Electoral Reform in England and Wales: The Development and Operation of the Parliamentary Franchise, 1832-1885 |
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Page 18 - Tenant by copy of court roll, is, as if a man be seised of a manor, within which manor there is a custom which hath been used time out of mind of man, that certain tenants within the same manor have used to have lands and tenements, to hold to them and their heirs in fee simple, or fee tail, or for term of life, &c., at the will of the lord according to the custom of the same manor.
Page 43 - The Bill is the most illiberal, the most tyrannical, the most abominable, the most infamous, the most hellish measure that ever could or can be proposed. ... I therefore conjure you to prepare your coffins, if you have the means. You will be starved to death by thousands if this Bill passes, and thrown on the dunghill or on to the ground naked like dogs.
Page 115 - ... except as to the identity of the voter, the continuance of his qualification, and whether or not he had voted before at the same election.
Page 167 - Oh, sir, things cannot go on this way; there must be a reform. We poor electors are not paid properly at all,
Page 120 - ... the postmaster shall compare the said notice and the duplicate, and, on being satisfied that they are alike in their address and in their contents, shall forward one of them to its address by the post, and shall return the other to the party bringing the same, duly stamped with the stamp of the said post office...
Page 124 - William by itself, and with reference also to the latter acts, we think a conveyance made in completion of a bona fide contract of sale, where the money passes from the buyer to the seller, and the possession also from the seller to the buyer, and where there is no secret reservation or trust whatever on the part of the seller, is not avoided by reason of the object or motive of the purchaser and seller being that of multiplying voices at an election...
Page 53 - Another, being asked who should be returned for one of his boroughs, named a waiter at White's Club ; but as he did not know the man's Christian name, the election was declared void, and a fresh election was held, when, the name having been ascertained, the waiter was duly elected.
Page 255 - Act, 1836, the rent at which the hereditaments might reasonably be expected to let from year to year free of all usual tenants...
Page 343 - But as each elector could only vote for two candidates, owing to the minority clause, the committee hit upon the following device : by a preliminary canvass the central committee ascertained the exact number of Liberal electors in each ward and the minimum of votes necessary to obtain the majority at the poll, then distributed the three candidates by twos among the electors of the ward, in such fashion that each candidate would only receive the number of votes strictly necessary to obtain the majority...
Page 64 - Croker, he rose and merely observed that "he had made some calculations which he considered as entirely conclusive in refutation of the right honorable gentleman's arguments, but unfortunately he had mislaid them ; so that he could only say that if the House would be guided by his advice they would reject the amendment," — which they did accordingly. There was no standing against such influence as this.