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Definition :

Disfranchisement, signifies taking a franchise from a man for some reasonable cause, Symmers v. R., (1776) 2 Cowp 489 (502)

Disfranchisement, is the expulsion of a corporator from membership and involves the total depriva-tion of all privileges, rights, interest, profits and advantages which the individual member enjoyed whilst a corporator, Halsbury's Laws of England (9), para 1253, p. 746.

Disfranchisement, the act of depriving of a franchise, immunity, or privilege; the depriving a constituency of a right to return a member to Parliament, or a person of a right to vote at a Parliamentary or Municipal Election.