Assertion: motion's motion | /r/CapableOf | lay on the table
Facets:
value: to postpone something
type: PURPOSE
value: to kill a motion
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (the book used by most organizations), the subsidiary motion to lay on the table is properly used only when it is necessary to suspend consideration of a main motion in order to deal with another matter that has come up unexpectedly and which must be dealt with before the pending motion can be properly addressed.
text: The use of the motion to lay on the table to kill a motion is improper; instead, a motion to postpone indefinitely should be used.
text: Similarly, it is improper to use the motion to lay on the table to postpone something; a motion to postpone to a certain time should be used in this case.
text: Although the motion to lay on the table is not debatable, the chair can ask the maker of the motion to state his reason in order to establish the urgency and legitimate intent of the motion or the maker can state it on his own initiative.
text: In this book, the motions to lay on the table and to take from the table have the same characteristics as under RONR.
text: The differences between the two motions are that the motion to take from the table is used after an item has been placed on the desk by a previous use of a motion to lay on the table and the motion is given a preference over new main motions offered at the same time.
text: Subsidiary motions, except to lay on the table, the previous question, and postpone indefinitely, may be amended.
text: They yield to privileged motions, and generally to the motion to lay on the table.