The Law and Practice of Election Committees: Being the Completion of A Manual of Parliamentary Election Law ...Butterworths, 1853 - 512 pages |
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Page 531 - ... person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting, at such election shall be deemed guilty of the offence of treating...
Page 581 - By f 2, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive and examine evidence...
Page 659 - NEW COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, in which are interwoven, under a new and original Arrangement of the general Subject, all such parts of the Work of Blackstone as are applicable to the present times ; together with full but compendious Expositions of the Modern Improvements of the Law up to the latest period; the original and adopted Materials being throughout the Work typographically distinguished from each other. By HENRY JOHN STEPHEN, Serjeant at Law.
Page 659 - Thirty-second years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled an Act...
Page 425 - Election ; or if any person by himself, or any person employed by him, doth or shall, by any gift or reward, or by any promise, agreement, or security for any gift or reward, corrupt or procure any person or persons to give his or their vote or votes, or to forbear to give his or their vote or votes, in any such Election...
Page 655 - JK, the sum of £ to be levied on his [or their respective] goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors.
Page 581 - On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding...
Page 595 - hearsay' is used with reference to that which is written, as well as to that which is spoken, and in its legal sense it denotes that kind of evidence which does not derive its value solely from the credit to be given to the witness himself, but rests also in part on the veracity^ and competency of some other person.
Page 655 - Sum of of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be made and levied of his Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, to the Use of our said Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, if he the said CD shall fail in the Condition endorsed.
Page 627 - That the Committee expect that with respect to cases of bribery, which it is intended to bring home to the sitting member, or his agents, the counsel for the petitioners will now state the names of the electors bribed, and those of the persons who actually gave the bribes.