In the practice of leg-lslative bodies, this is the name given to a Bpecies of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with regard to a given question, mutually agree that they will both be absent from voting, either for a specified period or when a division is had on the particular question. By this mutual agreement a vote is neutralized on each side of the
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
