THE HISTORY OF THE PLEAS OF THE CROWN BY Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. SOME TIME LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH. FIRST PUBLISHED FROM HIS LORDSHIP'S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, AND THE SEVERAL REFER- SOLLOM EMLYN OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQ. WITH A TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS. First American Edition. WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES TO LATER CASES Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1847, by ROBERT H. SMALL, In the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS. A. Bac. Abr., Bacon's Abridgment. B. & Ad., Barnewall & Adolphus Re- B. & C., Barnewall & Creswell Reports, (King's Bench). Barr, State Reports, (Pennsylvania). Pleas). Binn., Binney Reports, (Pennsylvania). Br., Browne Reports. (Pennsylvania). ་ Car. 1.) Burn, Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. Burr., Burrow Reports, (King's Bench). C. Caines, Reports, (New York), Call, Reports, (Virginia). Camp., Campbell Reports, (Nisi Prius). Cam. & Nor., Cameron & Norwood Reports, (N. Carolina.) Car. C. L., Carrington's Criminal Law. C. & K., Carrington & Kirwan Reports, (Nisi Prius). C. & M., Carrington & Marshman Rcports, (Nisi Prius). C. & P., Carrington & Payne Reports, (Nisi Prius). Car. Law Repos., Carolina Law Repository. Carth., Carthew Reports, (King's Bench,) 66 66 Chit. C. L., Chitty's Criminal Law. Cobb. St. Tr., Cobbett State Trials. Cond. R., Condensed Reports, (Supreme Conf. R., Conference Reports, (North Carolina). Conn., Connecticut Reports. Const. R., Constitutional Reports, (South Cooke, Reports, (Tennessee). |