Clergy, how far protected from arrest, &c. i 377 subject to penalty for trading, i 377 n right of to tithes, ii 25 n statute of mortmain relaxed in favour of, ii 272 simony, ii 278 iv 62 bonds to resign livings, &c. illegal, ii 279 n simoniacal presentation, when not evidence, leases by, when binding on successor, ii 322 n archbishop Abbot's deer-shooting, ii 413 n benefit of, iv 333 365 413 429 441 plea of, iv 333 prayer of, iv app sec 2 Clergymen, beating them, iv 217 orders, i 388 iv 367 of the market, his court, iv 275 parish, appointment and duties, i 395 n Clipping the coin, iv 90 Cloaths, malicious destroying of, iv 245 Close, meaning and use of word, ii 17 n Collatio bonorum, ii 517 Collation to a benefice, i 391 Collative advowsons, ii 22 Collecting the goods of the deceased, ii 510 Colleges, i 471 their visitors, i 482 484 n Common, tenant in, of lands, ii 191 app 2 chattels personal, ii 399 vouchee, ii 359 app 5 utterer of false money, iv 100 ways, ii 35 part of statute of mortmain repealed in fa- Commons, members of house of, i 158 and see vour of, ii 273 n Collegia in the civil law, i 469 Collieries, destroying engines, &c. in, iv 143 n injuries to, iv 247 and n Colligendum bona defuncti, letters ad, ii 505 not affected by statute when not named, i 102 transportation to, iv 401 and n Commerce, king the arbiter of, i 273 of lunacy, i 305 the peace, i 351 iv 270 take answers in equity, iii 447 to examine witnesses, iii 383 438 449 Parliament privilege from arrest, i 165 n who may not be elected, i 175 n 176 n death of, new election thereon, i 177 n franking letters by, i 323 n Scotch and Irish lords in, lose privilege of Commonwealth, offences against, iv 127 Communion of goods, ii 3 Communem legem, writ of entry ad, iii 183 Commutation of penance, iv 106 217 276 Commissioners of paving, when not liable to Compact, i 45. See Contract-Conspiracy action, i 139 n Compassing the death of the king, &c. iv 76 Compensatio, iii 305 Competent witnesses, iii 370 Composition, real, for tithes, ii 28 with creditors, i 484 Confiscation, i 299 iv 377 Confusion, property by, ii 405 court of, fixed at Westminster, i 23 iii 38 Conge d' eslire, i 379 382 iv 421 iv 424 prayer-book, reviling of, iv 50 recovery, iii 182 193 iv 429 sans nombre, iii 239 scold, iv 169 seal, i 475 Congregations, religious disturbance of, iv 54 n Conies, taking, killing, or stealing, iv 235 239 subtraction of, ib Conjuration, iv 60 436 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 truce and safe-conducts, iv 69 Conservatory, robbery of, iv 233 n Contract, express, iii 154 implied, ib 158 consideration of, ii 445 and n 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 152 445 n must be legal, ib when moral obligation sufficient, ii 445 n of deeds, 296 app 2 Consideratum est per curiam, iii 396 Consimili casu, writ of entry in, iii 183 Consort, queen, i 218 Conspiracy, law of, in general, iv 136 and n Constable, i 355 411 iv 292 lord high, i 355 iii 37 iv 268 special constables, ii 355 when may arrest without warrant, i 356 n should know the limits of their power, i 356 n Constitution, English, i 50 127 144 154 160 how far parliament may alter, i 163 n 211 n 174 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 Contenement, iv 379 Contentious jurisdiction, iii 66 Contingent legacy, ii 513 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 n death of surrenderor before admittance of admittance of femes-covert and infants, ii Costs, when king receives, iii 400 n when executors and administrators pay, iii what pauper may recover as, ib n the word not necessary to validity of, ii 304 n covenants running with the land, ii 304 n executors and administrators bound without in lease, when binding an assignee, ii 327 n to use straw, &c. on land, binding against writ of, ii 350 app 4 iii 157 Coverture, i 442. See husband and wife privy, disclaim jurisdiction in admiralty court of, its jurisdiction, i 232 n in declaration, iii 293 295 law respecting election of members, &c. see County, trial by the, iii 349 iv 349 the several titles therein, i 475 r incidents and powers, i 477 cannot hold lands without licence, i 475 n acting with common seal, ib n making bye laws, i 476 n when should act by attorney, ib n resignation and removal of officers, i 484 n effects of, as to lands, i 484 ii 256 effect of "heir" in grant to, ii 109 n prescribing under a, ii 265 n Corporeal hereditaments, ii 17 Corpus juris canonici, i 82 civilis, i 81 Correction, house of, iv 370 371 377 of apprentices, i 428 iv 182 children, i 452 453 iv 182 County, i 116 iv 411. division into, i 113 n court, i 178 iii 35 iv 411 414 416 420 422 424 of Middlesex, iii 82 palatine, i 116 iv 431 cities and towns, which are, i 114 n meetings near Westminster, iv 148 n IN GENERAL, i 267 iii 23 iv 258 414 common pleas, iii 37 40 i 22 23 ecclesiastical, iii 67 88 and n; 94 n king's bench, iii 40 and n martial, i 415 nisi prius, iii 57 n requests, iii 81 and n CRIMINAL. of general public jurisdiction of lord high steward, ib 261 of king's bench, ib 265 of chivalry, ib 267 of admiralty, ib 268 of oyer and terminer, ib 269 of the peace, ib 270 Courts, criminal, commission of oyer and ter of general gaol delivery, ib of general quarter sessions, ib 271 and n 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 grace, iii 278 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 1 25 De la plus belle, dower, ii 132 Dead man's part, ii 518 Deadly feud, iv 244 Deaf, dumb, and blind, i 304 ii 497 Criminal conversation, iii 139 and n, law, iv 2 Dean, rural, i 383 Cross bills, iii 448 Deanry, rural, i 111 Death, appeal of, iv 314 424 of party before entering judgment, iii 399 n civil, what, i 133 n of king, parliament meets, i 150 n 187 n unnatural, township give notice to coroner, Dead bodies, offence of selling, iv 64 n digging up, ib iv 64 n arresting, iv 64 n stealing them, indictable offence, ii 429 n Debet et detinet, action in, iii 155 Debt, its meaning, &c. iii 155 of title by, ii 464 action of, iii 154 app 13 action of, on amercement, iii 161 national, and charge thereof, i 326 327 n iv a loss of so much property, i 328 Debtee executor, iii 18 Debtor, refusing to discover effects, iv 156 on the case, in nature of, iii 166 405 Deception of king in his grants, i 246 Declaration, iii 293 and n app 7 10 Declaratory, part of law, i 54 statutes, i 86 Declinatory plea, iv 333 335 Decree in equity, iii 451 and n 316 Decretum Gratiani, i 82 Dedimus potestatem, ii 351 iii 447 indenture, what, ii 296 and n voluntary, or upon consideration, ii 297 n signatures to, may be printed, ii 297 n |