 | William Thomas Roe - Election law - 1818 - 1208 pages
...the case of Cirencester, 21 May, 1(524 (a). — And as to voters continuing present, and not voting at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do. Sect 6. Immaterial that electors have departed without polling, under mistake of right of election.... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals, David James McCord - Law reports, digests, etc - 1822 - 668 pages
...to vote at all. The person who received the nine votes, was held duly elected. Lord Mansfield said, whenever electors are present, and do not vote at...virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do. And Justice Wilmot, in the same case, mentioned the case of Rex vs. Withers, where, out of eleven voters,... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 428 pages
...questions of fact, which were for their decision ; and having quoted the judgment of Lord Mansfield, that "whenever electors are present and do not vote...virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do ;" with which principle agrees one of the rules of the General Assembly itself, familiar to every member,... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...exercise their privilege of voting. " Whenever," says Lord Mansfield, " electors are present, and don't vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do." And, with this principle, agrees one of the rules of the General Assembly itself, which must be familiar... | |
 | Augustus Charles VELEY - Church tax - 1843 - 274 pages
...at all, acquiesced in the election. The words are, that " where electors are present at an election, and do not vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election of those who do." Acquiescence is the ground of that decision. In this Vestry did not the majority... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - Ecclesiastical law - 1848 - 734 pages
...disqualification depends upon a fact which may be unknown to the ' elector, he is entitled to notice. Whenever electors are present, and do not vote at all, they virtually acquifscc in the election nrnlc by those who do. his franchise ; and therefore, however strongly he... | |
 | Henry William Cripps - Ecclesiastical law - 1849 - 310 pages
...Lord Mansfield in the case first cited (Oldknow v. Wainwright, or R. v. Foxcroft, 2 Burr. 1021) : " Whenever electors are present and do not vote at all,...minority voted. In the case of Taylor v. The Mayor, $c. of Bath, (3 Lnders, 324 (o),) the counsel, in argument, took the distinction between not not voting... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Thomas - Forms (Law) - 1849 - 398 pages
...change the majority. A majority of legal voters who choose to vote, always constitute an election. Whenever electors are present and do not vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election. When a majority expressly dissent, but do not vote, the election by the minority is good. 21 Pick.... | |
 | John Monson Carrow - Justices of the peace - 1849 - 802 pages
...EVNSHAM. It wag gaid by Lord Mansfield, in Rex v. Foxcroft (a), " Whenever electors are present and don't vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do." That dictum was recognised and adopted by Lord Denman in delivering judgment in Gosling v. Veley (b).... | |
 | John Monson Carrow, J. Hamerton, T. Allen - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 780 pages
...act. It jvas said by Lord Mansfield, in Rex v. Foxcroft (a), " Whenever electors are present and don't vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do." That dictum was recognised and adopted by Lord Denman in delivering judgment in Gosling v. Veley (b).... | |
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Whenever electors are present and do not vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do. 
