''A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanours'' or ''Russell on Crime'' is a book originally written by

William Oldnall Russell Sir William Oldnall Russell (1785– 22 January 1833) was the Chief Justice of the Surpreme Court at Calcuta. Life He was born in 1785, the eldest son of Samuel Oldnall, rector of St. Nicholas, Worcester, and North Piddle, and Mary, daughter of Wi ...

. For the purpose of citation, its name may be abbreviated to Russ Cr. Russell's ''Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanours'', which appeared in 1819 in two volumes in

octavo Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multip ...

, was pronounced by Warren (Law Student, 2nd edit. p. 620) "the best general treatise in criminal law". A second edition appeared in 1827; a third, edited by C. S. Greaves, in 1843, with a supplement in 1851; a fourth, in 3 volumes, in 1865; and a fifth, edited by S. Prentice, Q.C., in 1877. The American editions, of which seven were issued between 1824 and 1853, do not reproduce the whole work. In 1847, J G Marvin said of the third London and fifth American editions: The most recent edition of ''Russell on Crime'' was the twelfth edition, which was published in 1964.

References

*Marke (ed). A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University. Law Center of New York University. New York. 1953. Law Book Exchange Ltd. Union, New Jersey. 1999
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*Linsay Farmer, "Of Treatises and Textbooks" in Fernandez and Dubber (eds). Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise. Hart Publishing. Oxford and Portland, Oregon. 2012. Page
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to 156. *Lindsay Farmer. Making the Modern Criminal Law. Oxford University Press. 2016. Page
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and 147.

Editions

*First Edition. London. 1819
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*First American Edition. 1824. Vol
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*Second Edition. London. 1826
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*Third Edition. London. 1843. Vols

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*Sixth American Edition. 1850. Vol
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*Eighth American Edition. 1857. Vol
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*Fourth Edition (1865) C. S. Greaves *Fifth Edition (1877) S. Prentice *Sixth Edition (1896) Horace Smith and A. P. P. Keep *Seventh Edition (1909) W. F. Craies and L. W. Kershaw *Eighth Edition (1923) R. E. Ross and G. B. McClure *Ninth Edition 1936) R. E. Ross *Tenth Edition (1950) J. W. Cecil Turner *Eleventh Edition. 1958, 2 volumes,Wildy & Sons Booksellers
"Russell on Crime 11th ed"
Stevens & Sons Ltd, 1964. *Twelfth Edition. 1964, 2 volumes, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, 1964.Wildy & Sons Booksellers
"Russell on Crime 12th ed"
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Reviews

*Daniel Davis (1825) 20 ''North American Review'' 22
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*(1853) 1 ''American Law Register'' 44
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*W B L (1896) 35 ''American Law Register and Review'' (New Series) 679 (Old Series volume 44
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*P W H (1924) 2 ''Cambridge Law Journal'' 12
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*J W C T (1937) 6 ''Cambridge Law Journal'' 28
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*(1937) 2 ''University of Toronto Law Journal'' 20
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* A Ll A (1952) 11 ''Cambridge Law Journal'' 31
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*C (1952) 15 ''Modern Law Review'' 26
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* Francis A Allen (1952) 43 ''Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science'' 22
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*Walter P Armstrong Jr (1959) 45 ''ABA Journal'' 19
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*C (1959) 22 ''Modern Law Review'' 70
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*Rupert Cross (1964) 22 ''Cambridge Law Journal'' 28
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*Richard F Sparks (1965) 28 ''Modern Law Review'' 49
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Footnotes

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