THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

ITS CONSTITUTION

1. As to Places Represented

2. As to Qualifications of Electors.

3. As to Mode of Election.

(1.) As to the value of each vote

(2.) As to how the votes are taken

4. As to Qualifications of Members

ITS INTERNAL REGULATIONS

1. Privileges of Members

I

6

9

14

14

16

17

19

2. Powers of the House over its own Members and other

54

POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE FORMATION OF

THE GOVERNMENT.

MEMBERS OF THE CABINET AND OTHER CHIEF

OFFICERS OF THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT . 60

GENERAL COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL 89

TRIAL BY JURY.

THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT

92

. 95

THE PUNISHMENT AND REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS

GENERAL COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS IN A CIVIL TRIAL

AND OF MIXED CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Pleading

Hearing of Evidence and Decision of Disputed Matters of

Fact, and Consideration and Decision of disputed Points

of Law.

Extraordinary Judicial Remedies

97

99

100

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. 106

GENERAL VIEW OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND PRIN-

CIPLES OF ENGLISH LAW

108

THE AUDIT DEPARTMENT AND THE PROCESS OF

MAKING PAYMENTS BY THE TREASURY.

THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND THE UNDER-SECRE-

TARIES OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

THE NATIONAL DEBT

THE LEGAL PROFESSION

THE BANK OF ENGLAND

217

219

THE JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

IN CASES OF DISPUTED ELECTIONS

230

INDEX.

233

The following works (among others) have been used in the preparation of the present treatise, and are recommended to students for perusal or reference:

HALLAM'S Works.

BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries (Recent Edition).
HADLEY and BROOM'S Commentaries,
MAY'S Constitutional History.

MAY'S Parliamentary Practice.

STUBBS'S Constitutional History of England.
FREEMAN'S Growth of the English Constitution.
PALGRAVE'S Lectures on the House of Commons.

HOMERSHAM Cox's Institutions of the English Govern

ment.

CREASY'S Rise and Progress of the English Constitution.
LIEBER'S Civil Liberty and Self-Government.

GNEIST'S Self-Government in England.

FISCHEL'S English Constitution.

FORSYTH'S Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law.
History of Trial by Fury.

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BROOM'S Constitutional Law.

PHILLIMORE'S Ecclesiastical Law.

TOULMIN SMITH'S "The Parish."

BURN'S Justice of the Peace.

ARCHBOLD'S Quarter Sessions.

Civil Service Estimates for the Year.

Parliamentary Report of Judicial Statistics.

Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on Local

Taxation.

Statistical Society's Journal.

Statesman's Year-Book.

GLEN'S Public Health Acts.

RAWLINSON'S Municipal Corporation Act.

The Extradition Acts, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 52), and
1873 (36 and 37 Vict., c. 60).

The Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 90).
The Naturalization Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 14).
An Act to Amend the Law relating to the Property of
Married Women (33 and 34 Vict., c. 93).

Clerical Disabilities Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 91),