INDEX, The small numerals denote the Books; the ciphers the Pages of the Commentaries. Abatement of freehold, iii 168 writ, count, or suit, iii 302 molesting their possessors, iv 116 Abbots, i 155 Abbreviations, iii 323 Abduction of child, iii 140 and n ward, iii 141 wife, iii 139 and n women, i 443 and n or kidnapping, iv 219 and n Ab earance, good, security for, iv 251 256 when freehold cannot be put in, ii 107 n Abjuration, oath of, i 368 of the realm, iv 56 124 332 377 Absolute power of the crown i 250 rights and duties, i 123 after the fact, iv 37 and n Account books, when evidence, iii 368 Accroaching royal power, iv 76 Act of bankruptcy, ii 477 and n grace, how passed, i 184 when pleaded, iv 396 parliament, i 85 disobedience to, iv 12 endeavouring to repeal, is treason, iv 82 n its ancient form, i 182 power, i 185 private, i 86 ii 344 and n 345 n public, i 85 when binding on the crown, i 261 Action at law, iii 116 chose in, ii 397 ex contractu, iii 117 delicto, iii 117 VOL. II. 93 Actual right of possession, ii 196 cum testamento annexo, ii 504 durante absentia, ii 503 durante minore aetate, ii 503 n limited or special, ii 506 granted to creditor when executor out of Administrator, ii 496 iv 428 when privileged from arrest, iii 289 n court of, iii 69 iv 268 no appeal from, to privy council, i 230 n letters of marque granted by, ib to copyholds, ii 370 Admittendum clericum, writ ad, iii 250 rights, &c. of wife guilty of, i 441 Advocate, iii 26, see Counsel canon law forbids clerks becoming, i 20 n Advocatus fisci, iii 27 Advowson, iv 426 in general, ii 21 cannot pass without deed, ii 22n is saleable, ii 22 n tenant by curtesy of, ii 127 n purchase of, not simoniacal, ii 279 n Equitas sequitur legem, ii 330 Affectum, challenge propter, iii 363 iv 352 Affeerors of amercements, iv 380 Affidavit, in general, iii 304 to hold to bail in action, iii 287 Affirmance of judgments, iii 411 Arbitrary consecrations of tithes, i 113 ii 26 Assault, in courts, iv 123 Arbitration in general, iii 16 choosing umpire, ib title to land referred, ib n terms of reference to, ib n Archbishop, i 155 377 and n his court, iii 64 Archdeaconry, i 111 Arches court, iii 64 Areopagus, court of, iii 365 iv 169 348 Aristocracy, i 49 Armed, being unusually, iv 149 standing, i 414 iv 419 441 Armorial ensigns, iì 429 iii 105 Armour, &c. embezzling the king's, iv 101 Arms and ammunition, exporting them, i 265 incidents to, iv 324 and n Array, challenge to, iii 359 iv 352 Arrest of judgment, iii 393 app 11 iv 375 of persons in civil cases, iii 288 persons privileged from, iii 289 n remedy for malicious, iii 126 of persons in criminal cases, iv 289 by warrant, and who may grant it, and for what, iv 290 and n form of warrant, ib and n backing warrant, ib 291 and n place of, ib by officers without warrant, ib 292 and n by private persons without warrant, ib 293 by hue and cry, iv 293 Arson, see Fire in general, iv 220 373 what a house to constitute offence, iv 221 where house must be burnt, iv 221 what a burning, ib 222 malice, ib punishment, ib appeal of, iv 314 Articles of the navy, 420, 421 war, i 415 Artificers, their station in the state, i 407 combination laws, iv 136 n leaving kingdom, i 269 n iv 160 seducing, iv 160 embezzlements by, iv 230 n As, Roman divisions of, ii 462 Ascendants excluded from inheriting, ii 210 Asportation, iv 231 Assault, what constitutes, iii 120 and n when justifiable, ib 3-5 and n if death ensue, no civil remedy, iii 119 n civil action after acquittal of, ib offence in general, iv 216 217 and n to raise price of wages, iv 136 n in churchyard, iv 145 on king's chancellor, &c. iv 84 on constables, iv 129 in rescues, iv 131 on revenue officers, iv 155 to stop progress of grain, &c. iv 246 unnatural crime, ib costs in action for, iii 400 Assembly of estates, i 147 riotous or unlawful, iv 146 and n Assets, ii 510 Atheling, i 198 Attachment against witnesses, iii 369 with proclamations, iii 444 forfeiture of real property in treason, iv 381 in petit treason and felony, iv 385 forfeiture of personal property, ib 387 and n Attaint, grand jury in, iii 351 writ of, iii 402 Attainted persons, ii 290 iv 380 Attempt to rob, iv 242 and n to steal fish, iv 235 and n to commit crime, iv 100 n 131 n 140 n devises, îi 376 Attorney at law, iii 25 and n action against, iii 166 and a Benefices, iv 107 Benefit of clergy, iv 333 365 413 429 441 part of England, i 99 parliament, i 181 or note, forging, iv 248, 249 Billa vera, iv 306 Bishop, i 155 377 401 not electing or consecrating, iv 115 not one of the three estates of realm, i 153 n Scotch presbytery established, ib of St. David's deprived for simony, i 380 n commendams granted to, i 393 n when may refuse to accept resignation, i 393 require incumbent to employ curate, i 394 n Bishoprics, nomination to, i 378 iv 108 115 430 Black Act, remedies against hundred, iii 160 shooting at another, iv 208 and n |