Reports of the Decisions of the Judges for the Trial of Election Petitions in Great Britain and Ireland: Pursuant to the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, Volumes 4-6Sweet and Maxwell, 1893 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Act of Parliament alleged applied asked Ballot Act ballot papers Baron POLLOCK behalf borough bribery brother called candidate candidature canvassing Captain Donelan cards Castlemartyr charges Christopher Furness committee room common law conclusion consider constituency Corrupt and Illegal corrupt treating costs Counsel for Petitioner course Court December declared Dickens division doubt Dundalk election agent election expenses election petition electors employed employment evidence fact false statement give given ground guilty Haggerston Healy illegal practices incurred Inner Temple intended intimidation James Shea John O'Brien judges judgment Justice CAVE Justice CHANNELL Lord Lordships Lowles matter meeting ment Messrs Moloney Murphy object offence officer opinion paid particular party payment persons Petitioner political polling day present proved Public Prosecutor purpose question reason reference regard respect Respondent's Sir Wilfrid Lawson statute thing tion undue influence United Irish League Vict void vote voters witness words
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Page 282 - ... on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the said election.
Page 28 - ... for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a Candidate...
Page 157 - Candidate at such election, make or publish any false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of such Candidate...
Page 137 - At any election for a county or borough, a person shall not be entitled to vote unless his name is on the register of voters for the time being in force for such county or borough, and every person whose name is on such register shall be entitled to demand and receive a ballot paper and to vote: Provided that nothing in this section shall entitle any person to vote who is prohibited from voting by any statute, or by the common law of Parliament...
Page 28 - To an elector on account of the use of any house, land, building, or premises for the exhibition of any address, bill, or notice, or on account of the exhibition of any address, bill, or notice; or...
Page 171 - ... false statement of fact in relation to the personal character or conduct of such candidate shall be guilty of an illegal practice within the meaning of the provisions of the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act...
Page 154 - Every claim against a candidate at an election or his election agent in respect of any expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election...
Page 84 - Candidate" respectively mean, unless the context otherwise requires, any person elected to serve in Parliament at such election, and any person who is nominated as a Candidate at such election, or is declared by himself or by others to be a Candidate, on or after the day of the issue of the writ for such election, or after the dissolution or vacancy in consequence of which such writ has been issued...
Page 24 - ... arose from inadvertence or from accidental miscalculation or from some other reasonable cause of a like nature, and in any case did not arise from any want of good faith...