Analysis of Recent Statutes Affecting Parliamentary Elections in Scotland: With Appendix Containing the Statutes, and a Digest of Recent Decisions of the Registration Appeal CourtBell and Bradfute, 1885 - 56 pages |
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... LORD IVORY and previous Editors and addi- tional Notes bringing down the Law to the present time . By JAMES BADENACH NICOLSON , Esq . , Advocate . In Two Vols . , demy 4to . Price £ 2 , 2s . no one can look at a page of the edition now ...
... LORD IVORY and previous Editors and addi- tional Notes bringing down the Law to the present time . By JAMES BADENACH NICOLSON , Esq . , Advocate . In Two Vols . , demy 4to . Price £ 2 , 2s . no one can look at a page of the edition now ...
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... Lord Advocate ( Balfour ) for the guidance of those engaged in the work of registration . Until a con- solidating measure can be passed , the adaptation of the Burgh Registration Act , 1856 , with the variations necessary to make it ...
... Lord Advocate ( Balfour ) for the guidance of those engaged in the work of registration . Until a con- solidating measure can be passed , the adaptation of the Burgh Registration Act , 1856 , with the variations necessary to make it ...
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... Lord Advocate to Assessors , & c . , in regard to Registration of Voters , cix No. II . The Burgh Registration Act , 1856 ( 19 & 20 Vict . c . 58 ) . Showing Variations necessary to adapt it to Regis- tration of Voters in Counties , cxi ...
... Lord Advocate to Assessors , & c . , in regard to Registration of Voters , cix No. II . The Burgh Registration Act , 1856 ( 19 & 20 Vict . c . 58 ) . Showing Variations necessary to adapt it to Regis- tration of Voters in Counties , cxi ...
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... LORD ARDMILLAN.- ... Clause 14 is not very accurately expressed ; it is open to construction , and the construction must be reasonable ; and I think its meaning is this : There shall be no division at all of joint property into more ...
... LORD ARDMILLAN.- ... Clause 14 is not very accurately expressed ; it is open to construction , and the construction must be reasonable ; and I think its meaning is this : There shall be no division at all of joint property into more ...
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... Lord Advocate to the officials concerned in the work of registration . Of course , this adaptation is not authoritative , but it has been prepared with great care . Elsewhere ( Nicolson , 129-164 , 165-194 ) we have explained in much ...
... Lord Advocate to the officials concerned in the work of registration . Of course , this adaptation is not authoritative , but it has been prepared with great care . Elsewhere ( Nicolson , 129-164 , 165-194 ) we have explained in much ...
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Page xvi - Every person who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, make use of or threaten to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten to inflict, by himself or any other person, any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm or loss...
Page lxvii - A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part, first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning, or as forming the end, of the portion comprised in the description or citation.
Page xxv - All expenses incurred by or on behalf of a candidate at an election, which are incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election...
Page lxx - Where a man himself inhabits any dwelling-house by virtue of any office, service, or employment, and the dwellinghouse is not inhabited by any person under whom such man serves in such office, service, or employment, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act and of the Representation of the People Acts to be an inhabitant occupier of such dwelling-house as a tenant.
Page 6 - Every man shall, in and after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to vote for a member or members to serve in parliament for a county, who is qualified as follows; (that is to say,) 1. Is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity...
Page l - Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned : Provided that...
Page lxxi - One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a Voter, and, when registered, to vote for a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for a Borough, who is qualified as follows; (that is to say,) 1.
Page 56 - The parties to any proceeding instituted in consequence of adultery, and the husbands and wives of such parties, shall be competent to give evidence in such proceeding : provided that no witness in any proceeding, whether a party to the suit or not, shall be liable to be asked or bound to answer any question tending to show that he or she has been guilty of adultery, unless such witness shall have already given evidence in the same proceeding in disproof of his or her alleged adultery.
Page xciv - ... the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and eight, intituled " An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland...
Page 10 - Premises, but may be different Premises occupied in immediate Succession by such Person during the Twelve Calendar Months next previous to the last Day of July in such Year...