OF PARLIAMENTARY AND MUNICIPAL Registration Cases, CONTAINING AN ABSTRACT OF THE CASES DECIDED ON APPEAL FROM THE DECISIONS OF REVISING BARRISTERS DURING THE PERIOD COMMENCING 1843, BY JOHN JAMES HEATH SAINT, Esq., B.A., Of the Inner Temple and Midland Circuit, Barrister-at-Law, Author of "Saint's Manual of Registration." Third Edition BROUGHT DOWN TO MAY, 1896, BY EDWARD ANNESLEY OWEN, Esq., M.A., LONDON: BUTTERWORTH & Co., 7, FLEET STREET; SHAW & SONS, 7 & 8, FETTER LANE, DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., GRAFTON STREET. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. THIS Third Edition has followed the method adopted by the original Author. Cases rendered obsolete by subsequent decisions or statutes have not been entirely omitted, but are recorded merely by a headnote, with a footnote referring to the decision or statute superseding them. This course has been preferred to total omission for three reasons, which seem cogent to me as a Revising Barrister, familiar with the needs, and anxious to study the convenience, of persons engaged in Registration work. Firstly, because the book thereby is a more complete record of both past and present law on the subject, and a more comprehensive register of its course. Secondly, because many are engaged in Registration work who are not in the |