A Digest of Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Cases, Containing an Abstract of the Cases Decided on Appeal From the Decisions of Revising Barristers During the Period Commencing 1843

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This Third Edition has followed the method adopted by the original Author. Cases rendered obsolete by subsequent decisions or statutes have not been entirely omitted, but are recorded merely by a headnote, with a footnote referring to the decision or statute superseding them.

This course has been preferred to total omission for three reasons, which seem cogent to me as a Revising Barrister, familiar with the needs, and anxious to study the convenience, of persons engaged in Registration work.

Firstly, because the book thereby is a more complete record of both past and present law on the subject, and a more comprehensive register of its course.

Secondly, because many are engaged in Registration work who are not in the vi

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legal profession, as well as those who are; and, even in the latter case, the memory of manifold Decisions and Statutes is naturally liable to trip: in both cases, occasional reliance on obsolete law can obtain ready correction by a reference to this Digest.

Thirdly, because many such Cases, though no longer authority for the particular point at issue there, are instructive and, possibly, authoritative upon the construction to be placed upon similar or analogous sections or ...