Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Statement of the subject of the work; 2. Roman criminal law; 3. Early English criminal law; 4. The ordinary criminal courts; 5. The criminal jurisdiction of Parliament and the court of the Lord High Steward; 6. The criminal jurisdiction of the Privy Council; 7. History of the law of criminal procedure; 8. History of the law of criminal procedure (cont.); 9. History of the law of criminal procedure (cont.); 10. History of the law of criminal procedure (cont.); 11. History of criminal trials in England from 1554–1760; 12. Description of modern criminal trials; 13. History of legal punishments; 14. Management of prosecutions; 15. General of comparative view of English and French criminal procedure.

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Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.