The Representation of the People Act 1867: With Practical and Explanatory Notes, and Abstract of the Act, and a Full Index

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Page 20 - Elector in such manner, as would entitle him then to vote, if such day were the day of Election, and this Act had not been passed, nor unless he shall have resided for Six Calendar Months next previous to the last day of July in such year, within the City or Borough, or within the place sharing in the Election for...
Page 107 - Charges payable out of or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in any future Parliament for the County, or for the Riding, Parts, or Division of the County, in which such Lands or Tenements shall be respectively situate.
Page xv - ... the unexpired residue, whatever it may be, of any term originally created for ' a period of not less than sixty years...
Page xv - ... for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate of the clear yearly value of not less than five pounds over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 64 - January 5 then last past, and the overseers shall keep the said list, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at any time between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon, and four of the clock in the afternoon...
Page 16 - ... the landlord shall or shall not be liable to be rated to the relief of the poor in respect thereof ; and upon such occupier so claiming and actually paying or tendering the full amount of the rate or rates, if any, then due in respect of such premises...
Page 34 - ... unless he shall have been in the actual possession thereof, or in the receipt of the rents and profits thereof for his own use, for six calendar months at least next previous to the last day of July in such year...
Page 36 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant's rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, (if any,) and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 44 - Parliament at such election, and any person who is nominated as a candidate at such election, or is declared by himself or by others to be a candidate, on or after the day of the issue of the writ for such, election, or after the dissolution or vacancy in consequence of which such writ has been issued.
Page 107 - Parliament, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices consequent upon such writs, or relating to the registration of voters, shall be framed and expressed in such manner and form as may be necessary for the carrying the provisions of this Act into effect.

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