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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.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

NEWTON STREET, HIGH HOLBORN.

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

Of the Distinction between Crimes and Civil Injuries
Of Misdemeanors and Felonies

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Of Compulsion and Necessity

Of the Incapacity of the Sovereign to commit Crime

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