LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

COMMENTARIES

ON THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND:

In Four Books.

BY

SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, KNT.

ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

A New Edition,

ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE LAW,

BY

ROBERT MALCOLM KERR, LL.D.

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

VOL. IV.

OF PUBLIC WRONGS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1857.