Note Footnote 2 — Chapter I · OF CERTAIN PRELIMINARY MATTERS.

: [“The term quorum (literally, of whom) is one of the words used in England in the Latin form of the commission to justices of the peace. The part of the document wherein the word occurs reads thus: ‘We have assigned you, and every two or more of you, quorum aliquem vestrum, A, B, C, D, etc., unum esse volumus.—i.e. of whom we will that any of you A, B or C, etc., shall be one.’ This made it necessary that certain individuals, who, in the language of the commission, were said to be of the quorum, should be present during the transaction of business.”—Blackstone’s Commentaries, I. 352.]] Return to text