Rule 8 says a member of the House "shall vote on every question put, unless he has a direct personal or pecuniary interest."

It is therefore of importance to establish what will constitute a pecuniary interest.

Blackburn J. has held that any pecuniary interest, however small, will be sufficient.

But the issue is of more than mere pecuniary interest.

There is no definition of pecuniary interest in the legislation.

A pecuniary or proprietary interest can arise in two ways.

Only after the first steps have been made, a pecuniary interest comes into play, which makes such enterprise self-propelling.

I have therefore no pecuniary or other interest whatever in pressing the claims of the book, beyond my great desire to see its principles adopted.

If the judge has a pecuniary interest in the outcome of a case then he is absolutely barred from hearing it.

The system is built and administered by volunteers without pecuniary interests.