Sicut in facti quæstionibus id pro vero habetur unde plures maximeque idonei
stant testes, ita sententiarum eas sequendas, quæ plurimis præstantissimisque
nitantur auctoribus.
GROTIUS, de Jure Belli ac Pacis.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN,

LAW-PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY;

FOR JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH AND SON,

LAW-BOOKSELLERS, 43. FLEET-STREET.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY

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JUL 15 1901

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ROBERT PEEL,

HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT,

&c. &c. &c.

THIS VOLUME

IS

MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED;

IN

SINCERE ADMIRATION

OF THE ENLIGHTENED PRINCIPLES

WHICH LEAD HIM TO INVESTIGATE AND TO REMEDY

THE DEFECTS

IN OUR LAWS AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS,

AND

OF THE JUDGMENT AND DISCRETION

BY WHICH

HIS MEASURES OF IMPROVEMENT

ARE

MATURED AND DIRECTED.