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Home Dictionary Name: franchiseElectoral franchise
Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows:(a) Originally the freeholders elected the members for the county: later, residence was made an additional qualification. In the fifteenth century the qualification was limited to resident freeholders of lands or tenements to the value of 40s. by the year (8 Hen. 6, c. 7). Towards the end of the eighteenth century the residence qualification was abolished. The (English) Reform Act, 1832, extended the franchise to 10l. copyholders and to leaseholders for terms of years, and tenants at will paying a minimum of 50l. yearly rent (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 45, ss. 19 and 20). The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867, extended the franchise to every duly registered man of full age who was-(i) the owner of lands or tenements, of whatever tenure, for his own life, for the life of another or for any lives wha...
Lodger-franchise
Lodger-franchise. This was first conferred upon the occupiers of lodgings in boroughs of 10l. yearly value, if let unfurnished, by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867, and was afterwards extended to the occupiers of lodgings in counties by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1884. Lodger-franchise was abolished by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918. See ELECTORAL FRANCHISE....
County franchise
County franchise. This was conferred by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), on all county house holders, and by the (English) Representation of the People Act, 1884, on all county house holders and lodgers in lodgings up to 10l. a year in value. See (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918, Part I., for extent of local government franchise, and ELECTORAL FRANCHISE....
franchise tax
franchise tax : a business tax imposed upon various corporations granted a franchise ...
Service franchise
Service franchise, a franchise given by s. 3 of the Representation of the People Act, 1884, to male persons occupying, by virtue of their service or employment, a dwelling-house not occupied by their master. Obsolete. See ELECTORAL FRAN-CHISE....
franchise
franchise [Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free] 1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as a : a right to conduct a business and esp. to be and to exercise the powers of a corporation b : a right granted to a public utility company to provide services and to use public land for that purpose 2 : a constitutional or statutory right ;esp : the right to vote used with the [restricting them in employment, education, the , legal personality, and public accommodation "W. H. Burns"] 3 : a right or license that is granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory under the company's trademark, trade name, or service mark and that often involves the use of rules and procedures designed by the company and services (as advertising) and facilities provided by the company in return for fees, royalties, ...
Franchise
Franchise, an incorporeal hereditament synony-mous with liberty. A royal privilege or branch of the Crown's prerogative subsisting in the hands of a subject. It arises either from royal grant, or from prescription, which pre-supposes a grant. The kinds are almost infinite, but the principal are: bodies corporate, the right to hold Courtsleet, fairs markets, ferries, forests, chases, parks, warrens, fisheries. The remedy for disturbance is an action. See COPYHOLDS, 1 Steph. Com.Also, the right of voting at an election for a member of Parliament. See ELECON.1. The right to vote 2. The right conferred by government to engage in a specific business to exercise corporate powers, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Lying in franchise
Lying in franchise, waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without suit or action, 3 Steph. Com....
franchiser
franchiser var of franchisor ...
Quo warranto
Quo warranto, a writ issuable out of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty to inquire 'by what authority' he supports his claim, in order to determine the right. It lies also in case of non-user or long neglect of a franchise, or mis-user or abuse of it, whereby it is forfeited.This proceeding was, until 1872, the one 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 now s. 71 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)], substituted an election petition in the cases where an election is sought to be questioned on the ground of bribery, etc., disqualification, or undue return. By s. 84 of the Act of 1933, proceedings must be instituted within six...
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