V. & R. STEVENS AND G. S. NORTON, BELL YARD ; BELL YARD. 1857. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. Is preparing the fourth edition of this work for the press, I have endeavoured to make it as useful and complete a manual as possible of the branch of law of which it treats. Where important principles have been laid down by the Court of Criminal appeal, they will be found stated in the very language used by the Judges. I may refer to the learned and elaborate judgment of Baron Parke in Thurburn's case (post, p. 581), upon the law of larceny where goods come into possession of a person by finding, as an example. The statutes 14 & 15 Vict. c. 19, "an Act for the better prevention of offences;" the 14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, "an Act for the further improving the administration of criminal justice;" the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 99," an Act to substitute in certain cases other punishment in lieu of transportation;" and the 18 & 19 Vict. c. 126, " an Act for diminishing expense and delay in the administration of criminal justice in certain cases;" are so constantly referred to in practice, that I have thought it would be convenient to insert them at length in an appendix. TEMPLE, D. P. |