NEW

COMMENTARIES

ON

THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.

(PARTLY FOUNDED ON BLACKSTONE.)

"For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking, by the order and perspicuous expressing

of that I do propound, I am otherwise zealous and affectionate to recede as little from
antiquity, either in terms or opinions, as may stand with truth, and the proficience of know-
"ledge."—Lord Bac. Adv, of Learning.

The Seventh Edition,

BY

JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ., LL.D.,

JUDGE OF COUNTY COURTS,

LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LAW AT KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON,

AND FORMERLY RECORDER OF POOLE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,
Law Publishers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.

HODGES, FOSTER & CO., GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN.

CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO. BOMBAY THACKER, VINING & CO.
MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH AND SONS,

NEWTON STREET, HIGH HOLBORN.

Of the early Law of Settlement, Relief and Removal..

Of the present Law of Settlement, Relief and Removal.

Of the Poor Rate..

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CHAP. III.

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO CHARITIES AND BENEVOLENT

INSTITUTIONS.

Of Charities; Of the Statutes and General Principles of the Law

Of Parliamentary Grants for the Purposes of Education..

Of Pauper Schools

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OF THE LAWS RELATING TO LUNATIC ASYLUMS, AND THEIR

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO NAVIGATION-AND TO THE MERCANTILE

Of the Ownership, Registration, and Transfer of Merchant Ships

Of the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen

OF THE LAWS RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE

Of" The Public Health Act (1848)"

Of the Local Government Acts

Of "The Diseases Prevention Act (1855)"

Of "The Nuisances Removal Act for England (1855)”

Of the Local Government Board

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