A treatise of the pleas of the crown; or, A system of the principal matters relating to that subject, digested under proper heads. In two books
By: By William Hawkins, serjeant at law
Edition: The sixth edition, / in which the text is carefully collated with the original work; the marginal references corrected; new references from the modern reporters added; a variety of manuscript cases inserted; and the whole enlarged by an incorporation of the several statutes upon subjects of criminal law, to the twenty-seventh year of George the Third. To which and explanatory preface is prefixed, and new and copious indexes are subjoined. By Thomas Leach, Esq. of the Middle Temple, barrister at law.
Publisher: Printed for His Majesty's law-printers.; Published for the editor; Thomas Whieldon, bookseller
Published: 1787
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Pleas of the crown; Early works to 1800; Criminal law
Other titles: System of the principal matters relating to that subject, digested under proper heads
Notes: "Price One Pound Eight Shillings in Boards."

Vol. 1 title page misdated 1777.

Editor's dedication dated 1787.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ESTC N13973