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Excerpt from Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1 of 4: Partly Founded on Blackstone
All passages, then, which appeared to me to fall under either of the descriptions above given, I have made it my principle to retain; but my deviations from the original work have, nevertheless, been frequent and extensive. Independently of certain objections to its arrangement (to which I shall presently revert), its exposition Of particular sub jects appeared to me to be often deficient in depth in fulness, or in precision, and in some instances to be even chargeable with positive inaccuracy so that, as I had prescribed to myself the rule of de parting from Blackstone wherever I felt dissatisfied with his performance as well as where any change in the law had made a departure indispensable, it is seldom that I have been able to pursue the text for several pages in succession, without the intro duction (more or less extensively) Of matter from my own pen. Large portions, indeed, of original composition will be found frequently to occur in a continuous form and even where the text of my predecessor is pursued with shorter interruption.
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