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Faggot Votes

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

<A faggot vote is where a man is formally possessed of a right to vote for members of parliament, without possessing the substance which the vote should represent; as if he is enabled ta buy a property, and at the same moment mortgage it to its full value for the mere sake of the vote. Such a vote is called a “faggot vote.”

See? &8 Wm. IL. ¢.25,§ 7. Wharton.