14 _Geo._ 3, _c._ 49. An act for regulating Mad-houses 170 Report of the Select Committee appointed to consider the validity of the doctrine of contagion in the Plague, 14th June, 1809 185 _Chorley_, M.D. _v._ _Bolcot_, executor 187 _Lipscombe_, _v._ _Holmes_, Esq. 189 _Slater_, _v._ _Baker_ and _Stapleton_, C. B. 189 _Seare_ against _Prentice_ 194 APPENDIX. PART II. _Severn, v. Olive_ 201 Two notes on the legal time for Human Birth, (from _Hargrave’s_ Jurisconsult Exercitations) 209 APPENDIX. PART III. The determination of the College concerning the questions proposed to them by the King’s Majestie about the death of _Joseph Lane_ 225 Case of _Standsfield_. Edin. Dec. 1, 1687 227 Report of the Chirurgeons of Edinburgh on the same case 228 Report of the College of Physicians 229 Extract of the medical evidence in the case of _Spencer Cowper, Esq._ for the murder of _Sarah Stout_ 230 Extract from the evidence of Doctor _Anthony Addington_, on the trial of _Mary Blandy_, at Oxford, 1752, for the murder of her father by Arsenic 236 Extracts from the evidence delivered on the trial of _John Donellan, Esq._ for the wilful murder, by poison, of _Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart._ at the Assizes of Warwick, March 30, 1781 243 Extracts from the evidence delivered on the trial of _Robert Sawle Donnall_, Surgeon and Apothecary, for the wilful murder, by poison, of his mother-in-law, Mrs. _Elizabeth Downing_, widow, at the Assizes at Launceston, March 31, 1817 277 The defence of _Eugene Aram_ for the murder of _Daniel Clarke_ 311 ERRATA. VOL. I. Page 176, note (_a_) after _Greenstreet_ and, insert _Greenstreet_. Page 177, note (_a_) for _majorum_ read _magorum_. Page 235, note (_b_) for _primes_ read _primis_. Page 437, line 21, for _violation_ read _volition_. VOL. II. Page 188, line 2, for _Nicholls_ read _Mitchell_. Page 362, line 16, for 301 read 303. Page 347, line 19, for _portable_ read _potable_. VOL. III. Index, for p. 156-184, read 320-348. INTRODUCTION.