The Parliamentary Elections Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Acts, 1854 to 1883: With Explanatory Notes ...Waterlow Bros. & Layton, 1884 - 439 pages |
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... held in the locality ; and if such appeals are likely to interfere with the regular assize business , the Lord Chancellor may direct them to be heard by the Election Judges on the rota , one of whom shall proceed to the place and hear ...
... held in the locality ; and if such appeals are likely to interfere with the regular assize business , the Lord Chancellor may direct them to be heard by the Election Judges on the rota , one of whom shall proceed to the place and hear ...
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... held not to avoid an election on the ground of its not being done “ in order to be elected , " it being well known how those men would vote ( Bradford , 1 O. & H. 39 ) ; and this , even when the refreshment was supplied at a large ...
... held not to avoid an election on the ground of its not being done “ in order to be elected , " it being well known how those men would vote ( Bradford , 1 O. & H. 39 ) ; and this , even when the refreshment was supplied at a large ...
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... held to avoid the election ( Kidderminster , 2 O. & H. 176 ; cp . Hereford , 1 O. & H. 195 ; North Norfolk , ib . 242 ) . Sec . 1 . or a practice leading to treating . And so , where it was proved that at the previous election large ...
... held to avoid the election ( Kidderminster , 2 O. & H. 176 ; cp . Hereford , 1 O. & H. 195 ; North Norfolk , ib . 242 ) . Sec . 1 . or a practice leading to treating . And so , where it was proved that at the previous election large ...
Page 42
... held for the purpose of deciding their claims , the three candidates binding themselves to abide by the decision . On the occasion of the test ballot , agents of the sitting member gave sums of money and drink to the voters to vote for ...
... held for the purpose of deciding their claims , the three candidates binding themselves to abide by the decision . On the occasion of the test ballot , agents of the sitting member gave sums of money and drink to the voters to vote for ...
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... held by a non - political society ( as the Odd Fellows Benevolent Society , cp . Pontefract , W. & D. 71 ) , though regarded with suspicion , was held by Willes , J. ( following the decision of former Election Committees ) , not to ...
... held by a non - political society ( as the Odd Fellows Benevolent Society , cp . Pontefract , W. & D. 71 ) , though regarded with suspicion , was held by Willes , J. ( following the decision of former Election Committees ) , not to ...
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Page 69 - ... to procure any Money, or valuable Consideration, 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 any Voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such Act as aforesaid, on account of such Voter having voted or refrained from voting at any Election : 2.
Page 93 - 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 44 - ... 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 at any election, or...
Page 97 - ... 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 312 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said nomination or election.
Page 372 - No person shall directly or indirectly induce any voter to display his ballot paper after he shall have marked the same, so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for or against whom he has so marked his vote.
Page 275 - Expenses Acts, 1869 and 1871, shall apply accordingly as if they were herein re-enacted, and in terms made applicable to the above-mentioned costs and sums.
Page 375 - Act, or by reason of any irregularity, if it appears to the tribunal having cognizance of the question that the election was conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in this Act, and that such non-compliance or mistake or irregularity did not affect the result of the election.
Page 429 - Any ballot paper which has not on its back the official mark, or on which votes are given to more candidates than the voter is entitled to vote for, or on which anything, except the said number on the back, is written or marked by which the voter can be identified, shall be void and not counted.
Page 391 - The returning officer, while counting and recording the number of ballot papers and counting the votes, shall keep the ballot papers with their faces upwards, and take all proper precautions for preventing any person from seeing the numbers printed on the backs of such papers.