 ... in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election, or who shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent...  Parliamentary Debates - Page 40by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1879Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 694 pages
...exercise of the franchise of any voter, or shall therehy compel, induce, or prevail upon any voter, either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall he deemed to have committed the offence of undue influence, and shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and... | |
 | 1865 - 710 pages
...exercise of the franchise of any voter, or shall therehy compel, induce, or prevail upon any voter, either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall he deemed to have committed the offence of undue influence, and shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and... | |
 | Law - 1866 - 624 pages
...exercise of the franchise of any voter, or shall thereby compel, induce, or prevail upon any voter either to give, or to refrain from giving, his vote at any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and liable to forfeit the sum of 50¿." The statute provides various other... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1878 - 632 pages
...exercise of the franchise of any voter, or thereby compels, 20 induces, or prevails upon any voter either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any such election. SECTION 80. SELLING OFFICES. Everyone shall be guilty of an indictable offence, and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 878 pages
...shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or shall thereby...refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence. 3. The expression "corrupt practice" as used in this Act means any of the... | |
 | Sir Miles Walker Mattinson - Elections - 1883 - 338 pages
...shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or shall thereby...refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence. what is corrupt 3. The expression " corrupt practice " as used in this Act... | |
 | John Corrie Carter - Election law - 1883 - 116 pages
...shall by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or shall thereby...refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence. This is in substitution for Section 5 of the Corrupt Practices Prevention... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1883 - 1166 pages
...shall, by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance impede or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any elector, or shall thereby...refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence." Under thia Act of 1864 undue influence was made, of course, a corrupt practice,... | |
 | Henry Hobhouse - Election law - 1883 - 270 pages
...definition, as a priost who threatens future punishment can hardly be said to " threaten to 8 2 8 *. upon any elector either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election, shall be guilty of undue influence. §JJ. 3. The expression " corrupt practice " as used in this wimt is Act... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1883 - 468 pages
...free exercise of the franchise of any voter, or thereby compels, induces, or prevails upon any voter either to give or to refrain from giving his vote at any election. ARTICLE 131. PUNISHMENT OF BRIBEEY AT CERTAIN ELECTIONS. 1 Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor... | |
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