Commentaries on the Laws of England

ON

THE LAWS OF ENGLAND:

IN FOUR BOOKS;

WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORK.

BY

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, KNT,

ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

WITH THE LAST CORRECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES,
From the Twenty-first London Edition.

WITH COPIOUS NOTES EXPLAINING THE CHANGES IN THE LAW EFFECTED
BY DECISION OR STATUTE DOWN TO 1844.

VOL. FIRST, BY J. F. HARGRAVE,
OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. SECOND, BY G. SWEET,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. THIRD, BY R. COUCH,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL FOURTH, BY W. N. WELSBY,

RECORDER OF CHESTER.

TOGETHER WITH NOTES ADAPTING THE WORK TO THE AMERICAN STUDENT.

BY JOHN L. WENDELL,

LATE STATE REPORTER OF NEW YORK.

IN FOUR VOLUME S.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1854.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.

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