which are to be found in the older reports and treatises on Election Law. These decisions are seldom based on any legal principle, and to quote them only serves to encumber the text and embarrass the reader. At the present day, it is not unusual for Committees to desire the counsel to confine themselves to the citation of the decisions of the Superior Courts. The Author trusts that the present work, in which he has endeavoured to comprise in one volume the whole of the law relating to Elections and the trial of Controverted Elections, may prove of service. The subject of the "Registration of Electors" has been intentionally omitted. The enactments which have made the register conclusive of the continuance of the qualification, and have limited the power of Committees to open the register, have had the effect of practically excluding from the consideration of Election Committees all questions relating to the right of any person to be upon the register. TEMPLE, May, 1857. |