PREFACE. "THE STUDENT'S BLACKSTONE" is, as the title-page imports, an abridgment of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, with such alterations as the legislative changes of the last century have made necessary. The reader ought, therefore, to find in the following pages an outline of the existing law of England, however concisely it may be stated. Of the success of the Editor in accomplishing his task, those for whose hands the book is intended will be best able to judge. TEMPLE, January 1877. |