From Judge Willard. I have examined Mr. Barbour's Treatise, and have a high opinion both of its plan and execution. It embraces a subject of extensive importance, and will be found eminently useful to those who are entrusted with the administration of criminal law. As a compendium of that branch of our jurisprudence, it will be interesting also to the general reader. A work of this kind has long been needed in this state. No lawyer or magistrate will deem his library complete without it. Mr. Barbour has exhibited industry and discrimination in the arrangement of the subject, and the selection of his cases to support the text. It thus becomes valuable as a digest and book of reference. The forms, which are arranged in the appendix, are suf ficiently comprehensive, and are carefully prepared. They add much to the value of the book, especially for justices and others, for whose use they were mainly intended. Saratoga Springs, January 15th, 1841. JOHN WILLARD. W. & A. GOULD & Co. GENT. From Samuel Stevens, Esq. ALBANY, January 21st, 1841. I have perused with attention, and I must add with high gratification, Mr. Barbour's work on criminal law. It is, I believe, the only original work on that branch of the law which has been attempted in this state. So far as my humble opinion can add any thing to the deservedly high reputation of the author for industry and learning, it affords me much pleasure to recommend this book to the profession, as a work every way worthy of the important branch of the law of which it treats. The perspicuous exposition of the principles of criminal law; the clear definition of the various kinds and grades of offences; together with the great variety of precedents for the necessary process and proceedings in the various stages of criminal prosecutions, must render the work invaluable-indeed, almost indispensible to the magistrate who has not had the advantage of a professional education. Respectfully and truly yours, SAMUEL STEVENS. From N. Hill, Jun. Esq. MESSRS. WM. & A. GOULD & Co. AMSTERDAM, January 22d, 1841. Accept my thanks for the opportunity afforded me of perusing Mr. Barbour's forth-coming work on criminal law. I have devoted considerable attention to it, and am gratified to witness the success with which he has explored this hitherto somewhat neglected but eminently interesting and important department of legal science. No other American treatise, upon a similar plan, has, to my knowledge, been given to the public; although the absence of one has long been the subject of regret, and the occasion of serious embarrassment. Mr. Barbour can hardly be too highly commended for having completely obviated, as I think he has, the deficiency mentioned. The volume in question cannot fail to prove a most valuable acquisition to our law libraries; indispensible, indeed, to every professional man, and magistrate, whose duties call them to participate in the adminis tration of criminal justice. Yours, &c. N. HILL, JR. THE MAGISTRATE'S CRIMINAL LAW: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE JURISDICTION, DUTY, AND AUTHORITY OF Justices of the Peace IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, IN CRIMINAL CASES. CONTAINING ALSO A SUMMARY OF THE LAW RELATIVE TO CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS, WITH AN APPENDIX OF FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS. BY OLIVER L. BARBOUR, "To do justice, and execute the law, ALBANY: PUBLISHED BY WM. & A. GOULD & CO. LAW BOOKSELLERS, AND BY GOULD, BANKS & CO. LAW BOOKSELLERS, G. M. Davison, Printer, Saratoga Springs. 1841. 563934 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fortyone, by Wm. and A. Gould & Co. in the office of the Clerk of the Northern Dis. trict of New-York. TO THE HONORABLE ESEK COWEN, ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, THIS WORK, Upon the criminal jurisdiction of a class of officers whose civil jurisdiction has been so ably and elaborately illustrated by himself, IS, WITH HIS PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR. |