i given the enactments at length, in order to make this Treatise in itself a practical compendium of the whole of the law upon the subject, and a safe guide, wherever the Statute Book may not be accessible. With the same object, I have endeavoured to place the decisions of the Courts in so clear a light, that they may regulate the proceedings in future cases. 4, Essex Court, Michaelmas Term, 1828. R. W. |