ELECTION LAW.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

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ELECTION LAW

AND THE

Law and Practice

OF

ELECTION PETITIONS.

BY THE

HON. CHANDOS LEIGH, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE, OXFORD, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
RECORDER OF STAMFORD:

AND

HENRY D. LE MARCHANT, M.A.

CH. CH. OXFORD, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

PREFACE

TO

THE FIRST EDITION.

THE alterations made by the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, in the law relating to the trial of Election Petitions, render it unnecessary to offer any apology for adding another Treatise to the various works which have already appeared on the subject.

As Registration has been already ably handled in Mr. Rogers' book on Elections and Registration, and that subject is untouched by the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, it is not treated in the present book.

The aim of the Authors has been to enable the reader, whether he be a candidate or agent, to see at a glance how proceedings, connected with an election, to which the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts apply, should be conducted, together with the Penalties with which persons transgressing in law may be visited.