Convener and Trades of Aberbrothock, v. The Magistrates and Council
Date: 1 July 1740 Case No. No. 30.
Force or fraud used to keep away a member from an election.
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It was the unanimous opinion of the Court, though there was no occasion to give direct judgment upon it, that as the keeping away a member of a town-council from the meeting by force will void the whole proceeding, so keeping one away by a fraudulent combination, though without force, but with an apparent design to carry an election, will have the same effect.
