St. Brit. Laws, statutes,ut Liquor low THE LAW OF THE SALE OF LIQUORS BY RETAIL AND HENRY SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE Licensing Act passed last Session falls easily into the plan of arrangement adopted by the writers in 1872. In the present edition the sections of the new Act have been interpolated in their appropriate places among the sections of the Act of 1872, so that the two Statutes, which are one in law, may be read together in the text. The Summary and the whole book have been carefully revised by the light of the new Act and recent cases; frequent references have been given from page to page; the set of Forms has been largely increased, and the Rules of the Middlesex Sessions for the Licensing Committee have been printed by way of sample. As to the general effect of the new Statute upon the law of licensing, it rather increases than diminishes the difficulty of the subject, as it makes no attempt at consolidation, but merely adds one more to the Licensing Acts. TEMPLE, August 17th, 1874. J. M. L. W. D. I. F. PREFACE. THE law of licensing being entirely contained in a written form, it seemed to the present writers to be of the first importance, in treating the subject, to furnish the reader with the words of the statutes themselves. These statutes are numerous and scattered; and it was thought advisable to introduce some arrangement more manageable than a mere chronological order. The plan adopted, on consideration, has been to divide the Licensing Acts into three groups; the first, consisting of the original Licensing Act of 1828, and the act which amends it; and the second, of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, and the acts which it recites, the subsidiary enactments being in each case interpolated in their appropriate places, and distinguished by square brackets from the principal statute. Licensing Act of 1872, which is supplementary to both, is, in the third place, printed entire, with notes between the sections. For facility of reference, the marginal notes supplied by the Queen's Printers, being without authority, and not, in general, of a satisfactory character, have been re-written throughout. The statute law, however, even The |