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Stamps, forgery of, iv. 291.
Standard of coin, i. 274.

of weights and measures, i. 270. Standing armies, i. 419, 420.

Standing mute, iv. 384.

Stannary courts, iii. 85.

Staple commodities, i. 308.

Star-chamber, court of, i. 221; iv. 312.
Statues, public, injuring, iv. 153, 289.
Statute, i. 68.

equity of, i. 46.

how passed, i. 170. law, i. 68.

Statute, de donis, ii. 109. merchant, ii. 156. staple, ii. 156.

Statute of frauds, iii. 166.

Statutes, construction of, i. 70.
how enrolled, i. 170.
of limitations, iii. 332.
of mortmain, i. 509.
promulgation of, i, 174,
preambles of, i. 45.

penal, how construed, i. 71.
Statutory deeds, ii. 341.
Stealing an heiress, iv. 233.
Sterling, i. 274.

Steward, i. 437.

Steward, Lord High, court of the, iv. 307.
Steward of Household, court of, iv. 325.
Stipend, curate's remedy for non-pay-
ment of, iii. 97.
Stirpes, claim per, ii. 207.

Stock, in the funds or public companies,
how charged with judgment debt, iii.

454.

Stolen goods, sale of, ii. 461.

helping to, offence of, iv. 36. receiving, iv. 137.

restitution of, iv. 429. Stoppage in transitu, ii. 459.

Stores of war, offences relating to, iv. 104. Stranger, when his goods or cattle may be distrained, iii. 8.

may have an action against tenant, iii. 8.

Strangers to a fine, ii. 357.

Subpana, writ of, in Chancery, iii. 56,

513.

to hear judgment, iii. 521. Subsidies, ecclesiastical, i. 305. lay, i. 302.

on exports and imports, i. 309.

Subtraction of fealty, suit of court and

rent, iii. 241.

remedy by distress, iii. 242.
by action, iii. 242.

Subtraction of legacies, iii. 104.

of services, iii. 245.

of tithes, iii. 94.

Succession to the Crown, history of, i.

185.

hindering the, iv. 84. Succession duties, i. 318.

Succession, rules of, arbitrary, ii. 12.

title to personalty by, ii. 441.
Sufferance, estate at, ii. 147.
Suggestion, of error, iii. 444.

of death of parties, &c., iii. 464.
Suit in equity, proceedings in, iii. 512.
Summary convictions, iv. 328.
Summing up evidence, iii. 407.
Summons to Parliament, i. 135.
Summons, writ of, iii. 293.

renewal of, iii. 305.
service of, iii. 306.

Summons, proceeding by, in Chancery, iii. 530.

Summons to appear before a justice, iv.
329.

Sunday, profanation of, iv. 59.
Supersedeas, writ of, i. 348.
Superstitious uses, ii. 267.
Supplemental bill in Chancery, iii. 519.
Supplies, i. 302, 306.

appropriation of, i. 321, 328.
Supremacy, oath of, i. 148, 369.
Supreme power, its right to legislate,
i. 38.

Supreme magistrates, 132.
Sureties of the peace, iv. 299.

for good behaviour, iv. 301.

Surgeon, liable for negligence or unskilfulness, iii. 129.

Striking in Superior Courts, offence of, Surrebutter, iii. 339.

iv. 127.

Study of the law, causes of its neglect, i. 10.

Stupifying by drugs, iv. 231.

Sub-infeudation, statute against, ii. 89. Submission to arbitration not revocable, iii. 17.

Subornation of perjury, iv. 142.

Surrenders, ii. 322.

surrender in law, ii. 323.

surrender of copyholds, ii. 371, 374. Sursumredditio, ii. 371.

Surveyors of highways, i. 353.
Survivorship, ii. 178.

Sussex, marriage of Duke of, i. 215.
Swans, ii. 399.

Subpana ad testificandum, writ of, iii. 398. Swearing and cursing, iv. 55.

Sweinmote, Court of, iii. 79.

Syngrapha, ii. 291.

Synods, i. 275.

TAIL, general and special, ii. 160.

Tales, of jurors, iii. 392.

in criminal cases, iv. 416.

Talliage, i. 304.

Tanistry, ii. 83.
Tariff, i. 307.

Taxation, by the House of Commons, i. 154.

principle of imposition of, i. 311.

Taxes, i. 126, 301; ii. 421.

annual amount of, i. 321. Temporal peers, i. 142. Temporalities of bishops, i. 277. restitution of, i. 382.

Tenant, to the præcipe, ii. 359. in capite, ii. 60.

paravail, ii, 59.

in common, ii. 186.

Threats, remedy for, iii. 126.

Threatening letter, iv. 141, 151.
Tickets of leave, iv. 473.

Timber, ii. 275.

Time, division and computation of, ii.
137.

Tithes, i. 388.

extra-parochial, i. 279.

predial, mixed, or personal, ii. 21.
great or small, ii, 21.
origin of, ii. 22.

to whom due, ii. 23.
real composition, ii. 25.
modus decimandi, ii. 26.

prescription de non decimando, ii. 28.
Commutation of, ii. 30; iii. 95.
recovered in Ecclesiastical Courts, iii.
94.

summary method of recovering, iii. 95.
rent-charge, how recoverable, iii. 96.

Title, royal, contempts against, iv. 125.
Title of Acts of Parliament, i. 172.

bound to give landlord notice of eject- Title to the Crown, i. 179.
ment, iii. 211.

not answerable for accidental fire, iii. 239.

when bound to rebuild, iii. 239.

Tenant-right, ii. 97, 98.

Tender, when a defence, iii. 16.

plea of, iii. 328.

Tender of an issue in pleading, iii. 342.

Tenement, ii. 16.

Tenendum, ii. 295.

Tenths, ecclesiastical, i. 279.

temporal, i. 302.

Tenures, ancient English, ii. 59.
lay tenure, ii. 60.

corruption of military tenures, ii. 74.
hardships of military tenures, ii. 75.
their final abolition, ii. 76.
modern English tenures, ii. 77.
disturbance of, iii. 252.

Terms of years, ii. 138.

Terms, origin of the, iii. 281.

when adopted into English jurisprudence, iii. 281.

when they begin and end, iii. 284. Test and Corporation Acts, iv. 54. Testament, ii. 520.

etymology of word, ii. 529. Testamentary causes, iii. 101.

Testamentary guardian, i. 489.
Teste of writs, i. 166.

Testimony, bill to perpetuate, iii. 510.

Thanet, Isle of, i. 88.

Things, real and personal, ii. 14.
Theft-bote, iv. 138.

Title to things real, ii. 190.

to things personal, ii. 408. Tithing, i. 101.

Tolls, ii. 37.

Tollbars, destroying, iv. 289.
Tonnage, i. 309.

Tools for coining, making, iv. 101.

Tort, action of, ii. 404.

Torture, i. 120.

illegal, iv. 386.

Town, i. 101.

Trade, offences against, iv. 130.

Trader, ii. 486.

Trades, restrictions on exercise of, i. 437.
Tradesmen, i. 413.

Trading Corporations, i. 526, et seq.
Trading in slaves, iv. 68.

Transfer of property, ii. 9.

Transportation, i. 124; iv. 471.

returning from, iv. 135.
Treason, ii. 114, 261; iv. 71.
punishment of, iv. 88.
Treasure-trove, i. 290.

offence of concealing, iv. 122.
Treaties, leagues, and alliances, i. 250.
Trees, &c. destroying, iv. 288.
Trespass, legal signification of, iii. 217.
property and possession necessary to
maintain, iii. 218.

when justifiable, iii. 220.

costs in action of, iii. 222.

remedy by injunction, iii. 223.

Trespasser ab initio, how a man becomes,

iii. 221.

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Trial at law, several species of, in civil

actions, iii. 354.

by the record, iii. 369.

by inspection, iii. 369.

by certificate, iii. 371.

by witnesses, iii. 374.

by jury, iii. 375.

by the court, iii. 415.

notice of, iii. 383.

Trial, new, in civil actions, iii. 421.
Trial by proviso, iii. 382.

Trial in criminal cases, by ordeal, iv. 403. by corsned or morsel of execration, iv. 405.

by battel, iv. 406.

by High Court of Parliament, iv. 408. by jury, iv. 409.

Trial in equity, iii. 473.
Triennial elections, i. 178.
parliaments, i. 138.
Trinoda necessitas, i. 257.
Trina admonitio, iv. 385.
Trover, action of, iii. 160.
Trusts, ii. 334.

jurisdiction of Court of Chancery over,

iii. 485.

Trustee Acts, ii. 287.

Trustees, appointment of, iii. 487. Tumultuous petitioning, i. 129; iv. 155. Turbary, ii. 34.

Turnpike-gates, offence of destroying, iv.

152.

Tutor, i. 300, 478.

Uses, deeds to lead, ii. 363.
Usura maritima, ii. 469.
Usury, ii. 466; iv. 168.

repeal of usury laws, ii. 475. Uttering base coin, iv. 100.

VACANCY of throne. i. 198.

Vacant possession, mode of proceeding in case of, iii. 211.

Vacantia bona, i. 290, 294.
Vacation, sittings in, iii. 284.
Vaccination compulsory, iv. 173.
Vagabonds, rogues and, iv. 186.
Vagrancy, iv. 183.

Valor beneficiorum, i. 280.
Valor maritagii, ii. 86.

Variances, amendment of, at trial, iii. 404.

in indictments, iv. 367. Vassal, ii. 53.

Venire de novo, when awarded, iii. 425.
Venire facias, iii. 377.

on an indictment, iv. 378.

Ventre sa mere, children in, i. 117.

Ventre inspiciendo, writ de, 482.

Venue, in civil cases, how to be laid, iii. 314.

changing, iii. 315.

in indictments, iv. 358, 364.

Verdict, in civil cases, must be unani

mous, iii. 408.

plaintiff must be present, iii. 409. special, iii. 410.

Verdict, in criminal cases, iv. 425.

UMPIRE, how appointed in arbitra- Vesting orders, ii. 369.

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Wages, of Members of Parliament, i. 159. Will, estate at, ii. 142.

of servants, i. 439.

Waifs, i. 292; ii. 423.

Wales, i. 76, 77.

part of England, i. 82.

courts of Principality of, abolished, iii.

90.

Want, no excuse for crimes, iv. 29.

Wapentakes, i. 102.

War, articles of, i. 420, 424.

levying, against the king, iv. 78.

War and peace, right of making, i. 251.

Ward, by constables, i. 351.

Wards, Court of, ii. 68.

marriage of, ii. 69.

Wards in Chancery, i. 490.
Wardship, ii. 66, 85, 95.
Warehousing system, i. 312.
Warrant, i. 123.

of attorney, iii. 427.
by insolvent, ii. 515.

of justices, iv. 331, 340, 377. Warranty, ii. 296.

express and implied, ii. 296. lineal and collateral, ii. 297. of goods, ii. 462; iii. 174. Warren, ii. 429. Waste, what it is, iii. 234.

by tenant in tail, ii. 112. voluntary or permissive, ii. 274. who may sue for, iii. 234. injunction to stay, iii. 236. action of damages for, iii. 236. Waste lands, ii. 88.

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Wills, probate of, iii. 104.

Wills, ii. 11, 379, 520.

Statute of, ii. 381.
New Act, ii. 382.

execution and attestation of, ii, 531.
forgery of, iv. 291.

Winchester measure, i. 270.

Winding-up Acts, as to joint-stock com

panies, i. 532, 535; ii. 507; iii. 498. Wine-licences, i. 284.

Witchcraft, iv. 56.

Witenagemote, i. 133; iii. 44.

Withdrawal of a juror, iii. 404. Witness, to deed, ii. 303.

to wills, ii. 383.

Witnesses, dissuading from giving evidence, offence of, iv. 128.

who admissible as, iii. 399.

attendance of, compelled, iii. 398, 521. two required by the civil law, iii. 401. examination of, when abroad, or unable to attend, iii. 399,

examination of, in chancery, iii. 520. trial by, iii. 374

list of, in criminal cases, iv. 411. number required, in certain criminal cases, iv. 417.

Women, married, protection afforded to, by Court of Chancery, iii. 481. Woodmote, Court of, iii. 79.

Words, how far treasonable, iv. 76.
Workmen, combinations of, iv. 166.

Works of art, destroying, iv. 153, 289.
Wounding, remedy for, iii. 128.

offence of, iv. 232.

Wreck, i. 46, 287, 289; ii. 423.
Writ, close or patent, ii. 349.

ancient, de hæretico comburendo, iv. 42. Writ of assistance, iii. 525.

of attaint, iii. 418.

of ejectment, iii. 210.

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of the guard, i. 414.

Writs, original, issue out of the Chan- York, Archbishop of, i. 101, 411.

cery, iii. 54.

customs of, ii. 554.

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