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Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.

This 1863 work aimed to provide an 'intelligible and interesting' account of the main principles of the English criminal justice system.

Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.

Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.

Excerpt from The Opportunity, Or Reasons for an Immediate Alliance With St. Domingo: By the Author of the Crisis of the Sugar Colonies But supposing this line of policy to be open to no such practical objections, it involves a sacrifice of advantages, which this commercial and mari time country ought not, Without very important reasons, to make. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1 of 4: Partly Founded on Blackstone Of the plan and principle of my own work, and of the views on which it was undertaken, it may be right here to give some farther explanation. Though the celebrated Treatise of Blackstone still remains without a rival, as an introductory and popular work on the Laws of England, the positions which it contains have been neverth...

Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of EvidenceIN the years 1870 - 71 I drew what afterwards became the Indian Evidence Act (act I of This Act began by repealing (with a few exceptions) the whole of the Law of Evidence then in force in India, and proceeded to te enact it in the form of a code of 167 sections, which has been in operation in India since Sept. 1872. I am informed that it is generally understood, and has required little judicial comm...

Excerpt from A History of the Criminal Law of England, Vol. 2 Certain prosecutions for blasphemous writings and words must be within three months and four days respectively (9 Will. 3, c. 35) Of the offence. Offences against the Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 5) must be prosecuted with in twelve months. Illegal drilling (60 Geo. 3, 1 Geo. 4, c. 1) must be pro scouted within six months. Certain Offences against the Game Laws (9 Geo. 4, c. 69...

Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous WritingsIll, but looks on tempests and is never shaken, because with these the world too rarely blos Were these things visionary and nu.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography In these circumstances I have had to make my choice between publishing an enlarged and corrected edition of those papers, or continuing to appear, to such persons in the United States as are readers of such books, the author of a volume replete with defects and errors. Some of those faults are the result of the mere want of learning and ability to do better, and are therefore incorrigible. But s...

With great energy and clarity, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), author of "History of the Criminal Law of England, " and judge of the High Court from 1879-91, challenges John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and "On Utilitarianism, " arguing that Mill's view of humanity is sentimental and utopian. "His writing is strong meat--full of the threat of hellfrire, the virtue of government by the lash and a fervent belief that the state cannot rema...

Excerpt from The Right Honourable Sir James Stephen It is not, indeed, the form taken by people's opinions. Respecting the mysteries of the Divine Life that chie¿y concerns those who come within their in¿uence. It is rather the manner of working of the Life itself in each heart, the degree in which it is faithfully yielded to, and the nature of the spiritual fruits borne by it, which give to any record of individual experience its value as a ...

Excerpt from Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 2 of 2 About the time when the high-born guests of Whitehall were celebrating the nuptial revels of Elizabeth and the Elector Palatine, and the visitors of low degree were defraying the cost by the purchase of titles and monopolies, there was living at the pleasant village of Eaton Constantine, between the Wrekin Hill and the Severn, a substantial yeoman, incurious alike about the politics...

Excerpt from Essays by a Barrister: Reprinted From the Saturday There are two classes of persons who may not unfairly be described as the scrupulous and the unscrupulous, if we are careful to forget what Bentham would have called the eulogistic and dyslogistic associations which have been gradually affixed to those words. There are men who, though not more pious than their neighbours, are always doubting whether they may do this or that on a ...

Excerpt from A History of the Criminal Law of England, Vol. 3 of 3 It is only by this preliminary analysis of the result that the process by which it was reached can be understood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstr...

Excerpt from The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated, Vol. 2: As It Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared With the Slavery of Other Countries, Ancient and Modern Against some anonymous charges, less vague, arraigning my motives and sincerity, I have already defended myself before the public and my anta gonists have not hazarded a reply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...

Excerpt from A History of the Criminal Law of England, Vol. 1 of 3 This work, which attempts to relate the history of the Criminal Law of England, has a history of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the ...

Excerpt from A Digest: Law of Criminal Procedure in Indictable Offences Art. Page 94. What cases may be ordered to be tried at the Central Criminal Court 57 95. Soldiers committed for the Homicide of other Soldiers 58 part III. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses st...

Excerpt from Lectures on the History of France I trust, also, that I have been regardless of Mr. Macaulay's admonition in appearance rather than in reality. Such rapidity of execution would, indeed, be altogether absurd, if, in giving this volume to the world, I were a candidate for a place in that small and illustrious company of historical writers to which he and Mr. Hallam belong. But to disclaim any such pretension would not be so much su...