returned, &c. in like manner by coroners, &c. II. 248
ancient law as to associating witnesses to deeds with jury,
II. 248
how summoned and sworn when viewers appointed, II. 249
tales how awarded and returned, &c. II. 249. 250-1
special juries how struck in what causes: how in cities:
expenses attending them how paid: how summoned ;
fined for non-attendance, &c. II. 252, 3, 4
tales and ballot ordered in default of special jurors, II. 253
issues when and how tried by nisi prius in Middlesex and
Dublin, II. 254
writ of nisi prius when grantable at the instance of jurors,
venire de novo where plaintiff does not proceed to trial at
first assizes: form of such writ, II. 255
venire by proviso sued out by defendant or tenant, II. 256
what notice of trial required, II. 257
no challenge to array for want of a knight being returned,
II. 257
inquest de medietate linguæ where alien a party, II. 257
consanguinity or affinity not within the 5th degree no
principal challenge, Qu? 11. 258
challenges on the part of the crown to be for cause, II.
1204
justices of gaol delivery, &c. may require sheriffs, &c.
to amend panels, II. 1205
none to be returned in criminal cases who are not quali-
fied to serve as jurors in civil cases, Ad. I. 145
See ARRAIGNMENT, CATHOLICS, COURTS Inferior,
MARKET JURIES, &c.
JUSTICES OF ASSIZE. See ASSIZE.
JUSTICES OF GAOL DELIVERY. See COMMISSIONERS
OF OYER AND TERMINER.
to be of the best reputation in the several counties: their
ancient jurisdiction, and qualification, &c. L. 240, 1
discretion of chancellor as to appointing them, I. 241, 2
qualification required by modern statutes, and oath in
respect thereto: penalty for acting without such qua-
lification, I. 242, 3, 4
exception as to cities, &c. and peers, judges, great offi-
cers, &c. I. 245
oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration, to be taken
by, I. 245, 6
oath of office administered to them, I. 246, 7
their orders not impeached for not being expressed to be
made by justices of the quorum: and valid in cities
though not by justices of quorum, I. 247
attornies, solicitors and proctors, incapacitated to be, I.
247, 8
sheriffs shall not act as justices, I. 216
JUSTICES OF PEACE continued
commissions not determined by death of king, I. 248
oaths not required to be taken a second time during
the reign of the same king; and not necessary for any
justice to sue out a second dedimus potestatem, 1. 248, 9
if left out of renewed commission, then necessary to qua-
lify again, I. 248, 9
commission not superseded by being made a peer, &c.
I. 24.9
proceedings before them not discontinued by new com-
mission, IL. 1113
commission for town corporate not superseded by one for
County, I. 250
fees of them and their clerks, I. 250, 1
empowered to administer oaths for levying penalties, I.
empowered to receive fines imposed out of sessions; but
to keep accounts of the same, and transmit copies to
clerks of the peace, &c. and notice to be given to par-
ties entitled to any proportion thereof, I. 591, 2
they shall hold their sessions four times in the year by 3
days, and oftener if need be, II. 1112
the Michaelmas quarter sessions when holden, Ad. II.467
their sessions held 8 times in the year in Ireland, II. 64
recorders of cities may in case of sickness, &c. appoint de-
puties; but no trial shall be proceeded on at sessions in
the absence of recorder or his deputy, II. 1118, 9
upon appeals to sessions mere defects in form amended,
II. 1117
they shall be resident in their proper shires, except peers,
judges, &c. II. 1112
of counties residing in cities situate within or adjoining
&c. thereto, may act for such their counties, II. 1129.
1130
a justice for 2 adjoining counties may act for either, if re-
sident in one, and sheriff, &c. may convey offenders in-
to adjoining county before him, &c. or through adjoin-
ing county to gaol of proper county, II. 1131
may act in execution of laws concerning parochial taxes,
&c. though interested as inhabitants, II. 1133
pleading and costs in actions against them for any thing
done by virtue of their offices, II. 14 to 148
notice specifying cause of action, &c. to be served a month
before action and amends may be tendered, &c. II.
146, 7
in actions against them for levying any penalty, &c. 2d.
damages only recovered unless malicious, &c. II, 145
actions not to be brought against constables, &c. acting
by their orders, without joining them, unless copy of
warrant refused; what costs in such cases if verdict for
plaintiff, 11. 147
if no sufficient distress in the county where warrant grant-
ed for levying penalty, such warrant how indorsed,
and executed in another county, II. 1132
JUSTICES OF PEACE, continued
empowered to sell distress made for penalties, II. 1134
where term of imprisonment by justice is undefined in
statute, how the committal shall be, II. 1133
offenders apprehended in cities may be sent to house of
correction of county, if city contributory, II. 1132
may commit vagrants, &c. to common gaol or house of
correction, 11. 1134. Ad. I. 136
in Ireland may commit to bridewell for any crime, Ad. I.
136
empowered to award costs, and enforce payment, II.
though directed by statute to commit to gaol, may com-
mit to house of correction, II. 1134
at sessions may make and alter rules as to costs, II
1136
of cities, &c. removable if convicted of breach of duty,
&c. upon information filed in king's bench, II. 1136
See ASSISTANT BARRISTER, CERTIORARI, CLERKS
OF THE PEACE, ESCAPE, EXAMINATIONS,
Officers, RENTS, TITHES, &c.
JUSTIFYING BAIL. See Bail.
KEEPER. See CHANCEllor.
KIDNAPPING. See CHILDREN, IMPRISONMENT.
KILLING. See HOMICIDE, MISCHIEF, Murder.
KILMAINHAM. See CHAIRMAN.
historical deduction of his title, I. 148 to 150
succession to crown limited
right of royal family to inherit though born out of the
kingdom, I. 151
right of females to succeed to the crown declared, I.
not subject to coercive power of lords, commons, or
people, I. 13
asserting legislative authority of both or either house
of parliament without the king, a præmunire, II.547
denying the right to succession as limited, or the right of
the king and parliament to limit the crown, a prœmu-
nire, II. 548
marriages of royal family without consent of king and
council restrained: penalty for solemnizing them, &c.
I. 152, 3
his duties expressed in coronation oath, I. 154
to be neither papist nor married to a papist, I. 151, 3
to make the declaration against popery, I. 155
to be sworn to maintain church of England, &c. I. 155, 6
declared head of the church, I. 164, 5. II. 535. Ad.
I. 11
other branches of his prerogative, I. 157 to 164
sketch of various sources of his revenue, I. 165 to 209
demise of, how it affects parliament; privy council; of-
ficers civil and military; judges; justices of peace;
proceedings in courts of law, equity, ecclesiastical, &c.
I. 146, 7. 153. 359. II. 216. 1110
leases of crown lands for what rent, at what term, &c.
sale of unimproveable rents, &c. allowed waste lands,
and small parcels intermixed, &c. with lands of indivi
duals exchanged and sold: commissioners of king's
woods, &c. authorized to purchase lands adjacent to
forests, &c. and sell others; alienation of allowed for
churches, glebes, &c. and for improvement of West-
minster, I. 174, 5. Ad. I. 22. Ad. II. 33, 4
king may alienate his private estate, Ad. I. 11
non-payment of his rents, &c. no forfeiture, if rents, &c.
paid before process issued touching forfeiture, II. 170
disabled to sue for lands, &c. where the right thereto
hath not accrued, nor the rents been duly in charge,
within 60 years; except reversions, &c. II. 170, &c.
ecclesiastical persons not liable to arrears of rent due to
the king, before their titles accrued, II. 173
See TREASON and other heads of offences injurious to the
king's prerogative, or to the king and government, &c.
KING'S DEBTS,
his debts by specialty in what form acknowledged; shall
have the force of a statute staple, &c.: debts, costs, and
damages recovered thereon; suits for, in what court,
and by what process and execution recovered: plead-
ing in such suits general; king's suits preferred; heir
how far chargeable; lands in the hands of several te.
nants how charged; estate of debtors sold, II. 320 to
330
proceeding by scire facias against heir of king's debtor
II. 325, 6
his debtor chargeable with 12 per cent. per ann. for over-
holding money, II. 327
commission out of exchequer to ascertain debt: informa-
tion by attorney-general for sale of land, &c. thereup-
on, If. 329
assignment of debts to king by king's accountant re-
strained, II. 330
statutes of jeofails extended to suits for king's debts, II.
record of king's debt in England transmitted to Ireland,
and vice versa, II. 330, 1
bail bonds taken in king's suits assignable, II. 331
all fiats for issuing extents in aid shall specify the debt
due to the king, and the debt found due to the king's
debtor shall be indorsed on said writ; and money le
vied paid to the king, Ad. II. 305
certain debtors of the king excluded from suing out ex-
tents in aid, Ad. II. 306, 7
KING'S DEBTS, continued.
court of exchequer, &c. may discharge any person taken
upon a capias in any extent in aid, Ad. ÎI. 307, 8
public accountants how acquitted for money issued from
treasury in Ireland, Ad. II. 308
the justices of this court shall follow the king, II. 37
matters touching treason, felony, or trespass, remitted to,
II. 1166
See EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, INDICTMENT, &c.
may be justices of assize and commissioners of oyer and
terminer, II. 47
papists, &c. excluded from, upon relaxation, of popery
laws, I. 303
KING'S INNS. See BARRISTER.
KING'S PALACES,
treasons, &c. and malicious strikings within the king's pa-
laces, &c. how tried and punished, II. 577, &c.
KING'S STORES, SHIPS, &c.
embezzling king's naval, ordnance, or victualling stores, a
capital felony, persons selling, receiving, or conceal-
ing them, transported: but how punished if under 20s.
value, II.514, 6, 9
penalty for making naval, ordnance, or victualling stores,
with the marks used upon the king's stores; and on
persons in whose custody stores so marked are found,
II. 514, 5, 6, 7. Ad. H. 362, 3
persons defacing the marks of the king's stores, how
nished, II. 517, 8
English statutes respecting the embezzlement, &c. of the
king's naval, ordnance, or victualling stores, extended
to Ireland, Ad. II. 361
the provisions of the statutes respecting the using the
mark to denote the king's property in his naval, ord-
nance, or victualling stores, or having, &c. stores so
marked, or defacing the king's marks, extended to all
public stores, Al. II. 362
burning or destroying the king's ships of war, or mate-
rials for building them, or his majesty's military, naval,
or victualling stores, or any place where they are
stored, a capital felony, II. 519
KING'S GAP OR SHARE. See Fish.
no person to be compelled to take upon him the order,
Ad. I. 2
KNIGHTS. See ABATEMENT, JURY.
KNIGHT SERVICE. See FEODAL TENURES.
KNOCKERS. See LARCENY.
LABOURERS. See ARTIFICERS, COMBINATION, HOLI
DAYS, VAGRANTS, WAGES, &c.
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