EDWARD JENKS, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L.

With the co-operation of the following gentlemen, who have undertaken the revision of portions in which they have special knowledge.

W. ASHBURNER, ESQ., M.A.,

FORMERLY ASSISTANT READER IN EQUITY TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION; Author of "Principles of Equity."

C. A. MONTAGUE BARLOW, ESQ., LL.D.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE AND LINCOLN'S INN.

T.

WILLES CHITTY, ESQ.,

A MASTER OF THE SUPREME COURT.

HUGH FRASER, ESQ., LL.D.,

READER IN COMMON LAW TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

W. M. GELDART, ESQ., M.A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN; FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.

J. M. GOVER, ESQ., LL.D.,

EXAMINER TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION,

W. M. GRAHAM-HARRISON, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN; LATE FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

F. W. HIRST, ESQ., B. A.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

E. M. KONSTAM, ESQ.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE,

J. C. LEDLIE, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L.,

OF H.M. PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE.

ALEXANDER MACMORRAN, ESQ., K.C., M.A.,
One of the Editors of “Lumley's Public Health."

H. STUART MOORE, ESQ.,

One of the Editors of “Abbott's Shipping."

J. A. SIMON, ESQ., M.A.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE; FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

AND

J. ANDREW STRAHAN, ESQ., LL.B.,

ASSISTANT READER IN THE LAW OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCING TO THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

GEORGE HOLDEN, ESQ.,

AND

L. H. WEST, ESQ., LL.D.,

TUTOR TO THE LAW SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM,

SOLICITORS OF THE SUPREME COURT,

[NOTE.-Each of the above-named Assistant-Editors is responsible only for those chapters of the Work to which his name is prefixed in the Table of Contents.]

New Commentaries

ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND

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(PARTLY FOUNDED ON "BLACKSTONE."

BY

HIS HONOUR JUDGE STEPHEN.

"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 knowledge.”—Lord Bacon, Ade, of Learning.

Fourteenth Edition.

UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF

EDWARD JENKS, ESQ., M.A., B.C.L.,

Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law;

PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR OF LEGAL STUDIES TO THE LAW SOCIETY;

READER IN ENGLISH LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, TUTOR AND LECTURER OF
BALLIOL COLLEGE; FORMERLY SENIOR STUDENT AND BARSTOW LAW SCHOLAR
OF THE COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION, AND FELLOW OF

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

THOROUGHLY REVISED AND MODERNISED, AND
BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTH & CO., 12, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR, W.C.

Law Publishers.

LONDON BUTTERWORTH & Co., PRINTERS, 2, CRANE COURT, E.C.

:

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

Book IV.

OF PUBLIC RIGHTS-continued.

PART III.

OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE REALM ...

CHAP. I.

IN GENERAL.

OF CORPORATIONS

[Revised by F. W. HIRST, Esq.]

Of Corporations Aggregate and Sole ...

Of Corporations Ecclesiastical and Lay

Of Corporations Civil and Eleemosynary

Of the Creation of Corporations

...

Of the Capacities and Incapacities of Corporations

Of the Visitation of Corporations ...

Of the Dissolution of Corporations

CHAP. II.

OF LIMITED COMPANIES.

[Revised by F. W. HIRST, Esq.]

Of Companies under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1900

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Of the Formation of such Companies

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Of their Capital

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Of the Liability of Members and Directors

Of Winding-up Proceedings

S.C.--III.

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