quorum

/kworam/ A majority of the entire body; e.g., a quorum of a state supreme court. The number of members who must be present in a deliberative body before business may be transacted. In both houses of Congress a quorum consists of a majority of those chosen and sworn. Such a number of the members of a body as is competent to transact business in the absence of the other members. The idea of a quorum is that, when that required number of persons goes into a session as a body, such as directors of a corporation, the votes of a majority thereof are sufficient for binding action. Benintendi v. Kenton Hotel, 294 N.Y. 112, 60 N.E.2d 829, 831.

When a committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legislature or other body of persons cannot act unless a certain number at least of them are present, that number is called a "quorum." In the absence of any law or rule fixing the quorum, it consists of a majority of those entitled to act.

quorum praetextu nee auget nee minult sententiam, sed tantum confirmat praemissa

/kworam pratekst(y)uw nek ogant nek min(y)uw9t santensh(iy)am, sed taentam kanfarmat pramisa/ "Quorum praetextu" neither increases nor diminishes a sentence, but only confirms that which went before