A Collection of Decisions in the Courts for Revising the Lists of Electors: For the Counties of Berks, the Eastern and Western Divisions of Gloucestershire, Middlesex, the Eastern and Western Divisions of Kent, the Northern Division of Staffordshire, the Eastern Division of Surrey, and Warwickshire : the Cities of London and Westminster : and the Boroughs of Abingdon, Bedford, Birmingham, Chichester, Finsbury, Greenwich, Harwich, Lambeth, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Marlow, Marylebone, Petersfield, Reading, Southwark, Stafford, Stoke-Upon-Trent, and the Tower Hamlets : Together with Some of the Resolutions of the Committees of the House of Commons |
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27th section 31st of July a-year Act of Parliament admitted annum appeared appointment assessed Auton bene gesserit Berks Berkshire borough building burgage cestui que trust chapel church City of Lon claimant claimed to vote clause clerk collector considered contended copyhold Corbett court Coventry R. B. Craig R. B. curtilage decided decision deed easement election elector entitled to vote evidence expunged Finsbury franchise freehold ground held Joint occu land-tax landlord lease list of voters liveryman Middlesex minister Nonpayment Notes of Revision notice of objection objector occupied opinion overseers owner paid parish parish of St party payment person poor-rates possession premises proprietors proved qualification question rate-book receipt Reform Act registered rents and profits residence revising barrister right to vote Rowcroft scot and lot shareholders shares South Derby Staffordshire statute Stoke-upon-Trent sufficient Tamlyn tenant tion trustees William William Beatty Wokingham words
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Page 304 - That the knights of the shires to be chosen within the same realm of England to come to the Parliaments of our lord the King hereafter to be holden, shall be chosen in every county of the realm of England, by people dwelling and resident in the same counties, whereof every one of them shall have free land or tenement to the value of forty shillings by the year at the least above all charges...
Page 147 - Jurisdiction as without; and that no Misnomer or inaccurate Description of any Person, Place, or Thing named or described in any Schedule to this Act annexed, or in any List or Register of Voters, or in any Notice required by this Act, shall in anywise prevent or abridge the Operation of this Act with respect to such Person, Place, or Thing, provided that such Person, Place, or Thing shall be so denominated in such Schedule, List, Register, or Notice as to be commonly understood...
Page 34 - ... of March, 1831, otherwise than in respect of birth or servitude, or who shall hereafter be elected, made, or admitted a burgess or freeman, otherwise than in respect of birth or servitude, shall be entitled to vote as such in any such election for any city or borough as aforesaid, or to be so registered as aforesaid...
Page 423 - Value as would, according to the provisions herein-after contained, confer on him the Right of voting for any City or Borough, whether he shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such City or Borough in respect thereof.
Page 301 - I have no difficulty in saying, that wherever a perpetual inheritance is granted, which arises out of lands, or is in any way connected with, or, as it is emphatically expressed by Lord Coke, exercisable within it, it is that sort of property the law denominates real.
Page 397 - Shire for or by reason of any Trust Estate or Mortgage, unless such Trustee or Mortgagee be in actual Possession or Receipt of the Rents and Profits of the same Estate, but that the Mortgagor or Cestuique Trust in Possession shall and may vote for the same Estate notwithstanding such Mortgage or Trust.
Page 89 - April then next preceding: provided also, that no such person shall be so registered in any year unless he shall have resided for six calendar months next previous to the last day of July in such year...
Page 270 - ... so situate as aforesaid, it shall be deemed to be within the least populous of such parishes or townships, according to the last census for the time...
Page 385 - 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 27 - And if any person hereby made incapable of voting, as aforesaid, shall nevertheless presume to give his vote during the time he shall hold, or within...