 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 726 pàgines
...between those voters who reside at a distance, and those who live within half a mile of the place ot voting. The Legislature has drawn a strict line which...transactions must not bring their case before a Court of Law. With regard to the money paid into court, it is to be observed, that such payment is only an admission... | |
 | Jeremiah W. Blydenburgh - 1844 - 364 pàgines
...how then can we enforce a contract to do that very thing which is so much reprobated by the act ? The Court cannot give any assistance to the plaintiff,...consistently with the principles which have governed courts of justice at all times. — Persons who engage in such transactions must not bring their cases... | |
 | 1847 - 554 pàgines
...how then can we enforce a contract to do that very thing which is so much reprobated by the act ?' ' This Court cannot give any assistance to the plaintiff...have governed the courts of justice at all times. Persons who engage in such transactions must not bring their cases before a court of law, &c.> " So... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1853 - 520 pàgines
...a distinction between those voters who reside at a distance, and those who live within half-a-mile of the place of voting. The legislature has drawn...with the cases which have been cited this day."— 1 BOS.& P. 266. ment. The question is not what has each elector received, but what has the sitting... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 536 pàgines
...we enforce a contract to do that very thing which is so much reprobated [ * 540 ] by the act ? " " This * court cannot give any assistance to the plaintiff'...have governed the courts of justice at all times. Persons who engage in such transactions must not bring their cases before a court of law," &c. So,... | |
 | John Clerk - 1857 - 756 pàgines
...the teste of the writ no meat or drink shall be given to the voters by the candidate ; and that heing the case, this Court cannot give any assistance to...must not bring their case before a Court of law." Were a penal action to be brought against a candidate for corruptly supplying electors with provisions,... | |
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... voting. The Legislature has drawn a strict line which is not to be departed from : it says, that after the teste of the writ no meat or drink shall be given to the voters by the candidate ; and that being the case, this Court cannot give any assistance... 