PRINTED BY HIGGINBOTHAM & CO., MADRAS.

Rec. Nov. 17, 1905

PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.

THE present edition has been carefully revised throughout, with reference to the changes in law and procedure introduced by the Indian Evidence Act and the Criminal Procedure Code of 1872. The most recent English and Indian decisions are incorporated, and considerable additions have been made to the notes. Purchasers are requested to note up the further references contained in the Addenda.

5, CHILD'S PLACE, TEMPLE,

1st August, 1874.

JOHN D. MAYNE.

EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS.

A. & E.

Adolphus and Ellis' Reports.

Alison's Cr. L..... Alison's Criminal Law of Scotland.

Archbold's Criminal Law, 15th Edition, 1862,
Barnewall and Alderson's Reports.

Barnewall and Adolphus' Reports.
Barnewall and Cresswell's Reports.
Bell's Crown Cases.
Bengal Constructions.
Bengal Law Reports.
Bengal Law Reports.

Full Bench Rulings. Appellate Criminal Jurisdiction.

Original Criminal Jurisdiction.

Best and Smith's Queen's Bench Reports.

Bingham's New Cases.

Bishop's Criminal Law.

Reports of the Bombay High Court Criminal
Cases.

Campbell's Nisi Prius Reports.
Common Bench Reports.

New Series.

Mad. F. U.

..

Foujdary Court.
High Court.

Mad. H. C.

Mad. Jur.

Mad. Rev. Reg.
M. & G...

MacNaght. M. L.

Mood. C. C.

M. I. A.

M. Dig..

N. A..

Phill. Int. L.

Madras Jurist.

Madras Revenue Register.

Manning and Granger's Reports.

Macnaghten's Moohummedan Law. Edition 1860.
Moody's Criminal Cases.

Moore's Indian Appeal Cases.

Morley's Digest of Indian Cases.

Nizamut Adawlut Reports, Bengal.

Phillimore's International Law.

Queen's Bench Reports.

Revenue Civil and Criminal Reporter (Calcutta.)

Criminal Rulings.

....

....

Sm. Merc. L...
Stark. Pl.

Story, Confl. L..
Stra.

Stra. H. L.

دو

rences.

Civil Rulings.

Revenue, Judicial, and Police Journal, Calcutta.
Roscoe's Nisi Prius. Edition 1851.

Russel on Crimes and Misdemeanours. 4th Ed.
1865.

Russell and Ryan's Nisi Prius Reports.
Salkeld's Reports.

Savigny Modern Roman Law.

Smith's Leading Cases. Edition 1867.

Smith's Mercantile Law.

Edition 1859.

Starkie's Criminal Pleading.

Story's Conflict of Laws. Edition 1857.
Strange's Reports in the King's Bench.

Sir Thomas Strange's Hindu Law. Edition 1830.