Quo"rum (kwō"rŭm), n. [L., of whom, gen. pl. of qui who, akin to E. who. See the Note
below.]
Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of
Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.
&fist; The term arose from the Latin words, Quorum aliquem
vestrum . . . unum esse volumus (of whom we wish
some one of
you to be one), which were used in the commission formerly issued to justices of the peace
in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more of certain justices specially designated. Justice of the peace and
of the quorum designates a class of justices of the peace
in some of the United States.
Hear it pronounced