PROTEST

In Parliamentary Law, is a privilege peculiar to the members of the upper house of parliament of entering(by leave of the house always presumed) their di ent from a motion or resolution agreed to by a majority of the house, together with their reasons for di enting. The paper embodying these reasons of di ent is called a protest, and is entered on the journals. Protests, with the reasons, were first set down, according to Lord Clarendon, in 1641. See Parliament. [s. 1012]