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A

TREATISE

ON THE

Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage

OF

PARLIAMENT.

BY

SIR THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, K.C.B., D.C.L.,

CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS;

AND BENCHER OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE;

AUTHOR OF "THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND SINCE THE ACCESSION OF
GEORGE III., 1760-1870;" AND

"DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE, A HISTORY."

EIGHTH EDITION,

REVISED AND ENLARGED.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE present edition comprises every alteration in the law and practice of Parliament, and all material precedents, to the end of 1878, and contains several pages of new matter; but notwithstanding the continued enlargement of the work by successive additions, illustrative of the history and proceedings of Parliament, it is again published, for convenience of reference, in a single volume. Many questions of constitutional law and history, of which an extended notice was not compatible with the design of this treatise, will be found more fully treated in the Author's "Constitutional History of England, since the Accession of George III., 1760-1870."

4th February, 1879.