ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND;

IN FOUR BOOKS.

By SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Knight,

ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF HIS MAJESTY'S COURT OF COMMON Pleas

TOGETHER WITH

SUCH NOTES OF ENDURING VALUE AS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN

THE SEVERAL ENGLISH EDITIONS.

AND ALSO

A COPIOUS ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS:

And Additional Notes with References to English and American Decisions and Statutes,
to date, which Illustrate or Change the Law of the Text; also, a
Full Table of Abbreviations, and

SOME CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE STUDY OF THE LAW.

BY THOMAS M. COOLEY,

JAY PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND AUTHOR of
"CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS."

Entered according to act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and seventy.

BY CALLAGHAN & COCKCROFT,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two,

BY CALLAGHAN & CO.,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS,

PRINTERS, STEREOTYPERS AND BINDers,

ALBANY, NEW YORK.

CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME.

BOOK III. OF PRIVATE WRONGS.

PAGE.

Of the Redress of Private Wrongs by the mere act of the Parties,.

Of Redress by the mere Operation of Law,..

1

18

III.

Of Courts in General,...

22

IV. Of the Public Courts of Common Law and Equity,

30

V. Of Courts Ecclesiastical, Military and Maritime,

61

VI. Of Courts of a Special Jurisdiction,..

71

VII. Of the Cognizance of Private Wrongs..

86

VIII. Of Wrongs and their Remedies, respecting the Rights of Persons,.. 115

IX. Of Injuries to Personal Property,..

144

X. Of Injuries to Real Property, and first, of Dispossession, or Ouster,

of the Freehold,.

XVII. Of Injuries proceeding from or affecting the Crown,..

XVIII. Of the Pursuit of Remedies by Action; and first, of the Original

Proceedings on an Action of Trespass in Ejectment, by Original in

the King's Bench,..

460

III. Proceedings on an Action of Debt in the Court of Common Pleas,

removed into the King's Bench by Writ of Error.....

IX. Of Misprisons and Contempts affecting the King and Government,.. 119

X. Of Offences against Public Justice,..

XI. Of Offences against the Public Peace,.

127

142