The penal statutes abridged , and alphabetically arranged. Calculated to serve the desirable End of AN Alphabetical Common Place Book Of The Penal Laws. Exhibiting, At One View, The Nature of the Offence; the Penalty annexed to it, for the first, second, and third Offence; the Number of Witnesses and Magistrates necessary to conviction; the Application of the Penalty; the Manner of prosecuting and recovering the Penalty. To Which IS Prefixed, A Collection of Maxims and Rules for the proper Exposition of Statutes; the Whole being essentially necessary for the due Administration of public Justice. Dedicated To The Magistrates Of Great-Britain. By George Clark, Esq.

Date:

1777