ROGERS ON ELECTIONS. VOL. I.-REGISTRATION, including the Practice in Registration Appeals, Parliamentary, Municipal, and Local Government; with Appendices of Statutes, Orders in Council, and Forms. Sixteenth Edition. With Addenda of Statutes to 1900. By MAURICE POWELL, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 12mo. Cloth. Price £115. (For Cash, 175.; postage 6d. extra.) "The practitioner will find within these covers everything which he can be expected to know, well arranged and carefully stated.”Law Times. VOL. III.-MUNICIPAL AND OTHER ELECTIONS **This Volume treats of Elections to Municipal "The leading book on the difficult subjects of elections and election petitions."-Law Times. "A very satisfactory treatise on election law.. Journal. "-Solicitors' STEVENS & SONS, Ltd., 119 & 120, Chancery Lane, London. VOL. II. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS & PETITIONS, WITH APPENDICES OF STATUTES, RULES AND FORMS. EIGHTEENTH EDITION. BY C. WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS, B.A., OF LINCOLN'S INN AND THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQUIRE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, Law Publishers. PREFACE. SINCE the last edition of this book there has been no legislation dealing directly with Parliamentary Elections, but the petitions of 1901, although few in number, have been important in principle. In one case (Islington), a hitherto doubtful point, as to what is meant by the close of the poll, was settled, and the effect of transgressions of the law by returning officers was considered. In another case (Cockermouth), the vexed question of what are election expenses received further elucidation. And in the same case and also in the Monmouth case, the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1895, which makes the publication of false statements relating to a candidate, under certain circumstances, an illegal practice, was interpreted. The last case is the only one as yet in which an election has been avoided for such statements, although that was not the only ground for the decision. The passages dealing with when election expenses commence and what they are have been to a great extent re-written in the light of the recent decisions, but the subject cannot yet be considered to be in a satisfactory condition, particularly having regard to the fact that associations not connected with a candidate may spend an unlimited amount in supporting his candidature, or opposing that of his rivals, as long as they spend it in lawful ways. Copies of some of the ballot papers in the case of Woodward v. Sarsons, taken from the Parliamentary Report, No. 162 of 1876, have been added to those in the Cirencester case, and will, it is hoped, be useful to returning officers and to those engaged in re-counts. 250993 |