The Laws, Customs, and Privileges, and Their Administration in the Island of Jersey

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Excerpt from The Laws, Customs, and Privileges, and Their Administration in the Island of Jersey: With Notices of Guernsey, Also a Commentary on Certain Abuses, and a Petition to Parliament for a Reform of the Same My connexion with the public Press for a period of nearly ten years, during which I edited two weekly Journals, whose columns were chie¿y devoted to the localities of the Island, and in which the proceedings df the Legislature and Court of Justice, formed a leading feature, enables me, per haps, Without much ostentation, to lay claim to some know ledge of the laws, customs and privileges of the country, and to form a tolerably correct judgment of the manner in which they are administered. These matters have, with me, been the subject of very considerable research. I have had some of the most valuable manuscripts in the Island at my disposal, to collect materials from, as well as the Code 'of Laws, sundry Orders in Council, Acts of the States, judgments of the Court, which I have translated into the English language, and to these I may add, numerous Acts of Par liament, that apply to the Island, and decisions of English Courts, on points of foreign and international law all of which are now brought together in a popular form, with occasional remarks. I have made the matter thus varied, in order that this Book should be the more serviceable, for I found it necessary to explain the English laws which bear on the Island, to the Jersey reader, as well as the Jersey laws to the English reader and having made the former my study as well as the latter, I have endeavoured to point out. Their difference, so as to simplify a comprehension of both in their relative bearings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.