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Criminal Law. Consult Archbold's Criminal Pleading; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law'; Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law; Russell on Crimes; and see titles ARSON, ASSAULT, BURGLARY, EMBEZZLE-MENT, FALSE PRETENCES, LARCENY, MAN-SLAUGHTER, MURDER, RAPE, TREASON, and WOUNDING.

The body of law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishment for convicted offenders, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.