Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes

Coverage: 1 v. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1883.

Additional Information: "[The questions discussed in this volume are] an exposition of the general principles of statutory interpretation, which, since they are in the main the same in criminal cases and in civil, extends necessarily into the civil department; elucidations of the principles of interpretation special to the criminal law, with their specific applications ; such topics as the Statute of Limitations in criminal causes, pleadings upon private statutes and municipal by-laws, and some others of the like kind; and, finally, discussions of the offences which are purely or in substance statutory, in distinction from mere statutory extensions of common-law crimes." (iii)

Volumes:

1 (1883)
1 (1873)
1 (1901)