A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings, and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes as to Each Particular Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment ...A. J. Valpy ... Sold by Messrs. Butterworth and Son ... ; Longman and Company, ...; R. Pheney ... [and four others in London]; and in Dublin by J. Cook, 1816 - 634 pages |
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