PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. 



and Loans (Infants) Act of the same year, have 

 also been incorporated, in so far as they affect the 

 subject-matter of the work. 



Independently of legislation, the decisions upon 

 the various subjects dealt with have been suffi- 

 ciently numerous to involve considerable altera- 

 tions in and additions to the text, but these, 

 owing to the amount of obsolete or inappropriate 

 matter which has been eliminated, have been 

 effected, so far as regards Parts I. and II., 

 without any corresponding increase of bulk. 



With regard to Part III., dealing with the law 

 relating to Pacing, Gaming, and Wagers, the altera- 

 tions are of a more extensive nature, the Gaming 

 Act, 1892, and the numerous decisions upon the 

 construction of several of the other statutes by 

 which the law upon these subjects is regulated, 

 having rendered it necessary to re-write and very 

 considerably enlarge the greater part of this portion 

 of the work. 



The Appendix has been very considerably cur- 

 tailed, and is now confined to the more important 

 and voluminous of the statutes referred to in the 

 text, and these appear in a somewhat mutilated 

 condition, owing to the pruning involved by the 



