of indictments, iv, 306, 308, 315, 351,
436.

Limited administration, ii, 506.
fee, ii, 109.

property, ii, 391.

Lineal descent of the crown, i, 194.
of lands.

(See "Descent.")
consanguinity, ii, 203.
warranty, ii, 301.
Linen, stealing, iv, 238.
Lip, cutting off, iv, 207.
Liquor licenses, i, 288.
Literary property, ii, 405.

Litigious church, iii, 243, 246.
Littleton, i, 72, 73.

Littoral rights, ii, 262, n.
Liturgy, reviling, iv, 50.
Livery of seisin, ii, 311.
abolished, ii, 314, n.
of ward, ii, 68.

in deed, ii, 315.

in law, ii, 316.

distress of goods of, iii, 7.

ogy, i, 33; ii, 58; iv, 417.

Lords, house of, i, 155, 168.
its peculiar laws, i, 167.
quorum of, iii, 56, n.
spiritual, i, 155, 156.
temporal, i, 157–159.
Lords' act, ii, 488, n.

Lords committees for courts, iii, 57.
Lords justices, iii, 55, n.
Lords triers, iv, 259, 260, 440.
Lotteries, iv, 168.

Lunacy, jurisdiction over, iii, 427.
appeal in matters of, ib.
Lunatic, iv, 24, 395.

(See "Idiot.")
conveyance by, ii, 291.
plea of non-competency, ib.
fine by, ii, 355, n.

will of, ii, 497.

marriage of, i, 439.

when chargeable for crimes, iv, 24,
195.

Luxury, laws against, iv, 170.

exportation of, iv, 160, and n.

Madder roots, stealing of, iv, 233.
Magistrates, i, 146.

Blackstone's conception of, i, 307.
supreme and subordinate, i, 338.
oppression by, iv, 141.

Magna assisa elegenda, writ de, iii, 351.
Magna charta, i, 127; iv, 423, 425.
contents of, iv, 423, 424.

Mail, stealing from, iv, 235, n.

opening letters in, i, 322, n.
carrying the, i, 321.

Mainour, iii, 71; iv, 307.

Mainpernors, iii, 128.

Mainprize, writ of, iii, 128.

Maintenance of bastards, i, 458.

of children, i, 447.

of parents, i, 454.

of suits, i, 428; iv, 134.

of wife, i, 442.

law of, in America, ii, 290, n.

Majorities, rule of, i, 478.

Making law, iii, 343.

Mal-administration of government, iv,

121.

Lollardy, iv, 47.

London, franchises of, not forfeitable,

iii, 264; iv, 424.

courts of, iii, 81.

customs of, i, 75, 76.

custom of, on intestacy, ii, 518.

market overt in, ii, 449.

trading by feme covert in, ii, 477.

chamberlain of, may take bonds, &c.,
by succession, ii, 432.
customs of, how tried, iii, 333.
whether defendant be a citizen, how
tried, iii, 334.

57, 58.

distinction reprobated, i, 58, n.

Male line preferred to female in de-
scent to crown, i, 194.

preferred to female in descent, ii, 212.
Malice, express, iv, 199.

criterion of felony, iv, 198.
implied, iv, 200.

prepense, iv, 198, 206.

in libels, iii, 123, n.; iv, 150.

in false prosecutions, iii, 126, n.
in murders, iv, 198.

in arson, iv, 222 and n.

under black act, iv, 246.

Malicious mischief, malice in, iv, 243.
Malicious prosecution, action for, iii,
126.

destruction of powdike in fens in
Norfolk and Ely, iv, 245.

of sea and river, &c., banks, bridges,
turnpikes, &c., iv, 144, 145.

of corn, barns, stacks, &c., iv, 245-247.
of horses, cattle, &c., iv, 246.
ships, &c., iv, 245.

of other property, iv, 247.
Malt tax, i, 314.

Malum prohibitum and malum in se,
i, 54, 57, n.

Man, Isle of, i, 406.

Mandamus, writ of, iii, 110; iv, 441.
return to, iii, 110.

demurrer to return, ib.

writ of error in case of, ib.

remedy for refusal to admit corpo-
rate officer, iii, 264.

to elect corporate officers, iii, 265.

is now in the nature of an action, iii,
264.

Mandates, royal, to the judges, i, 142;
iv, 426.

Manhood, ceremony of, ii, 54.

Manors, ii, 20, 90.

demesne lands, ii, 90.

within manors or houses, ii, 91.

sance, iii, 218.
towns, i, 114.

forestalling, iv, 158.

clerk of, his court, iv, 275.

Marque and reprisal, letters of, i, 258,
259, n.
Marquesses, i, 397.
Marriage, i, 433.

injuries to rights of, iii, 92.

(See "Husband and Wife."
common-law, i, 433, n., 438, 439, n.
statute regulating, i, 435, 437,n., 438, n.
a civil contract, iv, 433, 439.
clandestine, i, 439; iv, 162.

effect of, on status, i, 433, n., 442.
disabilities of, i, 434, 435.
royal, i, 225, 226.

when good, i, 436, 439, 440.
consummation of, i, 439.
of ward, ii, 70, 88.
settlement, ii, 364.

suit on contract of, iii, 93.
conditions in restraint of, ii, 154,
155, n.

title to personal property, ii, 433.
forcible, iv, 208.

in chivalry, iv, 418, 420, 421.

licenses and registers, forging or de-
stroying, iv, 163, 249.

Married Women.

(See "Husband and Wife.").

of the king's host, iii, 334.

Marshalsea, court of, iii, 76; iv, 276.
Martial courts, i, 413, n.; iv, 436.
Martial law, i, 413, n., 415.

Marts, public establishment of, i, 274.
Mass books, iv, 115.

Master and servant, i, 423.

right of correction, i, 428.
duty of care, i, 431, n.
liability of master, i, 429.

to fellow-servant, i, 431, n.
scope of employment, i, 430.
separate departments, i, 431.

action for inveigling servant, iii, 141.
action for battery of servant, ib.
basis of action, iii, 143, n.

stinting servant in food, offence of,
iv, 217.

embezzlement by servant, iv, 231.

Marechal, lord, iii, 38, 68.

and n.

Master of the rolls, iii, 56, 442, 451.
Master's report, iii, 454.
Matrimonial causes, iii, 92.

(See "Divorce.")

new court for, iii, 67, n.

Matrons, jury of, iii, 362; iv, 395.
Maxims of law, i, 68.

Mayhem, what is, and how remedied,

i, 130; iii, 121, 333.

appeal of, iv, 314.
inspection of, iii, 332.

offence of, iv, 205.

elements of the offence, iv, 207, 208.

Mayors among the Saxons, iv, 413.
Measures and weights, i, 274–277; iv,
275, 424.
false, iv, 159.

Medietate, jury de, iii, 246, 360; iv, 128,
166, 278, 352.

Meeting for military training forbid.
den, iv, 143.

Members of Congress privileged from
arrest, iii, 289, n.

Members of parliament, i, 153.
elections of, i, 170-180.
number of, i, 159.
qualifications of, i, 175.

should study the law, i, 9, 10.
privileges of, i, 164–170.
Memorial of annuity, ii, 461.
Memory, time of legal, i, 67; ii, 31.
Menaces, iii, 120.

Menial servants, i, 425.
Mercen-lage, i, 65; iv, 412.

Merchant trader, who is, ii, 476.
Merchants, custom of, i, 75.
foreign, i, 260; iv, 424.

Mercheta, ii, 83.

Merger, doctrine of, ii, 177.

Merton, parliament of, i, 19.

Minority, incidents of, i, 464.

(See "Infant.")
none in the king, i, 248.
Misadventure, homicide by, iv, 182.
Mischief, malicious, iv, 244 et seq.
Misdemeanor, iv, 1-5.

forcible, self-defence against, iii, 3, n.
high, iv, 121.
Mise, iii, 305.

Misfortune, unlawful act by, iv, 26.
Misnomer, consequence of, iii, 302; iv,
334.

Mispleading, when cured by verdict,
iii, 394.

Misprision against king and govern-
ment, iv, 119-126.

Mistake, iv, 27.

remedies at law and in equity, iii, 431.
Misuser in office, ii, 153.

of franchise, i, 485, n.

Mitigation of damages in slander, iii,
125, n.

Mitigating circumstances in criminal
law, iv, 15.

Mitter le droit, ii, 325.
Mitter l'estate, ii, 324.
Mittimus, iv, 300.

theology, ii, 58; iv, 417.

Michel-gemote, i, 147.
Michel-synoth, i, 147.

Middlesex, county court of, iii, 82.
bill of, iii, 285.

Migration, ii, 7.

Military courts, i, 83; iii, 68.
law, i, 417; iii, 103.

distinguished from martial law, i,

413, n.

upon tithes, ii, 32.

Money, right to coin, i, 276.

bills, i, 170, 184.

payment of, into court, iii, 304.
paid for another, iii, 162.
had and received, ib.
counterfeiting, iv, 84, 88.
interest upon, ii, 454 et seq.
(See "Interest.")

legal tender, i, 277 and n.
Monks, i, 132.

Monopolies, statute against, ii, 407; iv,
159, 436.

Monster cannot inherit, ii, 246.
Monstrans de droit,. iii, 256.

Monuments are heir looms, ii, 428.
Month, lunar and calendar, ii, 141,
Moral consideration, ii, 445, n.
Mort d'ancestor, assize of, iii, 185.
for rent, iii, 231.
Mortgage, ii, 157 et seq.

distinguished from pawn, ii, 452.
tacking, ii, 160.

who primarily liable upon, ib.
power of sale in, ib.

equitable mortgage by deposit of title
deeds, ib.

tenancy under mortgagee, ii, 150, n.
mortgagor not tenant at will, ii,

158, n.

effect of bankruptcy of mortgagor,
ii, 487.

Mortgage, jurisdiction of equity over,
iii, 435, 439.

provision for reduction of interest,
iii, 432.

parol evidence to show deed to be,
ii, 158, n.

Mortmain, statutes of, i, 479; ii, 268;
iv, 108, 424, 426, 441.

in force in United States, ii, 274, n.
personal annuities of inheritance,
ii, 41.

devises in, ii, 375.

license of, ii, 268, 272.

Mortuaries, ii, 425.

Mother church, i, 112.

Motion in court, iii, 304.

Motives of legislators not inquirable

into, i, 246, n.
nor of king, i, 246.
Mount, or bank, 328.
Mountebanks, iv, 167.
Movables, ii, 384.

(See "Personalty.")

Mulier puisne, ii, 248.

Multiplicity of laws, iii, 225.

Municipal corporation, i, 475.

| Nature, crime against, iv, 215.
Navigable rivers. (See "Rivers.")
Navigation acts, i, 418; iv, 439.
Navy, articles of, i, 420.
Ne admittas, writ of, iii, 248.
Ne exeat regno, i, 137, 266; iv, 122.
Ne injuste vexes, writ of, iii, 234.
Necessaries, liability for, i, 449, 466, n.
Necessity, when it excuses crime, iv,
27, 31.

homicide by, iv, 178.
ways by, ii, 35, n.

Negative in corporations, i, 478.
of the king, i, 154, 184, n.

Negligence, iii, 163.

liability of advocate for, iii, 165 and n.
of bailee, ii, 451, n.

of officers, iv, 140.

of physician, iv, 197, n.

Negligent escape, iii, 415; iv, 130.
Negotiable paper, ii, 442, n.

(See "Bills of Exchange and Promis-
sory Notes.")

Negotiability, meaning of, ii, 468, 442, n.
Negro, i, 127, 425; ii, 402.
slavery abolished, i, 425.

(See "Corporation.")

Municipal courts, iv, 272.

Municipal law, i, 44; iii, 1.

Murder, defined, iv, 194.

by perjury, iv, 138, 196.

person killed must be reasonable

being, iv, 197.

malice aforethought. iv, 198.

punishment of, iv, 201.

Nembda, iii, 350,

New assignment, iii, 311.

New promise to revive debt, iii, 306, n.
New trial, when granted, iii, 387, 391.
origin of practice of granting, iii, 388.
promotes the ends of justice, iii, 391.
granting upon terms, iii, 393.
motion for, when to be made, ib.
in criminal cases, iv, 361, 393, n., 438.

News, spreading of false, iv, 149.
Newspaper, libel by, iii, 125, n.
Next of kin, ii, 224.

right of, to administer, ii, 504.
distribution among, ii, 515.
guardian for lunatic, &c., i, 305.
Nient culpable, plea of, iv, 339.
Night, in burglary what is, iv, 224.
Night-walkers, iv, 292.
Nihil, return of, iii, 282.
Nihil debet, plea of, iii, 305.
Nihil dicet, judgment by, iii, 369.
Nisi prius, courts of, iii, 58.
commission of, iii, 60; iv, 269.
opening of commission, ib.
clause of in venire facias, iii, 352.
trial at, iv, 351.

writ of, not grantable when the king
is a party, iii, 352, n.

Nobility, i, 157, 396.

how created, i, 399.

how lost, i, 402.

king the fountain of, i, 271.
incidents of, i, 401.

study of law by, i, 11, 12, 25.

Nocturnal crimes, preventing or resist-
ing, iv, 180.

Nolle contendere, iv, 329, n.

Non assumpsit, plea of, iii, 305.

of infants, i, 465.

Non compos mentis, i, 304; ii, 497; iv,
24, 395.

(See "Lunacy.")
Non-conformity, iv, 51, 432.
Non culpabilis, iii, 305; iv, 339.
Non est factum, plea of, iii, 305.

Non est inventus, return of, iii, 383.
Non-juror, iv, 124.

Non prosequitur, iii, 296.

Non obstante, i, 342; ii, 273; iv, 401.
Non obstante veredicto, judgment, iii,
394, n., 397, n.

Non-residence of clergy, i, 391.
Nonsuit, iii, 296, 316, 357, 376.
Non sum informatus, judgment by, iii,
297.

Northern borders, rapine on, iv, 244.
Norman conquest, i, 199; ii, 60; iv, 414,

415.

every continuance a fresh, iii, 220.
assize of, iii, 221, 413.

liability of landlord for, ii, 144, n.
by obstructing navigable stream, iii,
5, n.

when notice to remove must be given,
iii, 5, n.

to private ways, iii, 241.

houses, &c., iv, 167.

lotteries, fireworks, eavesdroppers

and common scolds, iv, 168.

Oath against bribery at elections, i, 180.
of allegiance, i, 367.

of supremacy and abjuration, i, 368, n.
of president, i, 235.

to witness, form of, iii, 365.

of the party, iii, 382, 437.

ex officio, abolished, iii, 100, 447.
to the government, refusal or neg
lect to take, iv, 116, 117, 123.
when nature of not understood, trial
may be put off, iv, 214, n.
voluntary and extra-judicial, iv, 137.
Obedience to parents, i, 452.
Obligation of human laws, i, 43, 57, 59.
or bond, ii, 340.

Obstructing process, iv, 129.
Occupancy the origin of property, ii, 3,
8, 258, 400.

of new lands left by the sea or river,
ii, 261.

special, ii, 258.

Odhal right, ii, 45.

Odio et.atia, writ de, iii, 128.

Offensive trades, &c., nuisance by,
iii, 217.

Office, king the fountain of, i, 271.
terms of, in United States, ii, 36, n.
inquest of, iii, 258.

of the six clerks, iii, 443.

"Office found," i, 370, n.; ii, 249, n., 257,
n., 268, n.; iii, 259, n.

Officers, arrest by, iv, 292.

Officers, killing of, in execution of of-
fice, iv, 200.

of revenue, assault on, iv, 155.

constable, assault on, iv, 129.

public, embezzlement by, iv, 230.
refusal to admit, iii, 264.
negligence, iv, 141.

Offices, ii, 36.

when grantable in reversion, ii, 36.
property in, ii, 37, n.

curtesy of, ii, 126, n.

pay of certain officers not assignable,
ii, 36, 141, n.

and pensions, duty on, i, 327, 328, n.
usurpation of, how remedied, iii, 262.
Old age does not disqualify from mak-
ing will, ii, 497.

Oleron, laws of, i, 419; iv, 423.
Omnipotence of parliament, i, 160.
Oppression of crown, how remedied,
i, 243.

of magistrates, iv, 141.
Option of the archbishop, i, 381.
Optional writs, iii, 274.

Orchards, robbery of, iv, 233.
damaging plants, &c., in, iv, 247.

167.

Order of sessions, iv, 272.