iii, 399, n.

of freehold, iii, 167.
indictment, iv, 334.
nuisance, iii, 5.

plea in, iii, 301; iv, 334.

writ, count, or suit, iii, 301.

what may be pleaded in, iii, 302, n.
Abbey-lands, ii, 32; iv, 116.

molesting their possessors, iv, 116.

Abbots, i, 155.

Abbreviations, iii, 323.
Abdication, i, 212; iv, 78.

Abduction of child, iii, 140.

of heiress, iv, 208.
ward, iii, 141.
wife, iii, 139.
women, i, 443.

or kidnapping, iv, 219.

punishment for, iv, 208, n.

under Eng. statutes, iv, 210, n.

when parent can recover damages for, iii,

141, n.

Abearance, good security for, iv, 251, 256.
Abeyance, ii, 107.

of freehold estates, ii, 107, n.

Abigei, iv, 239.

Abjuration, oath of, i, 368.

of the realm, iv, 56, 124, 332, 377.
Absolute power of the crown, i, 250.
property, ii, 389.

rights under the U. S. laws, i, 125, n.
and duties, i, 123.

Abstract of a fine, ii, 351, app. 15.
Accedas ad curiam, iii, 34.

Acceptance of bills, ii, 469, n. 469.
Accessaries, iv, 35, 37, n.

after the fact, iv, 37, 38, n., 39, n.
before the fact, iv, 36, 39. n.

I could not be tried until after the principal,
why, iv, 40, n.

may be tried now without the principal,
iv, 324, n.

when to be tried, iv, 323.
Accession, property by, ii, 404.

Accidents, where relieved against, iii, 431.
Accomplices, discovery of, iv, 330, 331.
testimony of, iv, 331, n.

Accord, iii, 15.

and satisfaction, consideration necessary
for, iii, 16, n.

Account, cognizable in equity, iii, 426, n., 437.
writ of, iii, 437.

Account-books, when evidence, iii, 368.

Accretion, ii, 262, n.
Accused, protection to, i, 133, п.
Ac etiam, iii, 288, app. 18.
Act of bankruptcy, ii, 477.
grace, how passed, i, 184.
when pleaded, iv, 396.
parliament, i, 85.

disobedience to, iv, 122.
how made, i, 181.

its ancient form, i, 182.
power, i, 186.

private, i, 86; ii, 344.

public, i, 85.

ii, 171, n.

Additions, i, 407; iii, 302; iv, 306, 334.
Adherence to the king's enemies, iv, 82.
Adjoining county, trial in, iii, 383.
Adjournment of congress, i, 186, n.
parliament, i, 186, n.

Admeasurement of dower, ii, 136; iii, 183.
pasture, iii, 238.
Administration, ii, 489.

cum testamento annexo, ii, 504.
de bonis non, ii, 506.
durante absentia, ii, 503.
durante minore aetate, ii, 503.
limited, or special, ii, 506.
Administrator, ii, 504; iv, 428.
Admiralty causes, iii, 106.
court of, iii, 69; iv, 268.

jurisdiction, i, 264, n.; ii, 401, n.; iii, 68,
106, n.

jurisdiction of English courts, iii, 108, n.
of the U. S. courts, i, 110, n.; iii, 107, n.

Admission of a clerk, i, 390.
Admissions in evidence, iii, 368, n.
Admittance to copyholds, ii, 370.

under English decisions, ii, 370–372, n.
Admittendum clericum, writ ad, iii, 250.
Ad quod damnum, writ of, ii, 271.
Advertising for stolen goods, iv, 134.
Adultery, i, 441; iii, 139; iv, 65, 191.

what constitutes in England and in the
U. S., iii, 140, n.

Advancements, ii, 519, n.

Adverse possession, ii, 194, 196, 198, n.; iii,
189, n.

Advice to lawyers, i, 37, n.
Advocate, iii, 26.

Advocatus fisci, iii, 27.

Advowson, ii, 21; iv, 426.

appendant and in gross, ii, 22, n.
cannot exist in the U. S., ii, 24, n.
how passed, in England, ii, 22, n.
Aequitas sequitur legem, ii, 330; iii, 441.
Affectum, challenge propter, iii, 363; iv, 352.
Affeerors of amercements, iv, 379.
Affidavit, in general, iii, 304.
Affinity, i, 434, 435, n.

Affirmance of judgments, iii, 411.
Affrays, iv, 145, n.

Age, action suspended by, iii, 300.

of consent to marriage, i. 436.

persons, how reckoned, i, 463; iv, 22.

Agency, general and special, i, 430, n.; iii,

158, n.

Agriculture, its original, 7.

Aid-prayer, iii, 300.

Aiding in any theft is felony, iv, 132, n.

Aids, feodal, ii, 63, 86; iv, 418, 419.

parliamentary, i, 308.

Air, right to, ii, 14.

Albinatus jus, i, 372, 373.
Alderman, i, 116.

Alderney, island of, i, 106.

Alehouses, iv, 64, 167.

Alfred, his dome-book, i, 64; iv, 411.

Alias writ, iii, 283, app. 15; iv, 319.
Alienation, ii, 287.

fine for, ii, 71; iv, 113.

forfeiture by, ii, 268.

of affections of husband or wife, action
for, iii, 142, n.

Alien priories, i, 386; iv, 113.
Aliens, i, 366, 371; ii, 249, 274, 293; iv, III.
duty of, i, 316, 372, 374.

in England and in the U. S., i, 365, 366,
372, n.

right to hold property, i, 372, 373, n.
in U. S. in time of war, i, 260, n.
may hold land in the U. S., iii, 259, n.
power of, as to holding and alienating land,

ii, 293, n.

rights of, under U. S. supreme court deci-
sions, ii, 249, n.

under English statutes, ii. 250, n.

Aliens, treaties of 1794 and 1850, ii, 249, n.
Alimony, i, 441; iii, 94.

definition of, iii, 94, n.
in the U. S., i, 441, n.
Allegation, iii, 100.
Allegiance, i, 366; iv, 74.
local, i, 370.
natural, i, 369.

oath of, i, 367; iv, 274.
refusing it, iv, 116.
withdrawing from, iv, 87.
to de facto officers, iv, 77, n.
Allodial property, ii, 47,
60.
Allodium, ii, 105, 46, n.
Allowance of franchise, iii, 263.
of pardons, iv, 401, 402.
writs of error, iv, 392.
to bankrupts, ii, 483.
Alluvion, ii, 261, 262, n.
in the U. S., ii, 262, n.
Almanac, its authority, iii, 333.
Alteration of deeds, ii, 308, n.
Ambassadors and consuls, protection afforded
them, i, 257, n.

and ministers, protection afforded them in
U. S., i, 257, n.

their servants, iv, 70, n.

Amended bill in equity, iii, 448.
Amendments at law, iii, 407; iv, 439.

of the record, iii, 408, n.

to constitutions in the United States, i,

162, n.

judgments in criminal trials, iv, 376, n.
pleadings under act, 1852, in England,
iii, 373, n.

Amercement, ii, app. 19, iii, 376, app. 5, 6.
action for, iii, 159.

American colonies, i, 108.
Ancestors, ii, 209.

how numerous, ii, 203.

what necessary for inheritance, ii, 220, n.
Ancestral actions, iii, 186.

Ancient demesne, i, 286; ii, 99.

tenants in, ii, 101, n.

lights, doctrine of, in England, ii, 402, n.

Animals, larceny of, iv, 235.

property in, ii, 5.

Animus furandi, iv, 230, 232.

revertendi, ii, 392.

Anne Boleyn, i, 222, n.

Annual parliaments, i, 153.

Annuities, ii, 40.

are real estate, how far, ii, 40, n.
for lives, ii, 461.

not within the statute de donis, ii, 113, n.
Annulum et baculum, investiture per, i, 378.
Annus luctus, i, 456.

Answer in chancery, iii, 446.
upon oath, iii, 100.
Apostacy, iv, 43.

Apparel, excess in, iv, 171.
Apparent, heir, ii, 208.

right of possession, ii, 196.

Appeal as a criminal action, iv, 317, n.
by approvers, iv, 330.

wife or child, iii, 143, n.

how differing from writ of error, iii, 455.
of arson, iv, 314.

death, iv, 314, 424.

Appointment to charitable uses, ii, 376.

Appraisement, commission of, iii, 262.

Apprentice-fee, duty on, i, 324.

Apprentices, i, 426, 427; iv, 160.

earnings of, i, 429, n.

rights of, i, 429, n.

Arrest, may be made by whom, iii, 288, n.;
iv. 290, n., 291, n., 292, n.

of a defendant made under what writs in
England, iii, 286, n.

judgment, iii, 393, app. 11, iii, 395; n.
iv. 375.

when a party may move for, iii, 393, n.
of persons, iii, 288; iv, 289.

seamen and soldiers, i, 421.

privilege from, iii, 289, n.

under defective warrants, iv, 292, n.

what acts may be done to enforce, iii,

288, n.

without a warrant, may be made when,
iv, 292, n., 293, n.

Arson, iv, 220.

appeal of, iv, 314.

punishments for, in England and the U. S.,
iv, 222, n.

under English statutes, iv, 221, n.
American decisions, iv, 221, n.

of the navy, i, 420.

Union between England and Scotland,

i, 97, n.

war, i, 415.

Artificers, i, 407.

residing abroad, iv, 160.

transporting them, iv, 160.

As, Roman divisions of, ii, 462.

Ascendants excluded from inheriting, ii, 210.
Asportation, iv, 231.

Assault, iii, 120; iv, 145, 216.
action for, iii, 120, n.

and battery, force which may be used to
repel, iii, 4, n.

who may repel in behalf of another, iii,
3, n.

costs in action for, iii, 120; iv, 145, 216.
what constitues, iii, 120, n., 121, n.
Assembly of estates, i, 147.

riotous, iv, 146.

unlawful, what is, iv, 146, n.

Assensu patris, dower, ex, ii, 132.

Assent, as manifested by formal act, ii, 448,

Association, writ of, iii, 59.

Assumpsit, action of, iii, 158, n.

Averium, ii, 424.

Averment, iii, 309, 313; iv, 340.
Avowry, iii, 150.

Avulsion, ii, 262, n.

Award, iii, 16.

by arbitrators, iii, 16, n.

express, iii, 158.

implied, iii, 159.

Bachelor, knight, i, 404.

in England and the U. S., ii, 251, n.
Attaint, grand jury in, iii, 351, 404.
writ of, iii, 402; iv, 361.

Attainted persons, ii, 290; iv, 380.
Attempt to drown or suffocate, punishment
for, iv, 199, n.

to kill or wound, punishment for iv,
194, n.

to maim, how punished, iv, 194, n.

to murder, iv, 194, n.

to rob, iv, 242.

to steal fish, iv, 236.

Attestation of deeds, ii, 307, app. I, 3, 12,

13.

to wills, ii, 376, 377, n.

Attorney, action against, iii, 165.

and client in equity, iii, 426, n.
in the U. S., iii, 26, n.

under Roman law, iii, 26, n.
at law, iii, 25.

different kinds of, iii, 25, n., 165, n.
how appointed originally, iii, 26, n.
warrant of, to confess judgment, iii, 397.
Attorney-General, iii, 27.

information by, iii, 261, 427; iv, 308.
Attornment, ii, 72, 288, 290.

under English decisions, ii, 290, n.
Aubaine, droit de, i, 372, 373.

Audita querela, under English and Ameri-

can decisions, iii, 406, n.

writ of, iii, 405.

Auditors in account, iii, 164.

Augmentation of vicarages and curacies, i
388.

Aula regia, or regis, iii, 38; iv, 416, 422.
Aulnager, i, 275.

Aurum reginæ, i, 221.

Auter droit, ii, 177.

Auterfoits acquit, iv, 335.

attaint, iv, 336.

Bail above, iii, 290.

below, iii, 291.

common, iii, 287.
excepting to, iii, 291.

excessive, i, 135; iv, 297.
failure to give, iv, 300, n.

granted when, in England, and in the
United States, iv, 298, n.

in criminal cases, iv, 297.
in error, iii, 410.

justifying or perfecting, iii, 291, n.
may render principal when, iii, 292, n.
refusing, iv, 297.

special, iii, 287, app. 19.

in England, iii, 291, n.
taking insufficient, iv, 297.
to the action, iii, 290.

sheriffs, iii, 290.

under English decisions, iii, 290, n.
Bailable or not, who, iv, 297, 298, 299.
Bail-bond, iii, 290, app. 19.

Bailee, gratuitous, ii, 453, n.

how exempted from liability, ii, 452,
453, n.

power to affect liability by express con-
tract, ii, 453, n.

Bailiffs, i, 345, 427.

of hundreds, i, 116, 345.
Bailiwick, i, 344, ii, 38.
Bailment, ii, 396, 451.

by an officer of court, ii, 396, n.
care required of, ii, 451, n.
definition of, ii, 252, n.

what constitutes, ii, 451, n.
Bail-piece, iii, 291, app. 20.
Ballot act, i, 177, n.

for jurors, iii, 358.
Balnearii, iv, 239.

Banishment, i, 137; iv, 377, 401.
Bank, i, 328.

misbehavior of its officers, iv, 231.
Bankrupt, ii, 471; iv, 431, 436.

consolidation act, 1849, in England, ii,

286, n.

Baronet, i, 403.

Baronies of bishops, i, 156.
Barratry, iv, 134.

Barristers, i, 23; iii, 26.

Barter or exchange, analagous to sale, ii,

447, n.

Base fees, ii, 109.

services, ii, 61.

tenants, ii, 148.

Bastard, i, 454.

administration to, ii, 505.

concealment of its death, iv, 198, 358.
eignè, ii, 248, n.

incapacity of, i, 458.

in Scotland, ii, 248, n.

U. S. presumption against, i, 457, n.
inherits in U. S., when, ii, 248, n.
maintenance of, i, 457.

mother of, iv, 66, n.

ownership of real estate, by, i, 459, n.
punishment for bearing, iv, 65.

support of, in the U. S., i, 458, n.

Bill of exchange, Middlesex, iii, 285, App. 18.

patents, etc., ii, 346.

peace in equity, iii, 426, n.
privilege, iii, 289.

quia timet, iii, 426, n.
review, iii, 454, n.
rights, i, 128; iv, 440.
or note, forging, iv, 247, 249.
stealing, iv, 234.

to discover evidence, iii, 426, n.
marshal securities, iii, 426, n.

perpetuate testimony in equity, iii,
426, n.

secure property in litigation, iii, 426, n.
Billa vera, iv, 306.

Bishops, i, 155, 377, 393. n., 394, 401.
and bishoprics, creation of, i, 114, n.
certificate of, iii, 335.

not electing or consecrating, iv, 115.
powers of, i, 381, n.

right of, to try or be tried as a peer, i,
401; iv, 264, 265.

what constitutes, iii, 120, 121, n.

415, 430.

Bissextile year, ii, 140.

Black Act, iii, 161; iv, 144, 207, 235, 245.

lead, stealing of, iv, 234.

maile, ii, 43; iv, 244.

Blanch rent, ii, 43.

Blanch-holding, ii, 43.

Blasphemy, iv, 59.

422, 424.

last instance of, iv, 348, n.

Bawdy-houses, iv, 29, 64, 167, n.

Beaconage, suit for, iii, 108.

Beacons, i, 264.

Beast-gate, ii, 34, n.

Bees, ii, 393, n.

Behavior, good security for, iv, 251, 256, 402.
Beheading, iv, 92, 376.
Benefice, iv, 107, n.

Benefit of clergy, iv. 333, 365, 413, 429, 441.
abolished, iv, 375, n.

in America, iv, 372, n.
praying for, iv, 370, n.
Benevolence.compulsive, i, 140; iv, 436.

Bequest by testator to a debtor, ii, 512, n.
Berwick, i, 99.

part of England, i, 99.

Besayle, writ of, iii, 186.

inheritable, ii, 246.

of the first purchaser, ii, 220.
restitution in, iv, 402.
royal, i, 225.

whole and half, ii, 227.
Body corporate, i, 467.
how protected, i, 134.
politic, i, 467.

Boiling to death, iv, 196.

Bona notabilia, ii, 509; iii, 65, n.
vacantia, i, 299.

Bond, ii, 340, app. 13; iii, app. 19; iv. 442.
binds whom, ii, 340, n.

in equity, iii, 426, n.

of arbitration, iii, 16.

tenants, ii, 148.

penalty of, under statutes in England,

iii, 398, n.

what is, ii, 340, n.

Bigamy, iv, 163.

in the U. S., iv, 163, n.

under English decisions, iv, 164, n.

statutes, iv, 164, n.

Bill and note payable to bearer, ii, 469, n.

for compelling the delivery of deeds, iii,

426, n.

contribution, iii, 426, n.

in equity, iii, 442.

parliament, i, 181.

how passed, i, 181.

of exceptions, iii, 372.

in the U. S. Courts, iii, 372, n.

of exchange, ii, 466.

indictment, iv, 302.

interpleader in equity, iii, 426, n.

lading, effect of endorsement, ii, 449, n.