Hansard

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H0051500 (hăn′sərd)n. The official report of the proceedings and debates of a legislature in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially of the British or Canadian parliament.

[After Luke Hansard (1752-1828), British printer.]

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(ˈhænsɑːd) n1. (Parliamentary Procedure) the official report of the proceedings of the British Parliament2. (Parliamentary Procedure) a similar report kept by other legislative bodies[C19: named after T.C. Hansard (1752–1828) and his son, who compiled the reports until 1889]

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n. the official published report of the debates and proceedings in the British Parliament or similar legislative bodies. [after Luke Hansard (1752–1828) and his descendants, who compiled the reports until 1889]

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Hansard - the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament; "the Canadian Hansard is published in both English and French"minutes, transactions, proceedings - a written account of what transpired at a meeting

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Hansard

(hăn`sərd), name given to the official record of the proceedings of the British Parliament, named after the Hansard family of printers. Luke Hansard (1752–1828) was printer to the House of Commons and published Journals of the House of Commons (1774–1828) based on information from other printed sources. William CobbettCobbett, William
, 1763?–1835, British journalist and reformer. The son of a farm laborer, he ran away from home at 14 and later joined the British army. He resigned in order to expose abuses in the military forces, but, unable to prove his accusations, he fled to France
..... Click the link for more information. began (1804) a series of unofficial reports of the debates that was printed by Luke's son, Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), who took over the enterprise in 1812. The reports were published by the family firm until 1890 and by different contractors until 1909, when the House of Commons instituted a series of official reports. The House of Lords followed suit in 1917, and substantially verbatim daily reports became available. Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, the reports are still generally referred to as Hansard, and the name appears on the title page.

Bibliography

See J. C. Trewin and E. M. King, Printer to the House (1952).

Hansard

1. the official report of the proceedings of the British Parliament 2. a similar report kept by other legislative bodies

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the official report of Parliamentary debates, known by the name of the original publisher, now published by HMSO. While it reflects verbatim what is said in Parliament, until very recently it could not be referred to for the purposes of statutory interpretation.

Since an important decision of the House of Lords reported in 1992, it is now permissible to refer to Hansard in cases of ambiguity.

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noun the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body

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