By the 9th George the Fourth, cap. 31, sec. 8, it was enacted, that, “where any person being feloniously stricken, poisoned, or otherwise hurt upon the sea, or at any place out of England, should die of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt in England, or being feloniously stricken, poisoned or otherwise hurt at any place in England, should die of such stroke, poisoning, or hurt upon the sea, or at any place out of England, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same amounted to the offence of murder or of manslaughter, or of being accessory before the fact to murder, or after the fact to murder or manslaughter might be dealt with, enquired of, tried, determined, or punished in the county or place in England, in which such death, stroke, poisoning, or hurt should happen, in the same manner, in all respects, as if such offence had been wholly committed in that county or place.” By the 7th George the Fourth, cap. 64, sec. 12, it was enacted, “where a felony or misdemeanour is committed on the boundary of two or more counties, or within the distance of 500 yards of the boundary, or is begun in one county and completed in another, every such felony, &c. may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in any of the said counties, in the same manner as if it had been wholly committed therein.” This enactment extends to the boundaries of counties only, and not to prosecutions in limited jurisdictions. Many difficulties, however, having arisen on the construction of these statutes, as to the jurisdiction of coroner; by the 6 Vic. cap. 12, it was enacted, “That the coroner only within whose jurisdiction the body of any person upon whose death an inquest ought to be holden, shall be lying dead, shall hold the inquest, notwithstanding that the cause of death did not arise within the jurisdiction of such coroner; and in case of any body found dead in the sea, or any creek, river, or navigable canal within the flowing of the sea, where there shall be no deputy coroner for the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, the inquest shall be holden only by the coroner having jurisdiction in the place where the body shall be first brought to land.” And by sec. 2, it is further enacted, “That for the purpose of holding coroners’ inquests, every detached part of a county, riding, or division, shall be deemed to be within that county, riding or division, by which it is wholly surrounded, or where it is partly surrounded by two or more counties, ridings, or divisions, within that one with which it has the longest common boundary.” Sec. 3 provides for the trial of parties on verdicts of murder and manslaughter. Sec. 4, provides for the levying of deodands on verdicts.