Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in England and Ireland, Volume 6

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Edward William Cox
J. Crockford, Law Times Office, 1855 - Criminal law

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Page clxxvi - ... or cause to be paid any money to any person in discharge or repayment of any money wholly or in part expended in bribery at any election...
Page lxviii - Felony ; and a Certificate containing the Substance and Effect only (omitting the formal Part) of the Indictment and Conviction for the Previous Felony, purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court, or other Officer having the Custody of the Records of the Court where the Offender was first convicted...
Page clxxvii - ... 1. Every voter who shall, before or during any election, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, receive, agree, or contract for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place, or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, at any election : 2.
Page 480 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are1 not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence against you upon your trial...
Page xxiii - Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his...
Page 144 - And that if any person shall unlawfully take, or cause to be taken, any unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, or any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor...
Page clxxxi - ... conviction, without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed the same.
Page lxxxvii - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page clxxxii - England in manner directed by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter Forty-three intituled An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to Summary Convictions and Orders...
Page clxxvii - ... intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or...

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