Excerpt from Green's Encyclopaedia of the Law of Scotland, Vol. 5: Election Petition to Fire-Raising A new respondent cannot be admitted in place of the returning officer. If before the trial the respondent dies, or is summoned to Parliament as a peer, or if the House of Commons has resolved that his seat is vacant, or if he does not intend to Oppose the petition, notice of such event having been given by publication in a newspaper, and by leaving a copy with the returning officer and principal clerk, any person entitled to be a petitioner may, within ten days after such notice has been given, or such further time as the judges may allow, apply to be admitted as a respondent, either with the respondent, if there be a respondent, or in the place of the respondent (31 32 Vict. C. 125, s. 38; Rules 30, 31, and 32, Not more than three persons can be so admitted (s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.