JUSTICE AND POLICE-- PREFACE. debts. Seeing that to ti,eat my huge subject exhaust- ively was out of the question, it has been my endeavour to notice those things which, thougl of common iinport- nnce, may not le pcrfectly well know11 to e7-ery render of nemspnpers-qzon subtirin sed uti.icc, ns nil illnstrious vritcr said when lie nndertook n simila. task six lllindred yesrs ago. l. TIT. 3l- TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE noararx OF ESOLIGH JUSTICE . . . . CIVIL AND CRIblIliAL JUSTICE CHAPTER 11. . . . . CHAPTER 111. TIIE COUNTY COURTS ................. 30 CHAPTER IV. .LAW AXD EQUITY. .................. 31 CHAPTER V. THE HIGH COURT AND THE COURT OF AIlEdL . . . . . . 43 CHAPTER VI. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE CHANCELLOR . . . . . . 57 CHAPTER VII. CIVIL EXECUTIOX asn GAXKRCPTCY .......... 69 PHAPTER VIII. SHE COITKTI MAGISTRACY ............... 79 iii COSTEXTS. CHAPTER IS. PAGE 1OIOIGII .JL.dl.ICI.S ASD PAID MAGISTRATES ....... 94 cHAITER XI. hlIEST, JIAGISTIRIAI. I S I I O X , ASD Uhlll ART JUIISLICTIOS. .................. 118 CIIAPTER XI I I. TIIE CRIMIXAL COURTS ................ 152 CHAPTER XIV. A CRIMINAL TRIAL .................. 162 JUSTICE AND POLICE. CHAPTER I. THE DOMAIN OF ESGLISH JUSTICE. THE word Justice on our title-page mill not lead any English citizen to expect a book on English law in geneisal. Sometimes by this word we seemingly do mean the whole law. Thus when we speak of courts ad- ministering justice we mean that they administer lam. But by coupling Police with Justice we narrow the meaning of the latter word. By the Justice and Police of a country are meant those institutions and processes whereby that countrys law is enforced whereby, foi. example, those who are wronged obtain their legal remedies, and those who commit crimes are brought to their legal punishments. These institutions and processes are themselves fixed and determined by law, but the lam which fixes and determines them is only a part, and a subsidiary part, of the whole law. There is a large body of rules defining crimes and the punish- ments of those who commit them, rights and the remedies of those who are wronged, but there is also a body of rules defining how and by whom, and when and where, rules of the former kind can be put in force, and rules of the latter kind are our subject-matter. Therefore, mere the fiction not too audacious, we might conveniently suppose ourselves to know all the English lam which defines rights and remedies, crimes and punishments the difference, for instance, between manslaughter and murder, between real and personal property, the offences for which a man may be sent into penal servitude, and those for which he may be imprisoned. But there is no need of any such fiction... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.