COMMENTARIES ON The Laws of England: IN FOUR BOOKS; WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORK. BY SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, KNT. ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. VOL IV. The Nineteenth Edition. WITH THE LAST CORRECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR, AND COPIOUS BY ARCHER RYLAND, ESQ. OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW. LONDON: S. SWEET, 1, CHANCERY LANE; A. MAXWELL, 32, AND STEVENS & SONS, 39, BELL YARD, Law Booksellers & Publishers : AND MILLIKEN & SON, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. 1836. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Editor of the fourth volume of these justly esteemed Commentaries, cannot, now for the second time, submit the result of his labours to the Profession, without, as before, soliciting their favourable consideration in respect of any omissions or inaccuracies that may appear in the course of it. So many of the acts of Parliament mentioned in the text, have within the last few years been either wholly or in part repealed, and the consequent alterations in the criminal law are so numerous, and in some instances so refined, that the greatest care and diligence may have failed to notice them all; though it is hoped, that his anxious endeavours to furnish in the notes a correct analysis of the existing criminal code, will be found not altogether unsuccessful. So much of what is laid down by the learned Commentator as law, is now either modified or abolished, that it will be absolutely necessary for the reader, especially the less experienced student, to peruse and consider the notes, in immediate connection. with the text, in his progress through the volume: and, this precaution observed, it is believed, that, as a treatise on criminal law, the work may be studied with some degree of safety and advantage. Such acts of parliament as have been passed during the period the volume has been in the press, and which therefore could not be noticed in their proper places, will be found, with references to the pages and subject matters to which they respectively apply, in the Addenda. Lincoln's Inn, Trinity Vacation, 1836. . A. R. |