The English land league is equal to three English statute miles.

It was, however, held to have been superseded by the English Statute, 35.

The penal laws against Roman Catholics had disgraced the English statute-books for two centuries.

There is an English statute governing offences, and every year about 200 cases come up.

There was an English statute against witchcraft, in the reign of Henry VIII., and another in that of Elizabeth.

These forms generally are prescribed by what is called the English statute of frauds, which requires, (1.)

The English statute mile, now obsolete in this country, is indeed just over 1,600 metres.

On one occasion they were discussing the French and English statutes prohibiting the subjects of those powers from holding slaves.

The Dutch and German leagues contain about four geographical miles, or about 4.6 English statute miles.

Nevertheless, the statute-book of every great nation yearly contains many important new laws, and the English statute-book does so above any.

For any effect which it produced it might as well have been in the Code Napoleon as in the English Statute Book.

*{Throughout this narrative distances are given according to our standard, the English statute mile of 5,280 feet.

The first invasion which I find made, by the English statutes, upon this common law principle, was made in I285, seventy years after Magna Carta.

"Not directly; but your allusions and references would be clear to any one having a knowledge of the English statutes."