[105] History of Criminal Law, iii. 299.

[106] Life of Lord Mayo, ii. 199.

[107] History of Criminal Law, ii. 300-303.

[108] 'Obsolete Enactments Bill,' February 25, 1870.

[109] Mayo, ii. 220.

[110] The parties had also to be of certain ages, not already married, and not within certain degrees of relationship.

[111] See the account of this in History of Criminal Law, iii. 324-346.

[112] History of Criminal Law, iii. 345.

[113] Digest of the Law of Evidence. Fourth edition, 1893, pp. 156-9.

[114] An edition of the Evidence Code, with notes by Sir H. S. Cunningham, reached a ninth edition in 1894. It gives the changes subsequently made, which are not numerous or important.