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examined into by that Committee, have been collected from the best 

 practical som'ces at my command ; and to the tiX'iitlemen who have so 

 nngiiidgingly lent me their assistance in the getting up of this very 

 arduous chapter, I beg to tender my most liearty thanks. The opening 

 of it was adopted almost word for word from the Keport itself, as I felt 

 it impossible to state the general principle in more concise or fairer 

 terms. 



1 have thus endeavoured to supply what always struck me as a want 

 both in legal and country lil^raries, and I trust that I shall not be found 

 to have laboured in vain. 



HENRY UALL DIXON. 

 Eldon CHAMKiiiis. Temple, 

 ^Itt'j. 7(h, 1858. 



