in criminal cases; then, the statute 7 & 8 Geo. 4 c. 31, relative to actions and other proceedings against the hundred; and lastly, the stat. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27, which repeals the several statutes, for which the provisions of the above statutes have been substituted. I have not, however, in any instance, altered the arrangement of the sections of these statutes, but have given them in the order and words of the statutes respectively; and after each section I have given the necessary forms of indictments, &c. for the offences defined by it, and the evidence necessary to support them. This, I conceive to be the simplest mode of arrangement I could have adopted. I might indeed have given the whole a more logical and technical arrangement, but at the expense of displacing the different sections of each statute, and of probably rendering the relation of each section to the others of the same statute uncertain. In preparing this work for publication, I have not availed myself of any matter contained in the work already published by me on the Pleas of the Crown. This work is probably familiar to my Readers, and they can readily refer to it, if necessary, for the cases of construction decided upon the repealed statutes; I have found, in the Crown Cases published since the last edition of that work, namely, the reports of Messrs. Russell and Ryan, and Ryan and Moody, abundantly sufficient for my present I at one time entertained the idea of purpose. embodying the matter of the present work in the work to which I have just now alluded; but I found it impracticable: indeed, the very size of this work will at once show the impossibility of ingrafting it upon the other. As to the manner in which I have executed the present work, I shall only say, that I have endeavoured to render it deserving of the same approbation the profession have so kindly conferred upon my other professional works. If it meet with the same favourable reception they have experienced, I shall have very sufficient reason to be satisfied. J. F. A. CONTENTS. 60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 1. An act to prevent the training of persons to the use of arms, and to the practice of military evolutions and exercise 60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8. An act for the more effec- 60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 9. An act to subject certain publications to the duties of stamps upon newspapers, and to make other regulations for restraining the abuses arising from the publication of blasphemous 1 Geo. 4, c. 4. An act for punishing criminally drivers 1 Geo. 4, c. 90. An act to remove doubts, and to remedy defects, in the law, with respect to certain 1 Geo. 4, c. 102. An act for making general the pro- visions of an act made in the forty-sixth year of the reign of his late majesty, for removing difficulties in 1 Geo. 4, c. 115. An act to repeal so much of the several acts passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the fourth of George the First, the fifth and eighth of George the Second, as inflicts capital punishment on certain offences therein 1 Geo. 4, c. 116. An act to repeal so much of the several acts passed in the first and second years of the reign of Philip and Mary, the eighteenth of Charles the Second, the ninth of George the First, and twelfth of George the Second, as inflicts capital punishment on certain offences therein specified.... 61 1 Geo. 4, c. 117. An act to repeal so much of an act passed in the tenth and eleventh years of King Wil- liam the Third, intituled "An act for the better apprehending, prosecuting, and punishing of felons that commit burglary, housebreaking, or robbery in shops, warehouses, or coach-houses, or that steal horses," as takes away the benefit of clergy from persons privately stealing in any shop, warehouse, coach-house, or stable, any goods, wares, or mer- chandizes, of the value of five shillings; and for more effectually preventing the crime of stealing privately 62 |