A

COLLECTION OF DECISIONS

IN THE

COURTS FOR REVISING

THE LISTS OF ELECTORS.

A

COLLECTION OF DECISIONS

IN THE

COURTS FOR REVISING

THE LISTS OF ELECTORS

FOR

THE COUNTIES

OF BERKS, MIDDLESEX, THE EASTERN DIVISION OF KENT, THE
NORTHERN DIVISION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WARWICKSHIRE;

THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER ;

AND

THE BOROUGHS

OF ABINGDON, BEDFORD, FINSBURY, HARWICH, LAMBETH, LEICESTER,
MARLOW, MARYLEBONE, AND PETERSFIELD:

TOGETHER WITH SOME OF THE

RESOLUTIONS OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

AND

THE REFORM AND BOUNDARY ACTS.

By W. F. A. DELANE, Esq.

OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

London:

HENRY BUTTERWORTH,

LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, 7, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXXXIV.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. BRETTELL, RUPERT STREET, HAYMARKET.

PREFACE.

THE discussions which have arisen on the various Clauses of the Reform Act, appear, by the results produced, to have had only the effect of obscuring the plain and simple provisions by which the rights of all classes to the Elective Franchise are defined. The composition of a Treatise upon the various clauses, explaining the mode by which their provision may be effectually fulfilled, has been rendered unnecessary, by the many able Publications which appeared on the subject immediately after the passing of the Act. The Compiler was induced to believe that a Collection of the Decisions on the Cases before the various Courts of Revision, would not be unacceptable.