A digest of the stamp laws and complete stamp table : being that part of the English code which relates to stamps : simplified and explained, and the various statutes consolidated, and systematically arranged, and reduced into a regular and comprehensive system. Showing, at one view, under distinct heads, the various stamp duties now payable; the origin, progress, and present state of those duties; the different assessments; the statutes imposing the fame; the period of their commencement, and the particular laws, regulations, restrictions, and penalties applying thereto with a representative of the dies appropriate to instructions most in request; and particularizing the specific duty applicable to Scotland. The whole illustrated with practical annotations, Opinions of Counsel, and extracts from cases argued in the different courts of judicature. Also, a copious index. Dedicated by permission to the Commissioners of Stamps / by J.A. Heraud.