Description:Excerpt from Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 It may be proper to add, for the information of foreign as well as some English readers, that the administration of the criminal law of this country has been altered in various particulars specified in the ensuing pages. At the period, however, at which the events in this tale are sup posed to have happened, the criminal law was administered as there repre sented. It must not, however, be supposed that the law of murder, and its capital punishment, have undergone any change but the sanguinary character of our criminal law, at the period referred to, and which is pointedly indicated by a passage to be found in the eighteenth chapter, * has yielded to the humane and benignant spirit of modern legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Excerpt from Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 It may be proper to add, for the information of foreign as well as some English readers, that the administration of the criminal law of this country has been altered in various particulars specified in the ensuing pages. At the period, however, at which the events in this tale are sup posed to have happened, the criminal law was administered as there repre sented. It must not, however, be supposed that the law of murder, and its capital punishment, have undergone any change but the sanguinary character of our criminal law, at the period referred to, and which is pointedly indicated by a passage to be found in the eighteenth chapter, * has yielded to the humane and benignant spirit of modern legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Works of Samuel Warren, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.