The History of the Cases of Controverted Elections: Which Were Tried and Determined During the First and Second Sessions of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, 15 & 16 Geo. III.

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Page 405 - be it enacted by the King's mod excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and 'confent of the Lords fpiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and after the firft day of Auguft 1785, every poll which fhall be demanded at any
Page 432 - thereof, to recover the fame by action of debt, in any of his Majefty's courts of record at Weftminfter; in which action it fhall be fufficient for the plaintiff or plaintiffs to declare that the defendant or defendants is or are indebted to him or them (in the fum to which the cofts and expences,
Page 451 - by the King's rnoft excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that from and after the palling of this
Page 321 - his war" rant to the clerk of the Crown, to make out a " new writ, for the electing of two burgefles, to " ferve in this prefent Parliament for the borough
Page 340 - and againft the peace of our faid Lord the King, his crown and dignity: And the faid Attorney General of our faid Lord the King, for our faid Lord the King, gives the court here further to. underftand and be informed, that the faid Richard Smith, being fuch perfon as
Page 436 - George the Second, intituled. An act for the more effectual preventing bribery and corruption in the elections of members to ferve in Parliament, that fuch votes fhall be deemed to be legal which have been fo declared by the lad determination in the Houfe of Commons ; which laft determination concerning any county, fhire, city, borough, cinque port, or place,
Page 350 - oftave of the purification of the blefled Virgin Mary, wherefoever he fhall then be in England, by whom the truth of the matter may be the better known, and who are not of the kindred of the faid Richard Smith, to try upon their oath whether the faid Richard Smith be guilty of the premifes aforefaid or not: Becaufe as well the faid
Page 403 - and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the Lords fpiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afiembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid
Page 337 - thereof, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like cafe offending, and againft the peace of our laid Lord the King, his crown and dignity : And the faid
Page 163 - preventing bribery and corruption in the election of members to ferve in Parliament, the term bribery never occurs; and that the preamble begins thus:—" Whereas it is found by experience, " that the laws in being have not been fufficient " to prevent corrupt, and illegal practices in the " election of members to ferve in Parliament; for *

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