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. IV. 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, CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. Book VI. OF CRIMES. Of Compulsion and Necessity Of the Incapacity of the Sovereign to commit Crime CHAP. III. Of Contempts against the Title of the Sovereign Of Contempts against the Crown's Ecclesiastical Supremacy Of Contempts against the Royal Palaces Of Offences relating to the Royal Stores, Ships, &c. Of Desertion, or Seducing to Desert Of Unlawful Oaths, and Illegal Societies Of Miscellaneous Contempts against the Prerogative |