Cw.U.K.

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New Commentaries

ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND

(PARTLY FOUNDED ON BLACKSTONE)

BY JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ., LL.D.,

JUDGE OF COUNTY COURTS.

"For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking, by the order and perspicuous expressing
of that I do propound, I am otherwise zealous and affectionate to recede as little from
"antiquity, either in terms or opinions, as may stand with truth, and the proficience of know-
"ledge."-Lord Bac. Adv. of Learning.

The Ninth Edition

BY

HENRY ST. JAMES STEPHEN,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

Book VI.

OF CRIMES.

CHAP. I.

OF THE NATURE OF CRIMES AND THEIR PUNISHMENTS.

Of the Distinction between Crimes and Civil Injuries

Of Misdemeanors and Felonies

Of the Right to inflict Punishment

Of the Object of Punishment

Of the Measure of Punishment

CHAP. II.

OF THE PERSONS CAPABLE OF COMMITTING CRIMES.

Of Persons who are not capable of committing Crimes

Of Infancy

Of Idiocy or Lunacy

Of Drunkenness

Of Misfortune or Chance..

Of Ignorance or Mistake

Of Compulsion and Necessity

Of the Incapacity of the Sovereign to commit Crime

CHAP. III.

OF PRINCIPALS AND ACCESSORIES.

Of a Principal in the First Degree

Of a Principal in the Second Degree

Of Accessories

Of Accessories before the Fact

Of Accessories after the Fact

Of the Punishment of Accessories

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ibid.

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ibid.

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Of Endangering Railway Passengers

Of Setting Spring Guns, or destructive Engines ..

Of Assaults, Batteries and False Imprisonment

Of Bigamy

Of Publication of a Libel

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CHAP. V.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY OR ARISING OUT OF CONTRACT.

Of Extorting Money by Threats, Accusations, &c.

ibid.

Of Larceny or Embezzlement by Clerks, Servants, &c.

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