ROGERS ON ELECTIONS. VOL. II.-PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND PETITIONS; with Appendices of Statutes, Rules and Forms. Seventeenth Edition. By S. H. Day, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 12mo. 1895. Cloth. Price £1:1s. (For Cash, 178.; postage 6d. extra.) VOL. III.-MUNICIPAL AND OTHER ELECTIONS AND PETITIONS, with Appendices of Statutes, Rules, and Forms. Seventeenth Edition. By S. H. DAY, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 12mo. 1894. Cloth. Price 11s. (For Cash, 175.; postage 6d. extra.) ** * This Volume treats of Elections to Municipal Councils (including the City of London), County Councils, Parish Councils, Rural and Urban District Councils, Boards of Guardians (within and without London), Metropolitan Vestries, School Boards. "The leading book on the difficult subjects of elections and election petitions."-Law Times. "A very satisfactory treatise on election law. . . ."-Solicitors' Journal. STEVENS & SONS, Ltd., 119 & 120, Chancery Lane, London. ROGERS ON ELECTIONS VOL. I. REGISTRATION, PARLIAMENTARY, MUNICIPAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE PRACTICE IN REGISTRATION APPEALS, WITH APPENDICES OF STATUTES, ORDERS IN COUNCIL, AND FORMS. SIXTEENTH EDITION. BY MAURICE POWELL, M.A., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQUIRE, ONE OF THE REVISING BARRISTERS ON THE SOUTH EASTERN CIRCUIT, Late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, Jaw Publishers and Booksellers. PREFACE. SINCE the publication of the last edition of this Volume of Rogers on Elections the Local Government Act, 1894, has created the new class of Parochial Electors, who now elect the Guardians, and the members of the Parish Councils, and in the Metropolis the Vestrymen and Auditors, and except in boroughs, the members of the District Councils. This edition includes the registration of these Electors. So many cases have been decided in the Superior Courts as to the right of persons to be on the register and to vote, that the previous decisions of Election Committees of the House of Commons have, in general, ceased to be of much importance. These Committees had a political character, and hence their resolutions, for which no reasons were stated, were frequently unsatisfactory and conflicting. For this reason many of the decisions of these Committees, which were in previous editions, have been omitted. As regards decisions on the facts, they were useless as precedents, and as regards law they were of no value, as even "a resolution of the House of Commons could not deprive a person of any right of voting conferred by Statute" (per cur. in Bulmer v. Norris, post, p. 44 and n. ()). 211728 |