EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 'THE crime of high treason was not originally included in the plan of this work, on account of the great additional space which the proper discussion of that important subject would have occupied; and because prosecutions for that crime-happily not frequentare always so conducted as to give sufficient time to consult the highest authorities.' These reasons, which were given in the Preface to the First Edition, have still been allowed to operate; and the crime of high treason is not, therefore, one of the subjects discussed in the following pages. The law upon all other indictable offences will, it is hoped, be there found in an appropriate arrangement; and a chapter or book upon the Law of Evidence in criminal prosecutions, which formed a part of the original plan of the work, has now been supplied by the kind assistance of my friend, Mr. E. Vaughan Williams, whose professional attainments abundantly assure the value of the addition. LINCOLN'S INN, May, 1826. WM. OLDN ALL RUSSELL. TABLE OF CONTENTS (1) Rules for Interpretation of Criminal Statutes (2) Vexatious Indictments Acts . (3) Offences committed near Boundaries of Counties and on Taking Objections. 85 PAGE I. Of Counterfeiting or impairing Coin-Of importing into IV. Of uttering, tendering, &c., Counterfeit Coin. (1) Uttering Counterfeit Coin of the Realm (2) Uttering Foreign Counterfeit Coin . CHAPTER PAGE IX. Of neglecting Quarantine, and of spreading Contagious . 269 (2) Spreading Contagion and injuring Public Health 272 X. Of Offences against the Revenue Laws relating to XIII. Of administering or taking Unlawful Oaths 277 (13) Evidence Pleas - Trial - Lord Campbell's |