CROWN CASES

RESERVED FOR CONSIDERATION;

AND

DECIDED BY

THE TWELVE JUDGES OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE YEAR 1799 TO THE YEAR 1824.

BY

WILLIAM OLDNALL RUSSELL

AND

EDWARD RYAN,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, ESQRS., barristers at Law.

Sicut in facti quæstionibus id pro vero habetur unde plures maximeque idone 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.

1825.

то

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.