when a’committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legis) a-tlve or other body of persons cannot nct un-less a certaln number nt least of them are present, that number is called a “quorum.” Sweet. In the absence of any law or rule fixing the quorum, it consists of a majority of those entitled to act. See Ex parte willcocks, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 409, 17 Am. Dee. 525; State v. wilkesville Tp., 20 ohio St. 293; Heiskell v. Baltimore, 65 Md. 125, 4 Atl. 116, 57 Am. Rep. 308; Snider v. Rlne hart, 18 Colo. 18, 31 Pac. 716
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
