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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 4

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Sir William Blackstone

Thomas B. Wait & Company, 1807 - Law

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BOOK IV	1

Of the Persons Capable of committing Crimes	19

Of Principals and Accessories	34

Of Offences against God and Religion	41

Of Offences against the Law of Nations	73

Of High Treason	81

Of Felonies injurious to the Kings Prerogative 15	94

Of Praemunire	102

Of Offences against Private Property	229

Of the means of Preventing offences	251

Of Courts of a Criminal Jurisdiction	258

Of Summary Conviction	280

Of Arrests	289

Of Commitment and Bail	296

Of Process upon an Indictment	315

Of Plea and Issue	331

Of Misprisions and Contempts affecting the King and Government	119

Of Offences against Public Justice	127

Of Offences against the Public Peace	142

Of Offences against Public Trade	154

Of Offences against the Public Health and the Public Police	160

Of Homicide	175

Of Offences against the Persons of Individuals	205

Of Offences against the Habitations of Individual	220

Of Trial and Conviction coziemcg	342

Of the Benefit of Clergy	365

Of Judgment and its Consequences	375

Of Reversal of Judgment	390

Of Execution	403

APPENDIX	i

ral Gaoldelivery in London and Middlesex	vi

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William Blackstone
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Title	Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 4 Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Edward Christian
Author	Sir William Blackstone
Editor	Edward Christian
Publisher	Thomas B. Wait & Company, 1807
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	7 Nov 2008

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