THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. BY DR. EDWARD FISCHEL. TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION, BY RICHARD JENERY SHEE, "Non omnis arctatio privat libertatem, (Political Poem of the 13th Century.) TAZIONALE LONDON: BOSWORTH AND HARRISON, 215, REGENT STREET. 1863. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. THE present volume is substantially a translation of Dr. Edward Fischel's "Verfassung Englands," a work which has obtained considerable popularity in Germany. The first edition, published in 1862, was speedily exhausted, and a second edition was urgently called for, upon which latter this translation is based. Although the Author is thoroughly at home in his subject, having availed himself of the best text-books and, with great assiduity and laboriousness, consulted the most reliable authorities, he has, as might well be expected while treating of our complicated judicial system, fallen into occasional errors. To have allowed these to appear in the English translation, would inevitably have impaired the credit of an otherwise valuable treatise. Such modifications as were deemed necessary have accordingly been introduced. It affords matter for congratulation that an impartial survey of that system which the enlightened efforts of Englishmen have secured for themselves should have been presented, with such completeness, to the admiration of a kindred race. The portions of the work, however, which were merely intended to impress |