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Concealing the Birth of Children: s. 60. Sodomy and Bestiality: ss. 61, 62.——Brothels: 25 Geo. II. c. 36, s. 8; 58 Geo. III. c. 70.

3. The Reputation.

Defamation, Libel: 9 & 10 Will. III. c. 32; 32 Geo. III. c. 60; 60 Geo. III. & 1 Geo. IV. cc. 8, 9; 11 Geo. IV. & 1 Will. IV. c. 73; 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 76, ss. 6-13, 19; 6 & 7 Vic. c. 96, ss. 3-10.

4. Profligacy.

Debarring of Unlawful Games: 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.pressing Lotteries: 10 & 11 Will. III. c. 17.Excessive and Deceitful Gaming: 9 Anne, c. 19.

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of Unlawful Games: 2 Geo. II. c. 28.—Preventing of Excessive and Deceitful Gaming: 12 Geo. II. c. 28, s. 9. Restraining

the Increase of Horse Races: 13 Geo. II. c. 19. Gaming and Horse Racing: 18 Geo. II. c. 34.- -Regulating Places of Public Entertainment-Disorderly Houses: 25 Geo. II. c. 36. Games and Lotteries: 42 Geo. III. c. 119. Gaming, Usurious &c. Securities: 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 41. -Games and Wagers: 8 & 9 Vic. c. 109.- - Betting Houses: 16 & 17 Vic. c. 119.- Gaming Houses, Suppression of: 17 & 18 Vic. c. 38.

5. Indolence.

Vagrancy: 5 Geo. IV. c. 83; 1 & 2 Vic. c. 38; 20 & 21 Vic.

c. 83.

6. Obscenity and Lewdness.

Selling Obscene Prints, &c.: 14 & 15 Vic. c. 100, s. 29.Indecent Exposure: s. 25.-Obscene publication: 20 & 21 Vic. c. 83.

7. Intimidation.

24 & 25 Vic. c. 96 makes Felony-s. 44, the sending of Letters demanding Money, &c. with Menaces; s. 45, the Demanding of Money with Menaces or by Force; s. 46, the sending of Letters Threatening to Accuse of Crime, with Intent to Extort; s. 47, Inducing a person, by Violence or by Threats, to Execute Deeds, &c. with Intent to Defraud.

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(a) 14 & 15 Vic. c. 19, s. 5. (b) 16 & 17 Vic. c. 107, ss. 249, 251. (c) 17 & 18 Vic. c. 104, ss. 206—208, 518, 520. 25 Vic. c. 100. (e) 9 Geo. IV. c. 69, s. 2.

(d) 24 &

Attempt

Assault,

Murder: (d) s. 1. Conspiracy to Murder: (d) s. 4. to Murder: (d) s. 11 et seq. Manslaughter: (d) s. 5. Battery, Wounding, &c.: (d) s. 47. Shooting, Wounding, &c., with Intent to Maim, &c.: (d) s. 18. Attempts to Choke, Suffocate, or Strangle, &c.: (d) s. 21. Administering, &c., Chloroform, &c., to commit Indictable Offences: (d) s. 22. Administering Poison: (d) s. 23. Endangering the safety of Railway Passengers: (d) ss. 32-34. Injuries from Furious Driving: (d) s. 35. Assaulting Game-keepers: (e). Not providing Apprentices and Servants with Food, &c.: (d) s. 26. Exposing Children, whereby to endanger life: (d) s. 27. Forcing Seamen on Shore, or Leaving behind: (c) ss. 206–208. False Imprisonment, Sheriffs, &c. when liable to Action for: 13 Edw. I. c. 13 (Stat. West. 2). Stealing Children under Ten Years of age: (d) s. 56.

VI. OFFENCES RELATING TO PROPERTY.

Arson and Malicious Injuries to Property: 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97. Forcible Entry and Detainer: 5 Ric. II. st. 1, c. 7; 8 Hen. VI. c. 9; 31 Eliz. c. 11; 21 Jac. I. c. 15. Larceny and other similar Offences: 7 Will. IV., & 1 Vic. cc. 36, 88; 6 & 7 Vic. c. 40; 10 & 11 Vic. c. 82; 13 & 14 Vic. c. 37; 14 & 15 Vic. c. 19, ss. 11-16; 14 & 15 Vic. c. 100, ss. 5, 7, 18; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96. Forgery and False Personation : 7 Geo. IV. c. 16, s. 38; 11 Geo. IV. & 1 Will. IV. c. 20, ss. 84, 86-89; 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 53, ss. 49, 50; 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 106, s. 3; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 98. Embezzlement by Clerks or Servants: 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, ss. 67-73;-By Bankers, Merchants, Brokers, Attorneys, Agents, or Factors: s. 75 et seq. ;-By Trustees : ss. 80-87;-By Bankrupts: 24 & 25 Vic. c. 134, s. 221 et seq.;— By Directors and Officers of Public Companies: 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 81. Cheating: ss. 88, 89.- ·Burglary: 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 1 et seq.- -Offences relating to Game: 9 Geo. IV c. 69; 7 & 8 Vic. c. 29; 25 & 26 Vic. c. 114.

INDEX.

Absolute, meaning of the term when
applied to property, p. 80.
Accessories, criminal, 359.
Action, human, motive principles
of, 9; philosophy of, 1-12.
Actions, measure of, 16.
Acton Burnel, stat. of, 125.
Adjective law, 91.

Administrative law, 92 note.
Agreement, 84.
Aids, 103 note.

Alienation, fines for, 103 note.

Allegiance, 411; oath of, 412 note.

America discovered, 136.

Ancient demesne, 100.

Bills substituted for petitions, 138.
Blockade, 333.

Bribery at elections of Members of
Parliament, 368.
British Empire, 262.
Burglary, 380.
Cabinet, 186.
Canon Law, 426.
Capital, 83 note, 393.

Capitis deminutio maxima, media,
minima, 77.
Capitulation, 337.

Capture, 325.

Caput, 76; Austin on, 78 note.
Carlisle, stat. of, 123.

Appendix, Indictable offences, 445. Chattels, 383 note.

Arbitration, 297.

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Chaucer, 136.
Cheating, 385.

Church, property of the, 105; its
arrogance checked, 106; ecclesi-
astical and civil jurisdiction sepa-
rated, 105; bishops concede hom-
age, 106; constitutions of Claren-
don, 106; persecution by, 136;
Henry VIII., his treatment of,
144; the Reformation, 144; the
clergy permitted to marry, 146;
Toleration Act, 184; religious
freedom, 197; benefit of clergy,
363 note; the clergy, classifica-
tion of, 423; Ecclesiastical Law,
422; Canon Law, 426.
Circuits, 108.

Circumspecte agatis, stat. of, 123.
Civil liberty, 54.

Clarendon, constitutions of, 106.
Clergy, the, 423. See Church.
Coast, 254.

Coin, 372 note.
Colonies, &c., British, 262.

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Commons, the House of, 205.

See

Parliament.

Commonwealth, the, 176; a, 48.
Commune concilium regni, 104

note.

Composite States, 47.
Confederated States, 47.
Confirmatio chartarum, 121.
Conqueror, this title never assumed
by Will. I., 100 note.
Conquest, the, effects of, 100.
Consideration, in contract, 87.
Considerations, Blackstone's classi-
fication of, 88.
Conspiracy, 360.
Constituencies, 211.

Constitution, summary of,

212.

Constitutional Law, 49.

Constitutional principles
lished by A.D. 1485, 142.

De mercatoribus, 125.
Democracies, 48 note.
Denationalization, 228.
Deontology. See Ethics, 41.
Desire, diversity of, 2.

Disfranchisement, the first act of,138.
Divine positive law. See Law.
Divine will, unwritten, the index
to the, 19.

Dolum malum, 88 note.
Dolus, 88.

Domain, eminent, 260.
Domiciled inhabitants, 241.
Dominium, 71 note, 80, 264.
Doomsday Book, 100.

Duties absolute, breaches of, 64.
202-Duties must be defined, 90.
Duty, a, 58.

estab-

Consulates, 277.
Contraband of war, 327.
Contract, 83, 85.
Contracts, expectation of parties to,
86; essence, nature and accidents
of, 86; implied, 62; nuptial, 287;
validity of, 288; private, with
foreign enemy, 326; quasi, 89.
Convention, 84, 221.

Copyright, 399.

Dwelling-house, a, 380 note.

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Council, the great, 104.

Elegit, 125.

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Embargo, 298 note.

416;

Embezzlement, 384.

Norman, 104.

Creditors, composition with, 406.
Crime, 353.

Crime, a, 63.

Crimes, 290; against public pro-
perty, 368; against property, 379;
persons capable of committing,356.
Criminals, extradition of, 290.
Cromwell, Oliver, 176.
Crown. See Prerogative.

Eminent domain, 260.

Enemy, private contracts with, 326.
Enlistment, foreign, 310.
Equality, legal, 129.
Equity, 94.
Escheat, 103 note.
Estates tail, 125.
Ethics defined, 41.

Evidence, rules of, why necessary,
90.

Evil, 15.

Exchequer, Court of, 108.

Ideas, how acquired, 2; diversity

of, 2.

Ignorance, causes of, 1.

Experience, the effect of, 2; what, 2. Illegal training and drilling, 364.

Executory devise, 396 note.

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Guttenberg (printing), 136 note.

Habeas Corpus Act, 180, 181 note.
Hæretico comburendo, De, 137.
Hale, Sir Matthew, 126 note.
Half sovereign states, 46.
Hampden's case, 165.

Hanover, the accession of the House
of, 196.

Happiness, the aim of man, 4; what
constitutes, 4; subordinate ends
of, 5; defined, 6.

Impeachment, 133; revived, 153.
Implied contracts, 62.

Impressing, 175.

Impressions, different, from same

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Infants, 356.

Injustice, 43.

Instruction, 432; defined, 433.
Internal sovereignty, 49.
International law, 213-342; defi-
nition, 216; basis of the science
of, 214; the matter of, 215; Aus-
tin and Lord Mackenzie on, 214
note; administration of, 215; an-
tiquity of, 216 note; sources of,
218; repositories, 222; branches,
223; public international law,
223; postulates of, 223; private
international law, 223; maxims
of, 224; subjects of, 226, 234;
sovereigns, 226; nationalization,
227; denationalization, 228; na-
turalization, 234; domiciled in-
habitants, 241; the objects of,
245; division of international
rights, 247; original sovereign
rights, 249; independence, 249;
jurisdiction, 253. See Property.
Intervention, international, 270.
Intimidation, 379.
Investiture, 102 note.

James I., 147.

Judges hold office quamdiu se bene
gesserint, 192 and note.
Jurisdiction, sovereign, 253, 264.

Harold, his death, the laws of his Jurisprudence defined, 38.

period, 100.

Henry VIII., 144.

Jury, trial by, 141; immunity of, 179.
&c.

High Commission Court, 145 and Jus, 71 note; ad rem, 70; in per-

note; abolished, 174.

Holy Scripture, 13.

Homage, 102 note.

Homicide, 376.

Hostile relations, international, 298. |

sonam, 70; in re, 69; in rem, 68,
81, 82; the term, whence derived,
68 note; in rem, persons the sub-
jects of, 69; personale, 70; per-
sonarum, 75; postliminium, 315

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