Compensatio, iii, 305.

Composition with creditors, ii, 484.

Compound larceny, iv, 239.

(See "Larceny.")

Compounding felony, iv, 133.

other prosecutions, iv, 136.

Compulsion, iv, 27.

Compurgators, iii, 343; iv, 368, 414.
in equity, iii, 447.

Computation of time, ii, 140, n.

Concealment from the crown, iv, 436.

of bastard's death, iv, 198.

Conclusion of pleas, iii, 303.
Concord in a fine, ii, 304; iii, 157.
Condemnation of goods in the excheq
uer, ii, 262.

of deodands, i, 300; iii, 259.
Condition, ii, 17, n., 110, 299.
Condition, distinguished from a re-
mainder and a conditional limita-
tion, ii, 155, 156.
requisites of, ii, 156.

estates upon, ii, 152.

implied or express condition, ii, 152,
154, 299.

precedent or subsequent, ii, 154.
in deed and in law, ii, 155.
effect of breach of, ii, 156, 281, n.
equity will not enforce by forfeiture,
ii, 157, n.

impossible or illegal, ii, 156, 340.
estate in mortgage, ii, 157.
(See "Mortgage.")
Conditional fee, ii, 109, n.
(See "Estate.")

Conditional limitation, ii, 156.
Conditional pardon, iv, 401.
Confession by prisoners, iv, 357.
of indictment, iv, 329.

in divorce cases, i, 441, n.

of cause of action, iii, 303, 397.
in ejectment, iii, 203.

of debt barred by statute, iii, 306, n.
Confinement to the realm, i, 265.
Confirmation, ii, 325.

of bishops, i, 378, 380; iv, 115.
Confiscation, iv, 377.

Confiscations, part of royal revenue,
i, 299.

Confusion and intermixture of goods,
ii, 405.

Conge d'eslire, i, 379, 382; iv, 421.
Congregations, religious, disturbances
of, iv, 54 and n.

Congress of United States, meetings
of, i, 153, n., 189, n.
territorial jurisdiction, i, 120.
how composed, i, 160, n.
revenue bills in, i, 170, n.
approval of bills, i, 185, n.

Conies, taking, killing or stealing, iv,
235.

Conjugal rights, suit for restitution of,
iii, 94.

Conjuration, iv, 60, 436.
Conquest, the words, ii, 48, 242.

Conquest, Norman, i, 199; iv, 414, 415.
introduction of feudal tenures on,
ii, 48.

Consanguinity, i, 434, 435, n.

degrees of, ii, 202, 206.
collateral, ii, 204.

Conscience, laws binding on the, i, 54,
57, n.

courts of, iii, 441.

Consecration of bishops, i, 380; iv, 115.
Consent, the corner-stone of the law, i,
73, 160.

Consequential damages, iii, 153.
Conservators of the peace, i, 350; iv,
413, 431.

(See "Justice.")

Conservators, truce and safe-conducts,
iv, 69.

Conservatory, robbery of, iv, 233, and n.
| Consideration for a contract, ii, 443,
444, n., 468.

moral obligation, ii, 445, n.
in a deed, ii, 296.

different kinds of, ii, 444.

inadequacy of, ii, 444, n.

Consideratum est per curiam, iii, 396.
Consilium, or imparlance, iv, 356.
Consimili casu, writ of entry in, iii,
183.

Consistory court, iii, 64.
Consolidated fund, i, 331.
Consort, queen's, i, 219.

Conspiracy, law of, in general, iv, 136.
to raise wages, iii, 160.
action of, iii, 126.

Constable, petty, i, 355, 411; iv, 292.
high, i, 115.

lord high, i, 355; iii, 37; iv, 268.
history of officer, i, 356.

power in United States. i, 357.
his court, iii, 68; iv, 267.

his duty, on arrest in criminal cases,
iv, 296.

Constitution, British, i, 49, 50, 127, 144,
154, 160, 213, 217, 233, 237; iv, 439.
checks and balances in, i, 51.
changes in, 155, n.

American, how they restrain legis-
lative power, i, 49, n., 52, n., 58, n.,
89, n., 125, n.

Gothic, principles of, i, 238.

(See "American States.")

Construction of deeds and wills, ii, 115,
297 et seq., 379, 397 et seq.

rules of, in equity, the same as at
law, iii, 430.

of statutes, rules for, i, 87, 91.
practical and executive, i, 91, n.

(See also "Interpretation of Law.")
Constructive treason, iv, 75, 85.

taking, in larceny, iv, 230, n.
Consul, offences to his person, iv, 70, n.
Consultation, writ of, why so called,
iii, 114.

Contempt against the king, iv, 121.

power of legislature to punish, i, 163.

283, n.

(See ("Remainder.")

conveyance of, ii, 290, 354.
uses, ii, 334.

legacy, ii, 513.

Continual claim, ii, 316; iii, 174.
Continuances, iii, 316.

Continuando, laying trespass with a,
iii, 212.

Contract of marriage, i, 439; iii, 93.

implied in the organization of gov
ernment, iii, 158.

original, between king and people,
i, 233.

Contracts, ii, 442 et seq.

chose in action created by, ii, 442.
are either special or parol, ii, 446,
465.

when to be in writing, ii, 442, 447.
elements of, ii, 442.

partial execution, ii, 447.
signature by one party only, ii, 442.
negotiability of, ii, 442, n.

express or implied, ii, 443; iii, 153, 158.
executed or executory, ii, 443.
simple or special, ii, 465.

consideration to support, ii, 296, 443.
improvidence of, ii, 444.
nudum pactum, ii, 445.
kinds of, ii, 446.

(See "Bailments," " Borrowing,"
"Debt," "Exchange," "Hiring,"
"Sale.")

of marriage, i, 439; iii, 93.

actions on, iii, 117.

specific performance of, iii, 435, 438.

for sale of lands, possession under,
ii, 140, n., 146, n.

forbidden by law are void, i, 58.

(See "Entire Contracts.")

Contractu, action ex, iii, 117.
Convention of estates, i, 151, 152.
of parliament, i, 152.
Convention parliament, i, 151.
Conversion, iii, 152.

Conveyances, origin and history of, ii, 9,
287; iv, 430.

forms of, ii, 297.
attornment, ii, 290.

who may convey, and to whom, ii, 290.
to a corporation, ii, 290.
kinds of, ii, 294, 309 et seq.
writing essential to, ii, 297.
to be signed, ii, 306.

by deed, ii, 295.

classes of, ii, 309.

lease and release, ii, 339.

to lead or declare uses, ii, 339.

of revocation and defeasance, ii, 339.

under the statute of uses, ii, 309, 337.
by matter of record, ii, 344.
rules for construing, ii, 379.
Conveyances of freehold, ii, 311 et seq.
of contingent remainders, ii, 290, n.,
354.

of incorporeal hereditaments, ii, 317.
fraudulent, ii, 296.

Convict, transportation of, iv, 401.
rescue of, iv, 131.

execution of, iv, 403.

Conviction in general, iv, 280.
summary, iv, 280.

in frauds against revenue laws, iv,
281.

before justices for disorderly offences

in general, iv, 281.

by judgment, iv, 362.
Convocation, i, 279.

court of bishops in, iii, 67.
Coparceners, ii, 187.

(See "Estate.")

Copper coin, counterfeiting, iv, 100.
Copy of indictment, right of prisoner
to, iv, 351.

of record of indictment, iii, 126.
Copyhold, ii, 90, 95, 147.

security of, ii, 96.

varieties of tenure by custom, ii, 148.
tenant's right of renewal, ii, 148.
evolution of the estate, ii, 148.
customary freeholds, ii, 107, 149.
lands, parcel of the manor, ii, 97.
demisable immemorially by custom,
ii, 97.

inheritable or for life, ii, 97, 98.
heriots, ii, 97, 422, 424.
wardship, ii, 98.

admittance of heir, ii, 97, n., 371.
customary court and court-baron,
ii, 90, n.

court of ancient demesne, ii, 100.
fines, ii, 98.

modes of alienation, ii, 365.

surrender, re-grant and admittance,
ii, 366, 368 et seq.

trusts of, ii, 367, n.

devise of, by unadmitted heir, dev-

isee or surrenderee, ii, 367, n
estate of surrenderor, ii, 368.
entails of, how barred, ii, 113.
free bench, ii, 132.

forfeiture for breach of custom,
ii, 284.

when affected by an act of parlia-
ment, ii, 113.

could not formerly be taken in exe-
cution, iii, 418.

but may now, iii, 419, n.
Copyright, ii, 405 et seq., 410.

prerogative copyright of crown in
acts of parliament, bibles, etc.,
ii, 410.

Coram nobis reached errors of fact,
iii, 406, n.

Corn, may be distrained, iii, 9.
destroying, iv, 246.

sporting, &c., in, iv, 174.

stopping it going to market, iv, 158.

Corn rents, ii, 322.

Cornage, ii, 74.

Cornwall, duchy of, i, 225, n.

Corody, i, 284; ii, 40.

Coronation oath, ancient, i, 236.
modern, i, 235.

made use of to prevent catholic
emancipation, i, 235, n.
Coronatore eligendo, writ de, i, 374.
exonerando, writ de, i, 348.
Coroner, i, 346; iv, 292, 413.
duration of office of, i, 348.
mode of appointing, i, 347.
power and duty of, i, 348.

of duchy of Lancaster, 1, 119, n.
when venire facias issues to, iii, 354.
his court, iv, 274.

apprehending felon, iv, 292.
Saxon laws, as to. iv, 413.
inquest of, equivalent to finding of
grand jury, when, iv, 274, n.
inquisition of, formal defects in, ib.
Corporate counties, i, 120.
name, i, 474.

officers, remedy by mandamus for re-
fusal to admit to, i, 264.
franchises, usurpation of, iii, 262.
Corporation acts, iv, 58, 439, 443, n.
Corporation, i, 467.

an artificial person, i, 467, n.
distinguished from associations, i, 467.
history of, i, 468.
aggregate, i, 469.

power to create in United States,
i, 272.

ecclesiastical, i, 470.

eleemosynary, i, 470.

governor of state as, i, 470, n.

dissolution of, i, 484.

duties of, i, 480.

how created, i, 472, n.

Corporation, when may take chattel by
succession, ii, 431.

conveyance to, ii, 108, 290.

no escheat or extinction of, ii, 256.
leases by, ii, 319 et seq.

grants to, in mortmain.
(See "Mortmain.")

Corporeal hereditaments, ii, 17.
nuisances as to, iii, 216.
Corpse, stealing of, ii, 420.
property in, ii, 429, n.
Corpus juris canonica, i, 82.
Corpus juris civilis, i, 81.
Correction of apprentices, i, 428.
of children, i, 452, 453; iv, 182.
of scholars, i, 453; iv, 182.
of servants, i, 428; iv, 182.
of wives, i, 444.

house of, iv, 370, 371, 377.

Corruption of blood, ii, 251; iv, 388, 413,
438, 440.

Corse-present, ii, 425.

Corsned, trial by, iv, 345. 414.
Cosinage, writ of, iii, 186.

Costs, title to, by judgment, ii, 432.
statutes by which they are given,
iii, 399.

king neither pays nor receives, iii,
400.

exceptions, iii, 400, n.

when executors liable to pay, iii, 400.
in actions on the case, when plaint-
iff recovers less damages than 40s.,
iii, 214, 400.

paupers excused from paying, iii, 400.
in trespass, iii, 214.

on not going to trial, iii, 357.

in equity, iii, 451.

in criminal cases, iv, 362 and n.
Council, judicial committee of privy,
i, 232, n., 280, n.; iii, 61, n., 80, n.
president of the, i, 230, n.

its present organization, iii, 69, n.
the great, i. 148.

Councils of the king, i, 22.

laws, i, 476, 477.

lay, i, 470.

origin of, i, 468.

name of, i, 474.

respondeat superior, i, 475, n.

privileges and disabilities of, i, 476,

477.

Counsel, king's, iii, 27.

cannot maintain an action for his
fees, iii, 28.

action against, iii, 164.

not answerable for any matter spoken
by him, iii, 29.

for prisoners, iv, 355.

Count, i, 116, 398.

in declaration, iii, 293, 295.

in indictment, iv, 98, 306, n.
Counterfeiting the king's coin, iv, 84,
88, 100, n.

the king's seals, iv, 83, 89.
Counterpart of deed, ii, 296.
Counties, i, 114, 116; iv, 411.
corporate, i, 120.

palatine, i, 117-119; iv, 431.
courts of, iii, 79.
members for, i, 159.
electors for, i, 172, 173.

Country, trial by the, iv, 349.

County court, i, 267; iii, 35; iv, 411, 441.
of Middlesex, iii, 82.

holden by the sheriff, i, 343.
its jurisdiction, iii, 36.
when holden, iii, 36.

formerly a court of great dignity, ib.
formerly as much a spiritual as a
temporal tribunal, iii, 61.
Court-baron, ii, 90; iii, 33; iv, 411.

may hold plea of personal actions
under 40s., iii, 34.

writ of false judgment lies to courts
at Westminister, ib.

Court, payment into, when it may be,
iii, 304, n.

Court hand, iii, 323.

Courts, with ecclesiastical jurisdiction,
i, 83.

their nature and incidents, iii, 23;
iv, 258, 414.

derived from the power of the crown,
iii, 23.

some are of record, others are not,
iii, 24.

their constituent parts, iii, 25.
Saxon, iii, 30.

assaults in, iv, 125.

are of four sorts: common law and
equity, ecclesiastical, military, and
maritime, iii, 30.
origin of, iii, 30.

inferior, have fallen into decay, ib.
aula regia, iii, 37.

establishment of distinct, has been ad-
vantageous, iii, 31, 40.

power to erect, i, 267; iii, 24.

practice of tried by certificate of of-
ficers, iii, 335.

of equity, i, 62, 92.
jurisdiction of, iii, 46, 443.
proceedings in, iii, 425 et seq.

(See "Chancery," "Equity," "Plead-
ing," "Practice.")

Christian, and others, which receive
peculiar laws, i, 83; iii, 61.
martial, i, 416; iii, 68.

profits of, i, 289.

of piepoudre, iii, 32.

baron, iii, 33.

customary, ii, 90.

of bankruptcy, iii, 56, 428, n.

hundred court, iii, 34.

county, iii, 35.

of wards and liveries, ii, 69.

of common pleas, iii, 37.

of exchequer, equitable jurisdiction
of, iii, 426.

jurisdiction of, in respect of royal
matters, iii, 428.

Courts of exchequer, general jurisdic-
tion of, iii, 43.

of high commission, iii, 447.

of master of rolls, iii, 451.

of vice chancellors, iii, 426.

criminal, iv, 259 et seq.

Courts of parliament, iii, 56; iv, 259.
of lord high steward, iv, 261.
of king's bench, iii, 41; iv, 265.
of star chamber, i, 230; iii, 445; iv,
266, 310, 429, 433, 437.
of chivalry, iii, 68; iv, 267.
of admiralty, iii, 68; iv, 268.

of oyer and terminer, iii, 58; iv, 269,
commission of assize and nisi prius,
iii, 57; iv, 269.

of general quarter sessions, iv, 271
and n.

central criminal court, iv, 271, n.
sheriff's tourn, iv, 273.

court-leet, or view of frank-pledge, ib.
of coroner, iv, 274.

of clerk of market, iv, 275.

of special and private jurisdiction, ib.
of lord steward, treasurer, or comp

troller of king's household, iv, 276.
forest, iii, 71.

of commissions of sewers, iii, 73.
of policies of insurance, iii, 74.
of the marshalsea, iii, 76.

of Wales, iii, 77.

of duchy of Lancaster, iii, 78, 429.
of counties palatine, iii, 79.
stannary, iii, 80.

of London, &c., iii, 81.

of the universities, iii, 83.
Costumier of Normandy, i, 107.
Covenant, what it is, iii, 156.

who may take advantage of, iii, 157
and n.

what run with the land, iii, 157, n.
against devisees, iii, 430, n.

by or with persons not parties to the
deed, iii, 296, n.
implied, ii, 443, n.

real. ii, 304; iii, 157.
for title, ii, 304.

when it runs with the land, ii, 304, n.
classes of, ii, 304.

to stand seized, ii, 338

writ of, ii, 350; iii, 156.
Covert-baron, i, 442.
Coverture, i, 442.

(See "Husband and Wife.

Craven, iv, 348.

meaning of the word, iii, 340, n.
Credible witness, iii, 370.

Creditors, payment of debts of, by exec-

utor, ii, 511.

appointing debtor executor, ii, 511
and n.