ΤΟ

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

SIR HENRY LE MARCHANT, BART., M.A.

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

THIRD EDITION.

BY THE

HON. CHANDOS LEIGH, M.A.

AND

YARBOROUGH ANDERSON, M.A., LL.B.

OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, BARRI

BIBLIOTHEED

MAY 180

BODLEIANA

57, CAREY STREET, LINCOLN'S INN, W.C.

1880.

Ballantyne Press

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PREFACE

ΤΟ

THE THIRD EDITION.

The success that has attended the sale of the first two editions of this work has induced Mr. CHANDOS LEIGH and Mr. ANDERSON (in place of Sir H. LE MARCHANT) to offer a Third Edition on the eve of a General Election.

The numerous decisions by judges (both in English and Irish cases) since the passing of the Ballot Act, of necessity, have caused some considerable alterations in the Work, particularly in the law of scrutiny, and the addition of new General Rules and Statutes has increased its size, but the main object and original intention of the work has been strictly adhered to by the Authors. A chapter has also been added on Municipal Elections in which the many cases which have been recently decided will be found noted.

The Acts passed in the Session of 1880 (The Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1880, and the Town Council and Local Boards Act, 1880) have been added to the statutes in the Appendix, and the changes made by them will be found noticed in the List of Addenda immediately preceding the first chapter.

TEMPLE, March, 1880.

PREFACE

TO

THE SECOND

EDITION.

THE numerous decisions of importance since 1870, together with the changes in the law made by the Ballot Act, 1872, have altered the procedure at the trial of election petitions so materially that the Authors of this work believe a second edition may not be found unacceptable to the profession.

It has been thought advisable to entirely rewrite the chapters on "Scrutiny" and "Practical Suggestions and Evidence," but the Authors have throughout endeavoured, as far as possible, to preserve the form of the original text, and to compress all the new matter within the closest possible limits.

The forms of Information and Indictment are omitted, as hardly coming within the scope of the work.