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Bribe
and 1916; and see the Prevention of Corruption Order, 1918, No. 321]. See also (English) the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, which is directed against the bribery and corruption of members, officers, and servants of public bodies. A
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Candidate
The name is derived from the toga candida in which competitors at Rome were habited. In the (English) Corrupt Practices Acts the expression has a specially extensive meaning. Corrupt and Illegal practices (English) Prevention Act, 1883, s. 63,
Sessions of the peace
of bankrupts. This restriction is abolished. See below. (14) Libels. (15) Bribery, except under the (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889 (c. 69), s. 6. (16) Unlawful combinations and conspiracies, except conspiracies and combinations to commit any offence
Treating
(English) Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102), s. 4, amended by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended to municipal, school board, and other … Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended to municipal, school board, and other elections by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1884, and continued from time to time by Expiring Laws Continuance Acts, enacts that every candidate who corruptly
Relief
1 QB 779; 2 QB 59; and as to municipal elections under the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884, ss. 7 and 8, see Nichol v. Fearby, (1923) 1 KB 480. Relief against Forfeiture of Lease.
Attorney-General
fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s.
Quo warranto
generally adopted for the purpose of trying the right to be elected to municipal offices, but the (English) Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, by s. 12, replaced by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 87 [see
Particulars
'Particulars' was in ss. 83 and 90 of Representation of the People Act, 1951 means 'instances' of a corrupt practice, Sangappa v. Shivamurti Swamy, AIR 1958 Mys 120 (124). [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 90 … statement of claim containing the material facts on which the plaintiff relied for the declaration under the old practice, which only contained a legal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action. It is provided, however by (English)
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