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5. The Code itself, consisting of so many Section.
The First Section is intituled the Introduction, and is
chiefly Historical. The remaining Sections, excepting the
Last, contain the Digest of Judicial Decisions, and the
Consolidation of the Enactments. The Consolidated Enactments
are first expressed in the language of the statues
themselves, and then are Condensed.
In these Sections it will be noticed, that the Quotations
from the Text Writers are placed sometimes in the Body of
the Code, sometimes in the Note below. Those in the
Note below are either Historical, or from Writers now living,
and who, consequently, cannot be quoted as authority.
The Last Section gives a Summary of the Law, as contained
in the preceding Sections, excepting the First, and
suggests certain Alterations in that law.
6. Then comes the Verbal Index of Reference.
7. And lastly, the Appendix, containing the Process by
which the Enactments have been Consolidated. A General
Explanation of this Process will be found in the Report of
the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the
Criminal Law of England, dated the 2d of April, 1824.
Besides this Code, there are a series of Papers, bound
in a Blue Cover, intituled, "The Consolidation of the
Criminal Law: Offences against Property." The Preface
to these Papers will explain their Nature and Extent:
particular attention is requested to that Preface.
The Distribution of these Documents has been much the
same as of those printed under the Record Commission, (a)
(a) See the Appendix infra.
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