The Representation of the People Act, 1884: With Introduction, Notes, and Index |
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31 Vict 42 Vict amending or affecting bonâ fide borough in respect borough occupation franchise burgage charges payable city or borough claimant clear yearly value confer copyhold counting-house county in respect county or borough day of January day of July deemed demand note dwelling-house election enactments amending entitled to vote freehold full age hereditament household franchise inhabitant occupier Ireland knight or knights lands or tenements last day legal incapacity less lessee or assignee let unfurnished lists of voters lodger qualification marriage settlement member or members members to serve ments name inserted North Curry parish parliamentary borough Parliamentary Registration Act poor rates Provided qualification or franchise quire rate book rated or liable register of voters registered in respect registered to vote rentcharge rents and charges Representation residence right to vote Schedule Scotland seised tenure thereof thousand eight hundred tion twelve calendar months United Kingdom voter in respect
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Page 37 - ... or who shall occupy as tenant any lands or tenements for which he shall be bona fide liable to a yearly rent of not less than fifty pounds, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future parliament for the county, or for the riding, parts, or division of the county, in which such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate...
Page 37 - Every Man shall, in and after the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled to be registered as a Voter, and, when registered, to vote...
Page 34 - ... the unexpired residue, whatever it may be, of any term originally created for a period of not less than sixty years (whether determinable on a life or lives, or not,, of the clear yearly value of not less than 101., over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 59 - January then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon of any day.
Page 66 - ... whether the rate is collected from the owner or occupier, or the owner is liable to the payment of the rate instead of the occupier...
Page 31 - Where a man himself inhabits any dwellinghouse by virtue of any office, service, or employment...
Page 36 - Charges payable out of or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in any future Parliament for the County, or for the Riding, Parts, or Division of the County, in which such Lands or Tenements shall be respectively situate.
Page 16 - Borough, who is qualified as follows: (that is to say,) 1 . Is of full Age, and not subject to any legal Incapacity; and 2. Is on the last Day of July in any Year, and has during the whole of the preceding Twelve Calendar Months been, an Inhabitant Occupier, as Owner or Tenant, of any Dwelling House within the Borough; and 3.
Page 51 - ... for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate of the clear yearly value of not less than 51. over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 34 - ... of the clear yearly value of not less than five pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...