparably brilliant member from Mississippi, attacked it most violently. His impassioned invective did not stop short of personal indignity and insult to Mr. Polk. He denied with emphatic iteration that the Speaker had been "impartial." On the contrary he had been ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

Words linked to "Point of order" : rules of order, parliamentary law, order, parliamentary procedure