Reports of the Proceedings Before Select Committees of the House of Commons, in ... Cases of Controverted Elections: Heard and Determined During the First [and Second] Session[s] of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, Volume 1J. Murray, 1793 |
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act of parliament admitted againſt alfo alſo anſwer argument becauſe burgage burgeffes burgenfibus burgum cafe charter chofen circumftance committee confideration contended conveyances counfel crown decifion diffolved eorum eſtate evidence exifted faid borough fame favour fcot and lot ferve fhall fheriff fhould fide fince firſt fitting members five burgi prædicti fome freeholders ftated ftatute fucceffores fuch fufficient fuis fuppofed grant himſelf Houfe of Commons Houſe inftance inhabitants intereft itſelf juftice laft laſt Lord Lord Mansfield Major mayor mittee moſt muft muſt noftris Oakhampton obferved occafionality old corporation opinion Orkney paffed parliament perfons petition petitioners poffeffion poll Pontefract Portreeve prefent proved purpoſe queſtion quod reaſon refolution refpect rent returning officer right of election right to vote ſaid Sir Gilbert Elliot ſtated ſtatement tenement thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion ufage villæ five burgi Villam five Ville five burgi voters witnefs Zetland
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Page 76 - That the right of electing members to ferve in parliament for the borough of Oakhampton, in the county of Devon, is in the freeholders and freemen, being made free according to the charter and bye-laws of the faid borough:
Page 111 - in any county, city, borough, " town corporate, port or place, in order to " multiply voices, or to fplit and divide the " intereft in any houfes or lands among
Page 369 - is not duly elefted a burgefs to ferve in this prefent parliament for the borough of Dorchefter, in the county of Dorfet: That the
Page 273 - Refolved, That the mayor, aldermen, and " all the inhabitants, within the borough of " Newark upon Trent, who pay, or ought to " pay, fcot and lot within the faid borough,
Page 125 - juftice fhould go by. If the title to a feat in " parliament had been in England (as now in " Scotland) referred to the decifion of a court " of juftice, we might venture to guefs, that " a gentleman could not have been at liberty to
Page 277 - be removed, or which at the time of " making fuch rate was empty or unoccupied, that then ** every perfon fo removing from, and every perfon fo coming " into or occupying the fame, fhall be liable to pay
Page 82 - pleno comitatu tuo eligi facias pro comitatu " tuo duos milites, et pro qualibet civitate in " comitatu tuo, duos cives e't pro quolibet " burgo in comitatu tuo duos burgenfes,
Page 61 - When a man " is a freeman of a city or borough, he has a " freehold in his freedom for life." Nothing then but his own act can divert him of
Page 322 - determined, That the right of voting for members to ferve in parliament for the borough of Newark, in the county of Nottingham, is in the mayor, aldermen, and all the inhabitants
Page 196 - counfel at the bar, as the laft determination " of the Houfe touching the legality of votes " for members to ferve in parliament for that " borough.