in regard to, iii, 427, n.

Trusts, ii, 327 et seq., 336.

jurisdiction over, iii, 431, 439.

when cognizable, id.

of lands, must be manifested by writing, ii,

306, 337.

estates of trustees and cestui que trust, ii, 337.
curtesy of, ii, 127, n., 132, n.
merger of, ii, 337, n.

Tub-man in the exchequer, iii, 28.

Tumultuous petitioning, i, 143; iv, 147.
Turbary, common of, ii, 34.
Turnips, stealing, iv, 233.

Turnpikes, destroying, iv, 145.
Tutor, i, 306, 453, 460.

Twelve tables, laws of, i, 80.

Tyranny, i, 126, 133.

Unitarians, iv, 50, n.

United States of America.

(See "American States.")

Unities of joint estates, ii, 180.

University, study of law in, i, 16, 26–37.
burgesses of, i, 174.

courts of, i, 83; iii, 83; iv, 277.
nature of, i, 26, 37, 471.

certificate of chancellor of, iii, 335.
copyrights of, ii, 407.

rights of, to benefices, iii, 241.

Unknown persons, larceny from, iv, 236, 359.
Uses, invention of, ii, 271.

and trusts, ii, 137, 271, 327 et seq.; iii, 52.
statute of, ii, 332; iv, 430.

springing, shifting and resulting, ii, 334.
what not executed by statute of, ii, 335.
continued as trusts, ii, 336.

estates of trustee and cestui que trust, ii,
337.

forms of conveyances, ii, 337.

resulting, rebutted by parol, ii, 364, n.

deeds to lead, declare or revoke, ii, 339, 363.

in equity, ii, 43.

Usura maratima, ii, 458.
Usurpation of patronage, iii, 242.

remedy for, iii, 243.

of franchise or office, iii, 262.

Usury, ii, 454 et seq.; iv, 116, 156.
Usus fructus, ii, 327.

Uttering false money, iv, 89, 90.
forged notes, iv, 248, 250.

Vagrants, iv, 170.
harboring, id.

in criminal cases, iv, 305.
Valor beneficiorum, i, 285.
maritagii, ii, 70, 88.

Valuable consideration, ii, 297.
Valvasors, i, 403.

Variance, amendment of, iii, 393 n
Vassal, ii, 45 et seq.

(See "Feudal System.")

the word, ii, 53, n.

Vendor's lien, ii, 158, n.

Venire de novo, when awarded, iii, 394
Venire facias, iii, 351, 357.

teste and return of, iii, 353.

when it issues to coroners or elisors, iii, 354.

Ventre inspiciendo, writ de, i, 456.

Ventre sa inere, children in, i, 130; ii, 169.

Venue, how to be laid, iii, 293; iv, 305.
changing, iii, 293, 384.

in criminal cases, iv, 304.
Verberation, iii, 120.
Venderors, iii, 71, 72.
Verdict, iv, 360, 457.

false, iii, 402; iv, 140.

in action, indictment on, iv, 302, n.
must be unanimous, iii, 375.

plaintiff must be present at delivery of, iii
376.

privy verdict, id.

public, iii, 377.

special, id.

formerly reversed by writ of attaint, iii, 388.
what omissions aided by, iii, 394.

Verge, tenant by, ii, 148.

Verge of the court, iii, 76; iv,
Verification, iii, 313.

276.

Vert, venison, and covert, injury to, iii, 71.
Vesting of estates, ii, 168, 174.

of legacies, ii, 513.
Vesture of land, ii, 34, n.
Vetitum namium, iii, 148.
Veto, i, 184, n., 185, n.
Vicar, i, 384; ii, 318 et seq.
(See "Tithes.")

Vicarages, i, 387; iv, 428.

Vice-admiralty court, iii, 69.

Vice-chancellors, iii, 55, n., 426, n.

Vice-warden of the stannaries, court of, iii, 80, n

Vicineto, jury de, iii, 385.

Vicontiel writs, iii, 238.

Vidames, i, 403.

View, iii, 299, 358.

of frankpledge, iv, 279.

Viewers, appointment of jurors for, iii, 355.
Vill, i, 114.

Villeins, ii, 92; iv, 420.

enfranchisement of, ii, 94.

waste of, ii, 282.

Villenage, ii, 53, 61, 89, 92, 98.

Villeinous judgment, iv, 136.

Vinculo divorcia, iii, 94.

Vindicatory part of a law, i, 56-59.

Wapentakes,

116.

War, articles of, i, 415, 417.

levying against the king, iv, 81.

War and peace, right of making, i, 257.

Ward by constables, &c., i, 356; iv, 292, 426.

Wards and liveries, court of, iii, 258.

Wardship, ii, 52, 67, 87, 97.

in chivalry, iv, 418, 420, 421.

Warlike stores, embezzlement of, iv, 101.
Warrant, i, 137.

arrest by, iv, 290.

arrest without, iv, 292, 293.

Warrant of attorney, iii, 397.

Warrantia chartæ, iii, 300.

Warranty, express and implied, ii, 300; iii,

165.

lineal and collateral, ii, 301.

present effect of, ii, 302, 303, n.

on exchange, ii, 323.

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Warranty, of goods, ii, 451 and n.
on exchange of goods. ii, 446, n.
Warren, ii, 417.

robbery of, iv, 235.

in disguise, iv, 144.
beasts and fowls of, ii, 38.
Waste, ii, 185, 281 et seq.; iii, 223.
voluntary or permissive, ii, 281.

by tenant in tail, ii, 115; iii, 223.
by tenant in tail after possibility, &c., ii, 125.
of villeins, ii, 282.

who may sue for, iii, 244.

injunction to stay, ii, 282, n., iii. 227, 442.
writ of, iii, 227.

action on the case in nature of, iii, 229, n.
estates without impeachment of, ii, 122, n.
by stranger, tenant may be held liable for,
iii, 229, n.

Waste lands, ii, 14, 90.

Watch, i, 356; iv, 292, 426.
Water, how described, ii, 18.

property in, ii, 18, 266, n., 402.

Water course, ii, 36, n., 266, n.
alluvion, &c., upon, ii, 261, n.
offences as to, iv, 167.

abatement of nuisances in, iii, 5, n.

Watermen overloading their boats, iv, 192.

plying on Sunday, iv, 64.

Water ordeal, iv, 342.

Way, right of, by grant, prescription, and ne-
cessity, ii, 35.

remedy, when out of repair, ii, 36 and n.
obstruction of a nuisance, iii, 218.

action for obstruction, iii, 241,

Ways and means, committee of, i, 307.
Weights and measures, i, 274-277; iv, 275,
278, 424.

false, iv, 159.

Wells, property in, ii, 5.

Welsh mortgage, ii, 157, n.

Weregild, iv, 188, 313, 413.

West Saxon lage, i, 65; iv, 412.

Whales, royal fish, i, 223.

Wharfs, i, 264.

Whipping, punishment of, iv, 372, 377.

White rent, ii, 42.

Widow's chamber, ii, 518.

quarantine, ii, 135.

Wife, i, 433.

when she may be taken in execution, iii, 413, n.
battery of, iii, 140.

(See Husband and Wife.")

Wight, Isle of, i, 105.

Will, defect of, excuse for crime, iv, 20.
vicious, iv, 21.

estate at, ii, 145.

payment, &c., of legacies, ii, 512, 513.
donatio mortis cansa, ii, 514.

right of executor to residue, ii, 514.
alienation by devise, history of, ii, 373.

customary power of devising, ii, 367, 371, n.,
373.

devise of use, ii, 375.

devises to charity, &c., id.

signature and attestation of. ii, 376, 501.
revocation of, ii, 376, 379, 502.
gifts to witnesses, ii, 377.
fraudulent devises, ii, 378.

land purchased after will made, ii, 379, n.
lapse of gifts, ii, 379, n., 513.

what words pass a fee, ii, 108, 120, n.

heir looms not devisable apart from freehold,
ii, 429.

rules of construction, ii, 379.

(See "Deed.")

implication of cross remainders in, ii, 381.
fraudulently obtained, ii, 431.
forgery of, iv, 249, 250.

Winchester measure, i, 274.

Window duties, i, 325, 326.

Windows, ancient, ii, 402.

Wine, adulteration of, iv, 162.
licenses, i, 288.

-Witchcraft, iv, 60, 436.

Withdrawing from allegiance, i, 369, 370, n.;

iv, 87.

privilege of, from arrest, iii, 289, n.
what persons admissible as, iii, 319.

how attendance of, compelled, iii, 369.

two always required by civil law, iii, 370;
iv, 350.

advantages of open examination, ii, 373.
examination when abroad or unable to at-
tend, iii, 383, n.

for prisoners, iv, 359, 441.
their expenses, iv, 362.

two, when necessary, iii, 370; iv, 350.
recognizance to give evidence by, iv, 296.
Wittena-gemote, i, 148; iii, 37; iv, 412.
Women, appeals by, iv, 424.

and children, stealing or seduction of, iv, 209.

ir, 369.

jury of, iii, 362; iv, 395.
Wood, stealing, iv, 233.

burning, damaging, ac., iv, 246.
Woodmote, court of, iii, 71.

Wool, &c., transporting, iv, 154, 428.
Words, action for, iii, 123.

costs in action for, iii, 400.
treasonable, iv, 79.

of statutes must prevail, i, 81, 88.
Work-house, iv, 371.

Wounding, iii, 121; iv, 208, 216.
Wreck, i, 291, 293; ii, 14, 409
plundering, iv, 239, 304.
Writ, iii, 273.

close and patent, ii, 346.

of election to parliament, i, 177.
of peerage, i, 400.

of error, how differs from appeal, iii, 56.
when it lies coram nobis or vobis, iii, 406, n.
from and to what courts it lies, iii, 411.
of inquiry, iii, 397.

of protection, iii, 289.

of summons, personal actions now com-
menced by, iii, 287, n.

form, teste and service of, id.

original, issued out of chancery, iii, 48.

forms of, iii, 51, 183, 273; iv, 427.

Writing, treason by, iv, 80.

stealing of writings, iv, 234.

Written instrument, contents of, how proved,
iii, 368.

Wrongs, i, 122.

how remedied, iii, 116.

classification of, as public and private, iii, 2.
private, termed civil injuries, id.

public, called crimes and misdemeanors, iv, 1.
how private wrongs redressed, iii, 2.

three several species of private wrongs, iii, 3.