The Law of the Hustings and Poll Booths, Being a Manual of the Law Governing the Successive Stages of a Contested Election |
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Every person who shall advance or pay , or cause to be paid , any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money , or any part thereof , shall be expended in bribery at any election , or who shall knowingly ...
Every person who shall advance or pay , or cause to be paid , any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money , or any part thereof , shall be expended in bribery at any election , or who shall knowingly ...
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Page 77 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, give or procure, or agree to give or procure, or offer, promise, or promise to procure or to endeavour to procure, any office, place, or employment to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting...
Page 81 - ... upon or against any person in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting...
Page 78 - Provided always, that the aforesaid enactment shall not extend or be construed to extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid for or on account of any legal expenses bond fide incurred at or concerning any election.
Page 84 - ... intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or...
Page 10 - ... every person so offending shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, one moiety thereof to the informer, and the other moiety thereof to...
Page 78 - Bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly: 1. Every Voter who shall, before or during any Election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other Person on his Behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any Money, Gift, Loan, or valuable Consideration, Office, Place, or Employment, for himself or for any other Person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any Election: 2.
Page 81 - Every Candidate at an Election, who shall corruptly by himself, or by or with any Person, or by any other Ways or Means on his behalf, at any Time, either before, during, or after any Election, directly or indirectly give or provide, or cause to be given or provided, or shall be accessory to...
Page 78 - ... receive any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting, or having induced any other person to vote or to refrain from voting at any election...
Page 78 - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election : 5. Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 59 - ... then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said...
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| Pealkiri | The Law of the Hustings and Poll Booths, Being a Manual of the Law Governing the Successive Stages of a Contested Election |
| Autor | George Wingrove Cooke |
| Publisher | V. & R. Stevens and G.S. Norton, 1857 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 sept. 2006 |
| Length | 120 pages |
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