Conquest, Norman, i 199 iv 413 414 Conscience, courts of, iii 81 iv 441 Consecration of bishops, i 380 iv 115 Consequential damages, action for, iii 153 and n Conservators of the peace, i 350 iv 413 Conservatory, robbery of, iv 233 n Contract, express, iii 154 implied, ib 158 consideration of, ii 445 and n must be legal, ib fraud in, ii 444 n of marriage, i 439 iii 92 original, between king and people i 233 Convention of estates, i 151 152 Conventional estates for life, ii 120 Consideration of contracts, when essential, ii Conversion, iii 152 high, i 115 lord high, i 355 iii 37 iv 268 his court, iii 68 iv 267 his duties, i 354 n special constables, ii 355 when may arrest without warrant, i 356 n should know the limits of their power, i 356 n Constitution, English, 1 50 127 144 154 160 how far parliament may alter, i 163 n 211 n corrupt borough disfranchised, i 174 n Salic law denied, i 219 n theory of, stated on Hardy's trial, i 237 n Constructive treason, iv 75 85 Consuetudinibus et servitiis, writ de, iii 232 Consul, offences to his person, iv 71 n in courts of equity, iii 443 law, iv 283 Contenement, iv 379 Contentious jurisdiction, iii 66 Contestatio litis, iii 297 Contingent legacy, ii 513 remainder, ii 169 and n trustees to support, ii 171 app 2 uses, ii 334 Conveyances, ii 9 293 309 iv 430 by bargain and sale, ii 338 n trustees to preserve contingent remainders, coparceners admitted as one heir to, ii 188 n when liable to testators' debts, ii 244 n fine of, no bar, ii 356 n see further title, "Fines." surrender of, by attorney, ii 365 n surrender, by whom and where taken, ii 365 admittance of femes-covert and infants, ii 366 n neglect to surrender to, uses of will aided,» 368 n effect of admittance 369 » as to necessity for a name, i 475 n law respecting election of members, &c. see cannot hold lands without licence, 1 475 n making bye laws, i 476 n when should act by attorney, b n resignation and removal of officers, 1 484 n effects of, as to lands, i 484 ii 256 grounds of forfeiture of charter, i 485 n effect of "heir" in grant to, in 109 n prescribing under a, ii 265 n Corporeal hereditaments, ii 17 Corpse, see Dead Bodies Corpus juris canonici, i 82 civilis, i 81 Costs, when king receives, iii 400 n when executors and administrators pay, fi what pauper may recover as, ib n the word not necessary to validity of, ii 304 n covenants running with the land, ii 304 a executors and administrators bound without in lease, when binding an assignee, ii 327 a to use straw, &c. on land, binding against writ of, ii 350 app 4 in 157 Covert baron, i 442 Coverture, i 442. See husband and wife privy, disclaim jurisdiction in admiralty court of, its jurisdiction, 1 232 n in declaration, iii 293 295 Counterfeiting the king's coin, iv 84 88 County, trial by the, iii 349 iv 349 division into, 1 113 n court, i 178 iii 35 iv 411 414 416 420 422 42 of Middlesex, iii 82 palatine, i 116 iv 431 cities and towns, which are, 1 114 n meetings near Westminster, iv 148 n IN GENERAL, i 267 iii 23 iv 258 414 baron, iii 33 34 90 common pleas, iii 37 40 1 22 23 ecclesiastical, iii 67 88 and n; 94 a king's bench, iii 40 and n leet, iv 273 411 424 martial, i 415 nisi prius, iii 57 n requests, iii 81 and n Courts, criminal, commission of oyer and ter of general gaol delivery, ib of general quarter sessions, ib 271 and court-leet, or view of frank-pledge, ib of coroner, ib 274 of clerk of market, ib 275 of special and private jurisdiction court, iii 316 of lord steward, treasurer, or comptroller of De bene esse, iii 383 king's household, iv 276 of lord steward of king's household, ib of universities, ib 277 Craven, iii 340 iv 348 Credible witness, iii 370 Crimes, iv 125 De la plus belle, dower, ii 132 Dead man's part, ii 518 Deadly feud, iv 244 Deaf, dumb, and blind, 1 304 1 497 Dean and Chapter, i 382 Criminal conversation, iii 139 and n, law, iv 2 Dean, rural, i 383 office, iv 265 308 pleas of the, iv 2 lands, grants of, restrained, ii 346 takes whole where one joint tenant felo de ejectment by lessee of, iii 256 n when receives costs of suit, iii 400 n Cucking-stool, iv 169 Cui ante divortium, writ of, iii 183 in vita, writ of, ib Culprit, iv 339 Cumberland, theft in, iv 238 Curate, i 393, see Clergy Curate, his salary, iii 90 i 394 n dismissed without cause, remedy, 1 394 n when bishop may require incumbent to em:- Curator of infants, &c. i 460 Curatores viarum, i 358 Curfeu, iv 419 420 Curialitas, ii 126 Cursing, iv 60 Curtesy, tenant by, ii 126 Custody of idiots and lunatics, i 303 iii 427 what time wih make it vali i 31 n how allowed, i 78 when legal, i 75 Deanry, rural, i 111 Death, appeal of, iv 314 424 of party before entering judgment, 111 399 » stealing them, indictable offence, ii 42$ Debet et detinet, action in, in 155 Debt, its meaning, &c. iii 155 of title by, ii 464 action of, iii 154 app 13 action of, on amercement, iii 161 escape, iii 164 national, and charge thereof, 1 326 327 u p a loss of so much property, i 328 Debtee executor, iii 18 Debtor, refusing to discover effects, iv 156 Customs on merchandize, i 313 314 315 n 36 Decretum Gratiani, i 82 Custuma antiqua sive magna, i 314 315 Custos rotulorum, i 349 iv 272 Darva et nova, i 314 Lamage to things personal, iii 153 Damage-feasant, iii 6 Jamages, title acquired by, ii 438 in assize of novel disseisin iii 187 Dedimus potestatem, ii 351 iii 44′′ in general, what, ib indenture, what, ii 296 and n deed-poll, what, ii 296 voluntary, or upon consideration, ii 297■ signatures to may printed. 297 n Deed, technica ities, and manifest verbal errors Descent, of crown, i 193 iv 413 Demolishing churches, houses, &c. iv 143 and n book, iii 317 in equity, iii 446 to evidence, iii 372 Departure in pleading, in 310 in chancery, iii 449 ecclesiastical courts, iii 100 Deprivation, i 393 Derelict lands, ii 261 Descender, writ of formedon in, iii 192 of title by in general, i 201 collateral, i 194 distinction between purchase, &c. ii 201 a representative proximity preferred, ii 219 n when collateral descent takes place, ii 220 ■ what necessary to good title, ii 223 n sister of whole, preferred to brother of half exclusion of half blood, ii 233 n classes of kindred, male stocks preferred 235 n preference of cl. 11 to cl. 10 disputed: 240 rule in Shelley's case, ii 242 n papists may now inherit by, ii 257 £ limitations of estate, pur auter vie, ¡¡ 260 r Desertion, i 415 iv 102 and n Detainer, forcible, iii 179 iv 148 unlawful, iii 151 and n Determinable freehold, ii 121 Detinet, action of debt in, iii 155 Devise, iv 430 title by, in general, u 373 when a nullity, ii 242 n lands devised, subject to debts, in 378 n where lands acquired subsequent to, pass by will, ii 378 n death of devisee before testator, effect of, ü estate twice devised in same will, ii 381 n heir disinherited only by plain intention, cross remainders in, ii 381 n of chattels real and personal in remainder, u in joint tenancy, and tenancy in common, votes not to be multiplied by, i 174 n Devisee, liable to debts of devisor ii 378 Diet, excess in, iv 170 Digests, i 81 Dignity of the king, i 241 Dilatory pleas, iii 301 anos Disabilities, iv 377 Disability, plea to, iii 302 Disturbance, of common, ui 237 franchises, in 236 patronage, iii 242 religious assemblies, iv 54 tenure, iii 242 ways, iii 241 Disturber, 278 Diversity of person, plea of, iv 396 Disabling a man's limbs or members, iv 205 Dividend of bankrupt's effects, ii 487 wife's estate, iii 20 n what works a, iii 171 n Discovery by bankrupt, ii 483 of accomplices, iv 330 331 on oath, iii 382 437 Discretionary fines and imprisonment, iv 378 Disfiguring, iv 207 and n Disguise, iv 144 and n Dismembering, punishment by, iv 377 Dismission of bill in equity, iii 451 Disorderly houses, iv 168 and n persons, iv 169—See Vagrant Disparagement, ii 70 Dispensation from the pope, iv 115 Dispensing power of the king, i 142 186 342 Dispossession, iii 167 198 Dissection of murderers, iv 202 377 at the party's election, iii 170 171 Dissuading witnesses, offence of, iv 126 of goods in custody of law, iii 7 n of tools and goods, iii 8 n 9 n of cattle sent to agist, &c. liable to, iii 8 n so goods of lodgers, &c. ib of cattle levant and couchant, iii 9 n sale of corn, under, iii 10 n of trees, shrubs, &c. ib n of unripe products, ib when may be made, iii 11 n removal of goods, to avoid, ib n pursuit to distrain cattle, iii 12 n seizing part in name of all, ib n cattle dying in pound, ib sale of, in 14 distrainor cannot tie up cattle, iii 13 n Divine law, i 42 right of kings, i 191 iv 436 Dower, title by, in general, in 129 iv 424 is forfeited by adultery, ii 138 n barred by attainder of husband, ¡i 253 a assignment of, ii 135 bar of, ii 136 by common law, ii 132 de la plus belle, ib ex assensu patris, ii 135 unde nihil habet, writ of, iii 133 writ of right of, in 183 194 Draught for money, ii 467 Drawbacks, i 315 Drawing to-the gallows, iv 92 337 sale of cattle taken damage feasant, iii 14 n Driving, furious, offence of selling goods taken by, ib n llegal for crown debts, iv 423 xcessive, iii 12 Infinite, iii 231 280 iv 285 318 second, iii 12 Droit droit, ii 199 207 n Druids, their customs, i 63 iv 408 Distribution of intestate's effects, ii 515 i 408 Duchy court of Lancaster, iii 78 |