Hustings

In English law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London. It is the principal and supreme court of the city. See 2 Inst. 327; St. Armand, Hist. Essay, Leg. Power Eng. 75. This name is also applied to some courts in Virginia. The place of meeting to choose a member of parliament. The term is used in Canadian as well as English law. The manner of conducting an election in Canada and England for a member of the legislative body is substantially as follows: Upon warrant from the proper officer, a writ issues from the clerk of the crown in chancery, directed to the sheriff, registrar, or other returning officer of the electoral division. He thereupon issues and posts in public places a proclamation appointing a day, place and hour for his holding an election, and also fixing a day when a poll will be opened, if one be demanded and granted. The first day is called "nomination day." On this day he proceeds to the hustings, which must be in the open air, and accessible to all the voters, proclaims the purpose of the election, and calls upon the electors present to name the person they require to represent them. The electors then make a show of hands, which may result in an election, or a poll may be demanded by a candidate or by any elector. On such demand, a poll is opened in each township, ward, or parish of the election district, at the places prescribed by statute.

In English Law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London: it was the principal and supreme court of that city. See Co. 2d Inst 327; St Armand, Hist Essay on the Legisl. Power of England 75. A ‘house-thing’ as distinct from a ‘thing’ or court held in a borough in the oi Jen air. Maltl. Domesd. Book and Beyond 211. The place of meeting to choose a member of parliament. The term is used in Canadian as well as English law. Formerly the manner of conducting an election in Canada and England for a member of the legislative body was substantially as follows. Upon warrant from the proper officer, a writ issued from the clerk of the crown In chancery, directed to the sheriff, registrar, or other returning officer of the electoral division. He thereupon issued and posted In public places a proclamation appointing a day, place, and hour for his holding an election, and also fixing a day when a poll would be opened, if one were demanded and granted. The first day was called nomination day. On this day he proceeded to the hustings, which were In the open air and accessible to all the voters, proclaimed the purpose of the election, and called upon the electors present to 'name the person they required to represent them. The electors then made a show of hands, which might result In an election, or a poll might be demanded by a candidate or by any elector. On such demand, a poll was opened in each township, ward, or parish of the election district, at the places prescribed by statute. Now, however, by statute 35 & 30 Viet. c. 33, the votes are given by ballot in accordance with certain fixed rules. It Is also applied to a local court in Virginia. Va. Code, 1887, f 3072; Smith v. Com., 6 Gratt. (Va.) 696.

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Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within a building, at a time when other courts were l:eld in the open air. It was a lecal court. y: HUSTINGS 5 Lincoln, and in other places to the London hustings. Also the d place from which candidates for seats parliament address the constituency, on in the occasion of their nomination. Wharton. _ In Virginia, some of the local courts are called “hustings,” as in the city of Richmond. 6 Grat. 696.

^ 1. A temporary court held for the election of members of parliament; also a court held in London before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, with jurisdiction over actions for the recovery of land within the city, except by ejectment.^ " Hustings Qiustengu Tn) is a court of common pleas held before the mayor and aldermen of London, and it is the highest court they have, for error or attaint lies there of a judgment or false verdict in the sheriff's court... Other cities and towns have had a court of the same name." ' 2. A local court in Virginia. The Hustings Court of the city of Eichmond has exclusive original jurisdiction of all presentments, indictments and informations for offenses committed within the city (except prosecutions against convicts in the penitentiary), and concurrent jurisdiction of ■ Bennett v. Smith, 21 Barb. 441 (1856); Modisett v. Mc Pike, 74 Mo. 639 (1881).. 'Westlake «. Westlake, 34 Ohio St. 626-34 (1878), cases. Effect of abandonment on her power to contract, 20 Am. Law Eeg. 745-63 (1887), cases. s 1 Whart. Ev. §§ 421-33, cases; 1 Greenl. Ev. §§ 333- 47, cases. / •United States v. Jones, 32 F. E. 569 (1887); id. 571, note. See generally 25 Am. Law Eeg. 353-66, 417-31 (1886), cases. ^ A. S.7iu5#mff, a place of council: A«s, house; ihingf cause, council. cases with n a space of one mile around the city on the north of James river. Also exclusive jurisdiction of all appeals allowed by any State law, or ordinance of the city, from the judgments of the police justices courts, and of all causes removable from them; of proceedings for the condemnation, for public use, of lands, and of motions to correct erroneous assessments on realty; also, concurrent jurisdiction of actions for unlawful or forcible entry or detainer.'

The principal court of the city of London. The raised place from which candidates for Parliament address the electors. V. Couri, 58, 60.

Engl. law. The mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city.