PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOLUME VII. :: By WILLIAM WALLER HENING. "The Laws of a country are necessarily connected with every thing be longing to the people of it; so that a thorough knowledge of them, and of their progress would inform us of every thing that was most use- ful to be known about them; and one of the greatest imperfections of historians in general, is owing to their ignorance of law." 1820. |