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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... Peace . Law Journal Reports , Law Reports . Law Times Reports ( New Series ) . Lofft's King's Bench Reports . May's Law and Practice of Parliament . Moody and Robinson's Nisi Prius Reports . O'Malley & Hardcastle's Election Re- ports ...
... Peace . Law Journal Reports , Law Reports . Law Times Reports ( New Series ) . Lofft's King's Bench Reports . May's Law and Practice of Parliament . Moody and Robinson's Nisi Prius Reports . O'Malley & Hardcastle's Election Re- ports ...
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... peace , bar- rister , & c . , & c . , liability of disgrace in profession , s . 38 ( 6-9 ) . ( 6. ) Nullity of vote at election in question , s . 36. This also results from offences at Municipal and other Elections ( s . 37 ) . As above ...
... peace , bar- rister , & c . , & c . , liability of disgrace in profession , s . 38 ( 6-9 ) . ( 6. ) Nullity of vote at election in question , s . 36. This also results from offences at Municipal and other Elections ( s . 37 ) . As above ...
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... peace . And a similar declaration by the By candidate . candidate is to be transmitted at the same time , or within seven days afterwards . But in the case of a candidate being absent from the United Kingdom at the time , this period is ...
... peace . And a similar declaration by the By candidate . candidate is to be transmitted at the same time , or within seven days afterwards . But in the case of a candidate being absent from the United Kingdom at the time , this period is ...
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... peace , who is Reports as to reported to have been guilty , shall , whether he has peace . obtained a certificate or not , be reported , with the evidence , by the Public Prosecutor to the Lord Chancellor , and in such a case , where ...
... peace , who is Reports as to reported to have been guilty , shall , whether he has peace . obtained a certificate or not , be reported , with the evidence , by the Public Prosecutor to the Lord Chancellor , and in such a case , where ...
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... peace . It is a most dangerous practice , and one which ought rarely , if ever , to be resorted to . But anyone who presumes to appoint for himself a number of persons whom he calls private police is answerable , as their master , for ...
... peace . It is a most dangerous practice , and one which ought rarely , if ever , to be resorted to . But anyone who presumes to appoint for himself a number of persons whom he calls private police is answerable , as their master , for ...
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aforesaid amending apply appointed authorised avoid the election Ballot Act ballot box ballot paper behalf Bewdley bribe bribery C. P. Act candidate canvass certificate charges claims clerk committed common law conviction corrupt or illegal corrupt practices costs county or borough Court of Session deemed election agent Election Commissioners Election Court election petition employment enactments entitled exceeding given guilty High Court hiring illegal practice incapacity incurred indictment Ireland Judge justice liable licensed Lord Majesty's Treasury manner members to serve ment municipal election nomination paper notice offence P. E. Act paid Parliamentary Elections Act person petitioner polling districts polling places polling station present presiding officer proceedings procure prosecution Public Prosecutor punishable purpose pursuance quarter sessions relating repealed respondent returning officer Rule Sched schedule Scotland serve in Parliament sub-agent sub-sec thereof tion trial undue influence writ
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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.