Burgage, tenure in, ii, 82; iv, 419.

Capacity of guilt, iv, 20.

to purchase or convey, ii, 290.
Capias ad audiendum judicium, iv, 375.
respondendum, iii, 281, app. 14; iv, 318,
429, app. 3.

satisfaciendum, iii, 160, 414, app. 26.
in withernam, iii, 129, 149, 413.
pro fine, iii, 398.

utlagatum, iii, 284, app. 17; iv, 320.
writ of, iii, 282, n.

Capiatur, judgment quod, iii, 398, app. 12.
Capita, distribution per, ii, 517.
succession per, ii, 218.

Capital offences in England, iv, 101, n.
punishment, iv, 9, 18, 236, *376, 413, 441.
Capite, tenants, in, ii, 60.

Caption of indictment, iv, 351, app. I.
Captives, ii, 402.

Captures at sea, ii, 401.

Caput lupinum, iv, 320.

Carnal knowledge of infants, iv, 212.

Carrier, action against, iii, 165.
Cart-bote, ii, 35.

Case, action on, iii, 52, 122; iv, 442.

reserved at nisi prius, iii, 378.

stated out of chancery, iii, 378.
Castigatory for scolds, iv, 168.
Castration, iv, 206.

Burglary, iv, 223.

as to the house, iv, 226, n.

residence, iv, 224, n.

constituent elements of, iv, 224, n.

punishment for, in England and in U.

S., iv, 228, n.

under English decisions, iv, 224, n.
without breaking, iv 226, n., 227, n.

Burial charges, ii, 508.

of a felo de se, iv, 190.

the dead, iv, 64, n.

Burning in the cheek, iv, 99, 370, 377.

hand, iv, 367, 369, 370, 372, 377, app. 4.
malicious, iv, 244, 245, 246.

of women abolished, iv, 204, n.
the king's ships, etc., iv, 102.

to death, iv, 93, 204, 216, 222, 376, 408.

Butlerage, i, 315.

By-laws, i, 475.

action on, iii, 160.

Cabinet, the constitution of, i, 230, n.

Calais, captain of, his certificate, iii, 334.
Calendar, change of, ii, 141, n.

Julian, ii, 141, n.

of prisoners, iv, 403.

Calling the plaintiff, iii, 376.
Cancelling deeds, ii, 309.
letters-patent, iii, 46, 48.
wills, ii, 502.
Canon, i, 206, n.

law, i, 14, 19, 79, 82, 83; iv, 421, 422.
V. changed by statute, ii, 220, n.
VI. changed by statute, ii, 224, n.
VII. changed by statute, ii, 234, n.
Canonical obedience, iv, 106, 112, 203.
purgation, iii, 342; iv, 368.
Canons of a church, i, 383.
of inheritance, ii, 208.
1603, i. 83.

proviso, writ of entry in, iii, 183.
Casual ejector, iii, 202, app. 7.
Catherine Howard, i, 222, n.

Cattle gates, ii, 34, n.

how to be looked after at common law,
iii, 211, n.

trespassing on lands, iii, 211, n.

malicious killing or maiming of, iv, 244,

519

iv, 352, n.

of jury, iii, 359, n.; iv, 352.

jurymen for cause, iii, 363, 366, n.

to fight, iv, 150.

4.

450, n.
custody of, i, 459, n.

duties of, i, 453.

evidence of, iv, 214.

legitimate and illegitimate, in the U. S.
i, 455, n.

Chirograph, ii, 296.

of a fine, ii, app. 15.

Chivalry, court of, iii, 68; iv, 268.
its jurisdiction, iii, 103; iv, 268.
guardian in, i, 462.

tenure in, ii, 62.

Chose in action, ii, 397, n.

arising ex delicto, ii, 397, n.
how assigned, ii, 442; iv, 441.
possession, ii, 389.

Christian courts, iii, 64.

Christianity, offences against, iv, 43.
part of the common law, i, 377, n.
law of England, iv, 59

Church, burglary in, iv, 224.

larceny in, iv, 240.

marriage in, i, 439.

none established as part of U. S. govern-

ment, i, 377, n.

offences against, iv, 50.

or churchyard, affrays in, iv, 146,
rate, i, 395; iii, 92,

repairs of, iii, 92.

wardens, i, 394.

Circuits, iii, 59; iv, 422, 424.
Circumstantial evidence, iii, 371.
Citation, iii, 100.

Cinque ports, courts of, iii, 79.

Citizens in parliament, their electors, i, 173.
City, i, 115.

Civil corporations, i, 470.

death, i, 133, n.; ii, 121.

injuries, iii, 2.

law, i, 14, 19, 79, 81, 83; iv, 121, 422.
its study forbidden, i, 19.

liberty, i, 6, 125, 251, n., 127.

list, i, 332; iv, 440.

state, i, 396.

subjection, iv, 28.

Clarendon, constitutions of, iv, 422.
Clausum fregit, iii, 209.

Clearing contempts in chancery, iii, 445.
Clementine constitutions, i, 82.

Clergy, i, 376.

and lawyers, contest between, i, 19, n.
averse to the common law, i, 19, 20.
benefit of, iv, 333, 365, 413, 429, 441.
cannot serve in parliament, i, 175, n.
plea of, iv, 333.

prayer of, iv, app. 4.
Clergymen, beating them, iv, 217.
Clerical habit and tonsure, iv, 366.
Clerico admittendo, writ de, iii, 412.
Clerk in office, i, 17.

in orders, i, 388; iv, 367.

of the market, his court, iv, 275.
peace, iv. 272.

damages, i, 450, n.

en ventre sa mere, i, 130, n.

liability for acts of counsel, iii, 29, n.
Clipping the coin, iv, 90.

453, n.

Clocks, when introduced, iii, 410.

de droit, come ceo, etc., fine sur, ii, 352.

de droit tantum, fine sur, ii, 353.
in replevin, iii, 150.

of pleas, ii, 37.

of wrongs, iii, 86.

Cognizee of a fine, ii, 351; iii, 157.

recognizance, ii, 341.

Cognizor of a fine, ii, 350; iii, 157.
recognizance, ii, 341.

Cognovit actionem, iii, 304, 397.

Coin, falsifying, etc., iv, 84, 88, 90, 98, 120.
felonies and misdemeanors relating to,
iv, 98.

importation of base, iv, 99, n.

selling base, iv, 99, n.

treasons relating to, iv, 84, 88, 90.

Coinage, instruments of, treason relative to,

iv, 90.

right of, i, 277.

Coke, Sir Edward, i, 72, 73.

Collateral consanguinity, ii, 204.

descent, ii, 220.

issue, iv, 396, app. 5.

warranty, ii, 301.

Collatio bonorum, ii, 517.

Collation to a benefice, i, 390.

Collative advowsons, ii, 22.

Collecting the goods of the deceased, ii, 510.

Colleges, i, 471.

their visitors, i, 482.

Collegia in the civil law, i, 469.

Colligendum bona defuncti, letters ad, ii, 505.
Colonial tenures in America, ii, 78, n.
Colonies, i, 108; ii, 7.

Color in pleading, iii, 309.

Combinations, iv, 159.*

Combustio domorum, iv, 374.

Commenda, i, 393; iv, 107.

Commerce, king the arbiter of, i, 273.

Commission of array, i, 411.

bankrupt, ii, 480.

lunacy, i, 305.

the peace, i, 351; iv, 270.

to examine witnesses, iii, 383, 438, 449.
take answers in equity, iii, 447.

Commitment must take place within what

time, iv, 296, n.

of bankrupt, ii, 481.
persons accused, iv, 296.

Committee of council, i, 232.
lunatic, i, 305.

under statutes Geo. III., ii, 293, n.

Common barretor, iv, 134.

because of vicinage, ii, 33, n.
bench, court of, iii, 37.

justices of, killing them, iv, 84.

carriers, how exempted from liability, ii,

451, n.

liable, when, ii, 451, 453, n.

must give bailor notice of their limita-
tion of liability, ii, 453, n.

negligence of, ii. 451, n.

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

disturbance of, iii, 237.

estate in, ii, 191, 399.

farrier, etc., action against, iii, 165.

form, proof of will in, ii, 508.

in gross, ii, 34, n.
informer, iii, 161.

jury, iii, 358.

law, i, 63, 67; iv, 411, 412.
corporation by, i, 472.
dower by, ii, 132.

guardian by, i, 461.

in the American colonies, i, 108, n.

in the United States, i, 107, n.

nature of, i, 62, n.

the origin of, i, 66, n.

with respect to the state constitutions,

i, 67, n.

prayer-book, reviling of, iv, 50.

recovery, ii, 271, n.; iii, 182, 193; iv, 429.
recoveries abolished, ii, 119, 357, n.
right of, ii, 32.

sans nombre, iii, 239.
scold, iv, 168, n.

seal, i, 475.

surcharge of, iii, 237.

tenant in, of lands, ii, 191, app. 6.

chattels personal, ii, 399.
vouchee, ii, 359, app. 18, 19.
utterer of false money, iv, 100.
ways, ii, 35.

without stint, ii, 34

Commonalty, i, 403.

Commons, house of, i, 158.

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

Communem legem, writ of entry ad, iii, 183.
Communion of goods, ii, 3.

Commutation of penance, iv, 106, 217, 276.
Compact, i, 45.

Compassing the death of the king, etc., iv,

Consideration, rule as applied to bills and
notes, ii, 446, n.

Consideratum est per curiam, iii, 390.

Consilium, or imparlance, iv, 364.

Compulsion, iv, 27.

Consistory court, iii, 64.

other prosecutions, iv, 136.

363, n.

Consort, queen, i, 219.

Compulsory purchase, i, 287 n.

Conspiracy, iv, 136.

Compurgators, iii, 342, 343; iv, 368, 414.

Computation by civil and canon law,
207, n.

ii,

Concealment from the crown, iv, 436.
of bastard's death, iv. 198, 358.
Concessit, fine sur, ii, 353.

Conclusion of deeds, ii, 304, app. I, 3, 12.
of pleas, iii, 303.

Concord in a fine, ii, 350, app 14; iii, 157.
Condition, ii, 299, app. 8, 17, n.

and covenant, words which may be either,
ii, 152, n.

breach of, ii, 281.
estate on, ii, 152.
in deed, ii, 155.

in law, ii, 154, 155.

of a bond, ii, 340, app. 13; iii, app. 20.
precedent, ii, 154, n.

subsequent, ii, 155, 156, n.

what necessary to be valid, ii, 152, n.
that most frequently arises, ii, 154, n.
Conditional fees, ii, 110.

pardon, iv, 401.

sales distinguished from mortgages, ii,
159, n.

Coneys, taking, killing, or stealing, iv, 235,

Confiscation, i, 299; iv, 377.

Confusion, property by, ii, 405.

of goods, ii, 404, 405, n.

Conge d'eslire, i, 379, 382; iv, 421.
Conjugal rights, restitution of, iii, 94.
subtraction of, iii, 94.
Conjuration, iv, 60, 436.

Conquest, Norman, i, 199; iv, 414, 415.
or acquisition, ii, 48, 242.
victory, i, 103, 107.

Consanguineus frater, ii, 232.
Consanguinity, i, 434; ii, 202.

as laid down in the text discussed, ii, 225,

action of, iii, 126.

under American decisions, iv, 136, n.

English decisions and statutes, iv, 136, n.
Constable, i, 355, 411; iv, 292.

high, i, 116.

in the U. S., i, 356, n.

lord high, i, 355; iii, 38; iv, 268.

his court, ii, 68; iv, 268.

Constitution in Insts. of Justinian, i, 74, n.
of the United States, i, 49, n.

English, i, 50, 127, 144, 154, 160, 213,
217, 234, 237; iii, 60*; iv, 439.

Construction of deeds and wills, ii, 379.

statutes, i, 87.

Constructive treason, iv, 75, 85.

Consuetudinibus et servitiis, writ de, iii, 232.
Consultation, writ of, iii, 114.

Consummate, tenant by curtesy, ii, 128.
Contempt against the King, iv, 121.
in courts of equity, iii, 443.
law, iv, 283.

of court, different kinds of, iv, 286, n.
proceedings for, in U. S., iv, 286, n.
under Am. decisions, iv, 283, n., 284, n.
Eng. decisions, iv, 284, n.

punishment for, iv, 285, n., 286, n.
different kinds of, iv, 286, n.

Contenement, iv, 379.

derivation of the word, iv, 379, n.

Contentious jurisdiction, iii, 66.

Contestatio litis, iii, 296.

Contingent legacy, ii, 513.

remainder, ii, 163 n. 169.

created with a condition precedent, ii,

169, n.

defined by Fearne, ii, 169, n.

trustees to support, ii, 171, app. 5.
uses, ii, 164, n., 334.

Continual claim, ii, 316; iii, 175.

Continuances, iii, 316 n., app. 4, II, 24, 26.
with clause of nisi prius, iii, 353.
Continuando in trespass, iii, 212.
Contract, ii, 442, n.
action on, iii, 117.
express, iii, 154.

binding on an infant, i, 463, n.

by parol, specialty and of record, distin-
guished, ii, 465, n.

for sale of goods at common law, ii,

Contractu, action ex, iii, 117.

Contribution, bills for. iii, 426, n.

Convention of estates, i, 151, 152.

Convention of parliaments, i, 152.
Conventional estates for life, ii, 120.
Conversion, iii, 152.

Conveyances, ii, 9, 293, 309; iv, 430.
take effect when, ii, 290, n.

under statute 8 & 9 Vict., ii, 339, n.

Conviction, iv, 362.

summary, iv, 280.
Convocation, i, 279, 280 n.

court of bishops in, iii, 67.

Coparceners, ii, 187.

may convey how, ii, 189, n.

right to title of honor settled by the
king, ii, 216, n.

Copper coin, counterfeiting, iv, 100.
Copy of indictment, iv, 351.

record of indictment, iii, 126.

Copyhold, ii, 95, 147; iv, 439.
cannot be devised, ii, 375, n.
estate, escheat of, ii, 246, n.
for life, ii, 97.

forfeiture of, ii, 284.

interest not assignable, ii, 290, 11.
lands, ii, 18, n.

not liable to elegit, iii, 419.
of frank tenure, ii, 100, 149.
inheritance, ii, 97.
succession, ii, 98, n.

tenure, how terminated, ii, 150, n.
origin of, ii, 96, 97, n.

statutes concerning, ii, 98, n.
turned into frank fee, ii, 368.
Copyrights, ii, 405, 407, n.

at common law, ii, 407, n.

in the U. S., ii, 407, n.

under English statutes, ii, 407, n.

abolished, iv, 402, n.

in England and the U. S., ii, 256, n.
Corse-present, ii, 425.

Corsned, trial by, iv, 345, 414.

Cosinage, writ of, iii, 186.

modern, i, 235.

Coronatore eligendo, writ de, i, 347.
exonerando, writ de, i, 348.
Coroner, i, 346; iv. 292, 413.
his court, iv, 274.

in England, i, 348, n.

the U. S., i, 348, n.

jury of, verdict of, iv, 274, n.

Corporate counties, i, 120.

name, i, 474, 475, n.

powers in the U. S., i, 475, n.

property upon dissolution, i, 484, n.

seal, modern doctrine as to, i, 475, n.

Corporation, i, 467; ii, 430.

acts, iv, 58, 439.

how at present, i, 476, n.
aggregate powers of, i, 469, n.
charter is a contract, i, 475, n.

classes of, in the U. S., i, 469, n.; 485, n.
courts of, iii, 80.

has no power except through its charter,
i, 475, n.

in summary proceedings, iv, 283, n.
its dissolution, i, 485.

duties, i, 479.

incidents and powers, i, 477.

lands if dissolved, i, 484; ii, 256.

as to a state of the U. S., iii, 400, n.

as to executors and administrators, iii,

401, n.

Council of the king, i, 227.

Counsel, iii, 26.

action against, iii, 163.

for prisoners, iv, 355, n., 356.
king's, iii, 27.

when silenced, iii, 29.

Count, i, 117, 398.

in declaration, iii, 293, 295.

Counterfeiting the king's coin, iv, 84, 88.
the king's seals, iv, 83, 89.

under Eng. decisions, iv, 84, n., 91, n.
statutes, iv, 85, n.

Counterpart, ii, 296.

Country, trial by the, iii, 349; iv, 349.
County, i, 114, n., 117; iv, 411,

court, i, 178, 343; iii, 35; iv, 411, 414, 416,

420, 422, 424, 441.

jurisdiction of, iii, 35, n.

of Middlesex, iii, 83.
palatine, i, 117; iv, 431.

Court, i, 267; iii, 23; iv, 258, 414.
baron, ii, 90; iii, 33; iv, 411.

jurisdiction of, iii, 35, n.