[50] Mr Chitty. Townsend, i. p. 209.
[51] 4 Black. Com. p. 199.
[52] 1 Townsend, p. 215, 216.
[53] Ibid. p. 210.
[54] For misdemeanour, a peer has no such privilege, but must be tried by a jury.
[55] 20th February 1841.
[56] The mode of appointing this high officer, and of constituting the court, will be found explained at length in Blackstone's Commentaries.—Vol. iv. p. 259, et seq.
[57] The meaning of this observation is, that the privilege of not answering questions tending to criminate the witness belongs to the witness, and not to the parties wherefore the objection to such questions ought to come from the witness, and not from the counsel for either of the parties.
[58] Townsend, vol. i. p. 229.
[59] Townsend, p. 239, 240, 241.