DIGEST

OF THE

102

LAW OF ELECTIONS,

CONTAINING THE

PROCEEDINGS AT ELECTIONS

FOR ALL PLACES IN

ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND,

WITH THE

QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS FOR THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES,

AND AN

Appendix of Penalties,

TO WHICH

RETURNING AND OTHER OFFICERS ARE LIABLE.

OTHEC

BY DANIEL LISTER,

SOLICITOR.

LONDON:

WILLIAM BENNING, LAW BOOKSELLER, 52, FLEET STREET,
T. CLARK, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH, AND MILLIKEN

AND SON, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

T. C. Johns, Printer, Red Lion Court,

Fleet Street.

ADVERTISEMENT,

IT was intended in the following pages to give a digested statement of the several provisions relating to Elections for England only, and the proceedings on the meeting of the House of Commons, and before committees on Election petitions generally. In attempting, however, to give a correct statement of the course of proceedings on Election petitions, and of the several points which have from time to time been decided before committees of the House of Commons, such frequent reference to the special provisions for Ireland and Scotland was found necessary, that for the purpose of rendering the work more complete it was thought advisable that the original plan should be enlarged, and the consideration of the latter part of the subject for the present deferred.