NEW COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. (PARTLY FOUNDED ON BLACKSTONE.) "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 Seventh Edition, BY JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ., LL.D., JUDGE OF COUNTY COURTS, LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LAW AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON, AND FORMERLY RECORDER OF POOLE. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Publishers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty. HODGES, FOSTER & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO. BOMBAY THACKER, VINING & CO. MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. Of the Distinction between Crimes and Civil Injuries Of Compulsion and Necessity Of the Incapacity of the Sovereign to commit Crime Of Obtaining Money by False Personation Of Obtaining Money by False Pretences Of Fraudulent Concealment of Deeds, or Falsification of Pedigree Of Contempts against the Crown's Ecclesiastical Supremacy Of Contempts against the Royal Palaces Of Unlawful Oaths, and Illegal Societies |