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Excerpt from The Franchise, a Manual of Registration and Election Law and Practice (Parliamentary and Municipal): Together With the Acts of Parliament Relating Thereto, and References to the Leading Cases Thereon, Brought Down to the Close of the Session 42 and 43 Vic. (1879) This the Author has endeavoured to do, by detailing in a popular manner, and in the form of a Dictionary, the Customary Rights and Statutory Laws affecting the Vote, short references to the cases which have arisen thereon, and been decided, both on Registration Appeals and Election Petitions, with the times, forms, and rules to be observed in the Revision Court, at the Polling Booth, and subsequently in proceedings on Election Petitions. The principal Acts, nineteen in number, together with the (judges' Rules on Petitions, and such of the Forms as are not given in the Acts, will be found in the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.