 | Sir John Simeon - 1789 - 342 pages
...land, that burgage tenure boroughis fhall eletft .• members to ferve in parliament, and that foch right of election is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is a real privilege. This right, however, was probably in its origin per* fonal, and exercifed by the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1790 - 962 pages
...fhall ele£t members to ferve in parliament, whether they be h'oroughs corporate or' not corporate ; and in that cafe the right of election is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I mav properly call ir, a real privilege. But the fecond fort is, where a corporation is created by charter,... | |
 | Robert Raymond Baron Raymond, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1792 - 920 pages
...boroughs fhall elect members to ferve in parliament, whether they be boroughs corporate or not corporate ; and in that cafe the right of election is a privilege annexed to the burgage lane1, and i?, as I may properly call it, a real privilege. But the fécond fort is, where a corporation... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...contradistinction to the personal right acquired by corporate franchise. ' The right of election," he says, ' is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I may properly call it, a real privilege.' J To apply then the argument for indemnification to the case of burgage-tenure property subjected to... | |
 | Parliament commons, proc, Robert Shank Atcheson - 1831 - 338 pages
...elect members to serve in Par- 4 lnst- 2. liament, whether they be corporate or not corporate; — the right of election is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is a real privilege." Littleton states, that " tenure in burgage is where an Criteria of ancient Iwrough... | |
 | Parliament commons, proc, Robert Shank Atcheson - 1831 - 348 pages
...Parliament, whether they be boroughs eorporate or not eorporate, and in that ease the right of eleetion is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I may properly eall it, a real privilege." If this doetrine were taken to the extent to whieh it is pushed, no person... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 pages
...contradistinction to the personal right acquired by corporate franchise. ' The right of election,' he says, ' is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I may properly call it, a real privilege.' J To apply then the argument for indemnification to the case of burgage-tenure property subjected to... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 pages
...members to serve in parliament, whether they be boroughs corporate or not corporate ; and in that case the right of election is a privilege annexed to the...and is, as I may properly call it, a real privilege. But the second sort is, where a corporation is created by charter, or by prescription, and the members... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1852 - 828 pages
...in socage is the reason of their estate ; and the right of election is annexed to their estate — a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I may properly call it, a real privilege.' Where the right of election is by burgage tenure, that alone is a proof of the antiquity of the borough.... | |
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... the right of election is a privilege annexed to the burgage land, and is, as I may properly call it, a real privilege. 