 | Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1895 - 784 pages
...power to decide upon the legality of a vote was in most eases taken away. The sheriff, it was paid, is "to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return...such as he shall determine to be duly elected" : 2 Peck. 13—18 ; see If. v. Backllousc, LR, 2 QB 16 ; 36 LJ, QB 7. Ms offence at the bar of the House,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...the control of the house of commons), of coroners, and of verderers; to judge of the qualifications of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected. As the keeper of the king's peace, both by common law and special commission, he is the first man in... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 462 pages
...the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors; to judge of the qualifications of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be elected." With us, these judicial functions are obsolete. The same may also be said of his functions... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1922 - 1044 pages
...the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors; to judge of the qualifications of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected. (14) As the keeper of the king's peace, both by common law and special commission, he is the first... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Precedence - 1924 - 198 pages
...of coroners, of verdeors, or officers of the king's forests ; to judge of the qualifications of all voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected, but incapable of being L being elected himself for the county, &c., of which he is returning officer.... | |
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He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected. 
