The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Preventions Acts, 1883 and 1895

THE

CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES
PREVENTION ACTS, 1883 AND 1895.

[46 & 47 VICT. c. 51, AND 58 & 59 VICT. c. 40.]

WITH NOTES OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS, AND WITH SHORT
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS ON ELECTION PETITIONS
UNDER THESE ACTS, ELECTION CONTESTS UNDER
THESE ACTS, THE GENERAL POLICY AND
EFFECT OF THESE ACTS AND THE
PARLIAMENTARY COMMON
LAW OF AGENCY.

ERNEST ARTHUR JELF, M.A.,

OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE INNER TEMPLE;

An Election Agent under these Acts for a County Division during the
last General Election.

* Kemp coronabitur qui non legitime certaverit.”

SWEET AND

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

MAXWELL, LIMITED,

3, CHANCERY LANE,

Law Publishers.

ΤΟ

R. H. SUTTON NELTHORPE, ESQ.,

OF SCAWBY HALL,

THE CHAIRMAN IN THE BRIGG DIVISION,

BY WHOSE SIDE AND WITH WHOSE INVALUABLE
ASSISTANCE THE AUTHOR FOUGHT THE

ELECTION OF 1900 AND CARRIED

OUT THE PROVISIONS OF

THESE ACTS.

AIMBOLIAD

PREFACE.

SINCE the last edition I have myself served the office of an election agent, and it was my duty in that office to provide for the organisation of the election expenses and for the employment and, where lawful, for the remuneration of somewhere about a hundred persons in connection with the work of the election. The result of all this has been somewhat to modify some of the opinions expressed in the last edition.

Chapter I. is new. The form for an election petition is much fuller than any which I have seen elsewhere; and the reasons why so full a form is to be preferred appear from the chapter itself. The abstract of the actual particulars delivered in the Montgomery Boroughs case of 1892-made by me at the time-is another feature special to this work, which it is hoped may be useful to practitioners. Chapter II. is also new, and is written from an Election Agent's point of view.

Chapter III. has substantially appeared in the

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previous editions, and is a reprint, by permission,
from articles which I wrote in the first instance for
the Law Times. Chapter IV. contains an analysis,
relegated in the previous editions to a note, of the
authorities relating to "agency" as understood in
election petitions-an original analysis of a most
peculiar branch of law-being the most important
and perhaps the most difficult portion of election
law.

The decisions of the Courts in the interim
concerning the Acts of 1883 and 1895 will be
found duly noted under the appropriate sections.

9, KING'S BENCH WALK,

TEMPLE.

ERNEST A. JELF.