Berwick-upon-Tweed, i, 99.
Besayle, writ of. iii, 186.

Bible, right to print, ii, 410 and n.
Bigamy, iv, 163.

Bill in parliament, i, 181.
how passed, id.

of rights, i, 128, 211-217; iv, 440.

for patent, ii, 346.

of indictment, iv, 302.

of exceptions, iii, 372.
of Middlesex, iii, 285.

in equity, iii, 442.

of privilege, iii, 289.

mode of appointment, i, 377.

powers and duties, i, 381, 382.

of arbitration, iii, 16.

to resign a living, when legal, ii, 280.
relief against penalty, iii, 432.
stealing of, iv, 234.
forgery of, iv, 249.

Bono et malo, writ de, iv, 270.
Books, copyright in, ii, 405.

popish, importing or selling, iv, 110.
and papers, production of, iii, 382.

Books of account, entries in, when may be

read in evidence, iii, 368.

Books of rates, i, 317.

Borough English, i, 75; ii, 83.

Boroughs, i, 115.

corporations of, i, 475, n.

parliamentary, i, 172, n.
election for, i, 174.

members for, i, 174.

courts, iii, 80.

Borrowing, contracts of, ii, 453.

Borsholder, i, 115, 356; iv, 413.
Botes or estovers, ii, 35, 122.
Bottomry, ii, 457, 461.
Bound bailiffs, i, 345.

Bounties on exportation, i, 315.

Bounty, Queen Anne's, i, 286.

Bourdeaux, mayor of, his certificate, iii, 334.
Boxing, offence of, iv, 183.

Bracton, i, 72, 425.

Breach of the peace, iv, 142.

chargeable upon him who begins an affray.

iii, 3.

Breach of prison, iv, 130.

of close, iii, 209.

of pound, iii, 146.

to make distress, iii, 11.

to make arrest, iii, 288.

Brehon laws in Ireland, i, 100; iv, 313.
Brevia testata, ii, 307.

Bribery of magistrates, &c., iv, 139 and n.
in elections, i, 179, 180, n.
Bridges, i, 357; iv, 424.
annoyances in, iv, 167.
British constitution, i, 50, 51.

(See "Constitution.")

islands, i, 105.

Canonists should study the common law, i, 15.
Canons of a church, i, 383.

of Edw. VI, i, 83.

of A. D. 1603, id.

Canterbury, archbishop of, i, 381.
precedence of i, 380, n.

Canterbury and York, struggle between arch-
bishops of, i, 115, n., 404, n.

Capacity to purchase or convey, ii, 290.
of guilt, iv, 20.

Capias ad audiendum judicium, iv, 375.

Capias ad respondendum in criminal cases, iv,
318, 429, 459.

allowed in actions of account by the stat-
utes of Marlbridge, iii, 281.

in actions of debt and detinue by 25 Edw.
III, c. 17, id.

in all actions on the case by 19 Hen. VII, c.
9, id.

was usually sued out in the first instance,
iii, 282.

return of non est inventus to, id.

testatum, id.

arrest of defendant upon iii, 287.
Capias ad satisfaciendum, iii, 413.

who it may issue after writ of elegit, iii, 419.
if noa est inventus returned, plaintiff may
proceed against the bail, iii, 416.

Capias in Withernam, iii, 148.

Capias pro fine, iii, 398.

Capias utlagatum, iii. 284; iv, 320.

Capiatur, judment quod, iii, 398, and App.

Capita, distribution per, ii, 517.

succession per, ii, 218.

Capital punishment, iv, 9, 18, 237, 376, 413, 441.
Ca, tenure in, ii, 60.

VOL. II.-73.

Caption of indictment, iv, 351, 448.
Captives, property in, ii, 402.
Caput lupinum, iv, 320.

Carnal knowledge of infants, iv, 212.
of women by force, iv, 210.

boy under fourteen presumed incapable of
iv, 212.

Carriers, special and general, ii, 45, n.
liabilities of special and general, 430, n.;
iii, 164.

lien of, ii, 451, n.

traveling on Sunday, iv, 64.
larceny by, iv, 230.

Cart-bote, ii, 35.

Case, action on, iii, 122; iv, 442.
and trespass, iii, 209.

for nuisance, iii, 222.
for waste, iii, 226.
reserved, iii, 378.

from chancery, iii, 453.

Castigatory for scolds, iv, 169.

Castle, what, ii, 19 and n.
Castration, iv, 206.

Casual ejector, iii, 201.
Catholics.

(See "Church," "Roman Catholics."
Cattle, owner of, liable for trespass by, iii, 212.
estrays, i, 297.

impounding, iii, 12.

malicious killing or maiming, iv. 244.

owner when answerable criminally for in-
juries by, iv, 197.

Causa matramonii prælocuti, writ of entry, ili,

183.

Cause, challenge for, iii, 361; iv, 355.
Caveat against proving will, iii. 98.

against admission of clerk, iii, 246.
Centenarius, i, 115.

Centeni, i, 116; iii, 34.

Centumviri, iii, 315.

Cepi corpus, iii, 288.

Certificate of bankrupt, ii, 482; 488.
of marriage, i, 438.

of poor, i, 364.

of bishop, iii, 335.

for costs, iii, 214.

into chancery, iii, 45.

of assize, iii, 389.

of customs of London, iii, 333.
trial by, id.

Certiorari facias, iv, 262, 265, 272, 320,
Cessavit, writ of, iii, 232.

Cessio bonorum, ii, 473, 483, 488.

Cession of a benefice, i, 392.

Cestuy que trust, ii, 328.

Cestuy que use, ii, 328.

Cestuy que vie, ii, 123.

Chains, hanging in, iv, 202.

Challenge of jury, iii, 359, 365, iv, 352.

to fight, iv, 150.

Chamberlain lord great, iii, 37.

Champerty, iv, 135.

Champions in trial by battle, iii, 35J.

Chance, iv, 26.

321.

Chancellor, lord high, his authority, iii, 37, 47.

formerly not a layman, iii, 433.

killing of, iv, 84.

Chancellor of a diocese, 1, 382.

of duchy of Laccaster, iii, 78

of exchequer, in, 44.

of university, his court, iii, 83.

577

(See "Libel.")

Charge to grand jury, iv, 303.
to traverse jury, iii, 375.
Chariots and cabriolets, i, 325.
Charitable uses, i, 479.

void gifts to, ii, 268, 273, 376.

otate tail may be appointed to, ii, 119.
Charities, jurisdiction of chancery, iii, 427.
remedy for breaches of trust, iii, 427.
Chapel, breaking and stealing from, iv, 241.
Charles I, his judges, i, 209, 316.
Charter, ii, 395.

Chivalry, court of, iii, 68; iv, 267.
its jurisdiction, iii, 103; iv, 267.
proceedings in, iii, 104.
guardian in, i, 462.

Chose in action, ii, 396, 442.

what are assignable, ii, 468, 470, n.
how assigned, iii, 441, 442.
stealing, iv, 234.

Christian courts, iii, 64.

Christianity, offences against, iv, 43 et seg
part of the law of England, iv, 60.
Church, head of, i, 279.
marriages in, i, 439.
rate, i, 395; iii, 92.
title to pews in, ii, 429.
repair of, iii, 92.

burglary in, iv, 224.

larceny in, iv, 241.

riotously demolishing, iv, 143.

offences against, iv, 50.

church yards, of affrays in, iv, 145.
societies in America, i, 376, n.
Churchwardens, i, 394.

Cinque ports, courts of, iii, 79.
Circuits, iii, 58, 356; iv, 422, 424.
Circumstantial evidence, iii, 371.

Citation in ecclesiastical courts, iii, 100.
Citizens in Parliament.

benefit of, i, 377, 402, n, iv, 333, 365, 113,
429, 441.

plea of, iv, 334.

prayer of, iv, 447.

abolition of, iv, 365, n.

Clergyman, beating of, iv, 217.

mortuary to bishop on death of, ii, 426,

when prohibited from hunting, ii, 412.

Clerical privileges and disabilities, i, 37′′
habit and tonsure, iv, 336.

Clerico admittendo, writ de, iii, 413.
Clerk in office, i, 17.

in orders, i, 388; iv, 367.

parish, i, 395.

of the market, his court, iv, 275.

of the peace, iv, 272.

or servant, embezzlement by, &c., iv, 27.

when it may be claimed, id.

in replevin, iii, 149.

Cognizor and cognizee, ii, 341, 350; iii, 157.
Cognovit actionem, iii, 297, 304.

Coin, falsifying, &c., iv, 84, 88, 90, 98, 100,
120.

felonies and misdemeanors relating to, iv,
84, 88, 90 et seq.

Coinage, instruments of, offences relating to,
iv, 90 et seq.
duties, i, 295.
right of, i, 277.

Coke, Sir Edward, i, 72, 73.

causes of his removal from the office of
chief justice of the king's bench, iii, 55.
Collateral consanguinity, ii, 204, 220.
Collateral issue, iv, 338, 396.

Collatio bonorum, ii, 517.

Collation to a benefice, iv, 391.

Colleges, i, 471.

their visitors, i, 482.

leases by, ii, 322.

Collegia in the civil law, i, 469.

Collieries, malicious injuries to, iv, 246.

Colonial assemblies, i, 109.

Colonies, i, 107-110.

transportation to, iv, 401.

Colonization, right of, ii. 7.
Color, in pleading, iii. 309.

Combinations, among workmen, &c., iv, 133,

to examine witnesses, &c., iii, 75, n., 383,
438, 449.

under the statute of charitable uses, iii, 427.
Commitment of persons accused, iv, 296.

reason for which it is made must be ex-
pressed, iii, 133.

Common jury, how returned, iii, 358.
Common law, i, 63, 67; iii, 267; iv, 411, 412.
despised by the clergy, i, 20.

distinguishable into three kinds, i, 67.
corporation by, i, 472.

guardian by, i, 461.

preference of operation of a deed by, ii,
380.

Common informer, iii, 160.

Common nuisances, iv, 166.

Common pleas, court of, its origin, iii, 38.
fixed at Westminster, i, 22, 23; iv, 424.
only sergeants admitted, iii, 28.
number of judges, iii, 40.

writ of error from, id.

Common prayer book, offence of reviling, iv,

50.

Common recovery, iv, 429.

(See "Recovery.")

Common scold, iv, 169.

Common seal, i, 475.

Common utterer of false money, iv, 100.
Commonalty, i, 403.

Commoners, when they may abate a nuisance
to a common, iii, 239, n.
Commons, house of, i, 158.

its members should study law, i, 9, 10.
its peculiar laws, i, 169.

Commonwealth, offences against, iv, 127.
Commorancy, iv, 273.

Communem legem, writ of entry ad, iii, 180.

Community of property, ii, 14.

Commutation of penance, iv, 105, 217, 276.

of tithes, i, 388, n.

Compact distinguished from law, ii, 45.

Companies, public, forgeries on, iv, 249.

(See "Corporations.")

Compassing the death of the king, &c., iv, 76.
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.

231, n., 280, n.

how organized, iii, 69, n.

of lunatic, i, 306.

of peers, iii, 56.

Common assurances, ii, 294.

Common, estate in, ii, 191, 399.
(See "Estate.")

of bastard's death, iv, 198.

Conclusion of pleas, iii, 303,

Concord in a fine, ii, 304; iii, 157.

Condemnation of goods in the exchequer, iii,

262.

of deodands, i, 300; iii, 259.
Condition, ii, 17, n., 110, 299.

Condition, distinguished from a remainder and

a conditional limitation, 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.
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, disturbance of, iv, 54

and n.

Congress of United States, meetings of, i, 153,
n,, 189, n.

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

lord high, i, 355; iii, 37; iv, 268.

his court, iii, 68; iv, 267.

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

Constable, petty, i, 355.

Constitution, British, i, 49, 50, 127, 144, 154,
160, 213, 217, 233, 237; iv, 439.

changes in, i, 155, n.

American, how they restrain legislative
power, i, 49, n., 52, n., 58, n., 89, n., 125, n.
(See "American States.)

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

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

of statutes, rules for, i, 87, 91.

(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.

in courts of law, iv, 283.

of court, process in equity, iii, 443.
Contentment, iv, 379.

Contingent remainders, ii, 169.

(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 government,
iii, 158.

original, between king and people, i, 233.
Contracts, ii, 442 et seq.

are either special or parol, ii, 446, 465.
when to be in writing, ii, 442, 447.
partial execution, ii, 447.

signature by one party only, ii, 442.

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.