will, ii., 379, n.

of the crown, i., 250.

sovereign, where lodged, i., 51.
Poynings' laws, i., 102, 103.
Practice in equity, iii., 442, et seq.
injunction, iii., 442, 443.
subpœna, ib.

filing of bill, iii., 443.
six clerks' office, ib.
title of court, iii., 443, n.
accountant-general, iii., 443.
master in Chancery, ib.
clerks of records, ib.
affidavits, ib.
answer, ib.

contradictory answer, iii., 438, n.
process of contempt, iii., 443.
attachment, iii., 444.
appearance, iii., 443, 445.
commission of rebellion, iii., 444.
sergeant-at-arms, ib.
sequestration, ib.

taking bill pro confesso, ib.
process against corporations by dis-
tringas, iii., 455.

process against a peer or member of
Parliament, ib.

defendant may demur, plead, or answer,
ib.

amendment, iii., 446, 448.

swearing, &c., of answer, iii., 447.
hearing of the cause, iii., 448, 450.
order of hearing counsel, iii., 451.
examination of witnesses, iii., 449.
publication of evidence, ib.
dismissing bills for want of prosecution,
iii., 451.

subpoena to hear judgment, ib.

decree interlocutory or final, iii., 451,
453.

decree against infant, iii., 430, n.
costs, iii., 451.

feigned issue, iii., 452.

case sent to law, ib.

reference to the master, iii., 453.
master's report, ib.

final decree, effect of, ib.
rehearing, ib.

appeal, iii., 453, 454.
enforcement of decree, iii., 453.
enrollment of decree, ib.
bill of review, iii., 454.

new evidence on appeal, iii., 455.
Præcipe, ii., 350; iii., 195, 274.
tenant to, ii., 358; iii., 182.
Præmunire, iv., 103, 428.
Prætor's edicts, i., 80.

Prayer in aid, iii., 299.

Preambles of statutes, i., 60, n.
Pre-audience, iii., 28.

Prebendary, i., 383.

Precaria, ii., 52, n.

of royal family, i., 225.

letters patent of, iii., 27.

Precedents, followed in equity, iii., 432.
authority of, i., 70, n.

Precept of election to Parliament, i., 177.
Pre-contract of marriage, i., 434.
Pre-emption, i., 387; iv., 116, 424, 439.
Pregnancy, plea of, iv., 394.
trial of, iv., 395.

Premier sergeant, iii., 28.
Premises in a deed, ii., 298.
Prerogative, different kinds of, i., 239.
limited, i., 141.

review of its progress, i., 336; iv., 431,

432.

causes of its increase and decline, iv.,
433.

contempts against, iv., 122.

offenses relating to coin and treason, iv.,
98, 99, 100, n.

offenses against king's council, iv., 100.
in serving foreign states, iv., 101.
in embezzling stores, ib., and n.
desertion, iv., 102.

title to chattels by, ii., 408. See
"Crown."

Prerogative Court, ii., 509; iii., 65, 77, n.
Prescription, title by, ii., 28, 263, 264,
266, n.

abandonment of right by, ii., 264, n.
by copyholder, ii., 265, n.
none, of right arising by record, ii., 37,
n., 265.

in gross, ii., 266, n.

under 2 & 3 Will. IV., c. 71, ii., 266, n.
donative advowson by, ii., 23, 24, n.
discharge from tithes, ii., 28, et seq.
commencement of time of legal memo-
ry, ii., 31.

in respect of common, ii., 33.
to right of way, ii., 36.

for pews, ii., 429.

franchises, fisheries, &c., ii., 38, et seq.
corporation by, i., 473.

Presentation to benefices, i., 389. See
"Advowson."

Presentment of offenses, iv., 301.
President of the council, i., 230.
of corporations, i., 478.
Press, liberty of, iv., 151.
Pressing to death, iv., 328.
of seamen, i., 418.
Presumption, iii., 371.

of a grant, ii., 31, n., 36, n., 266, n.
of death, ii., 177, n.

Presumptive evidence of felony, iv., 353.
Pretended titles, selling or buying, iv.,

136.

Pretender and his sons, treasons relating
to, iv., 91.

Prevention of crimes, iv., 251.

homicide in, iv., 180.

Priest, i., 388.

table of, i., 405, n.; iii., 257.

Primer fine, ii., 350.

Primer seizin, ii., 66, 87; iv., 418.

See "Descent."

Prince of Wales, i., 94, 225.

Procuration money, iv., 157.
Prodigals, i., 305.

i., 226.

Princess of Wales, i., 94, 255.

violating her, iv., 81.

Principal and accessory, iv., 34, et seq.
principals, iv., 34, and n.
accessories, iv., 35.

what offenses admit of, 2b.
before the fact, iv., 36.
after the fact, iv., 37.

punishment of, iv., 39, and n.
challenge, iii., 363.

Prints, copyright in, ii., 407.
Prior, i., 155.

Prisage, i., 315.

Prison of the fleet, iii., 444.
breach of, iv., 130, and n.

Prisoner, insolvent, relief of, ii., 488, n.
of war, ii., 402.

Prisons, statutes for regulations of, iv., 377.
Prit, iv., 339.

Private act of Parliament, i., 86; ii., 344.
Private property, right to, i., 138.
Private persons, arrest by, iv., 293, and n.
Privately stealing from the person, iv., 242,
and n.

Privies to a fine, ii., 355.

Privilege, king fountain of, i., 272.

of Parliament, i., 164-167.

bill of, iii., 289.

from arrest, ib.

Privileged places, iv., 129.

Privilegia, i., 46.

Privilegium clericale, iv., 365.

Privy council, i., 229-232, 280, n.

judicial committee of, i., 231, n.; iii.,
67, n.

appeal to, in lunacy, iii., 427.

Privy counselor, killing or attempting to
kill, i., 232; iv., 100.

signet, forging, iv., 89.

Privy verdict, iii., 377; iv., 360.
Privy seal and signet, ii., 347.
forging, iv., 89.

Privy purse, i., 334.

Prize of enemy's goods, &c., ii., 401.
Prize court, iii., 108, n.

commission of, iii., 69.

Prizes, Admiralty Court has no jurisdiction

as to, iii., 68, n., 108, n.

Probate. See "Executors."
Procedendo, writ of, i., 353; iii., 109.
Process, iii., 279, 286.

in equity, iii., 426, 443.

Profession of arms, i., 408.
religious, i., 133.
Profits of courts, i., 289.
Progress, royal, iv., 411.
Prohibition, writ of, iii., 112.
to what courts may issue, ib.
in what cases issues, ib.

methods of proceding upon, iii., 113.
Promise, what it is, iii., 158. See "Con-

tract.

remedy for breach of, ib.

Promissory note, ii., 466. See "Bill of
Exchange.'

Promulgation of laws, i., 6, n., 45, 185, n.
Proof, when positive, required, iii., 370.
Proofs, iii., 368.

in ecclesiastical court, iii., 100.
Property, right to, in general, i., 138; ii.,
1, 2, 8, n., 12, 197.

origin of rights of alienation and de-
scent, ii., 9.

some things still in common, ii., 14.
title by occupancy, ii., 400.

division according to the nature of the
subject and the estate therein, ii., 16,

note.

realty and personalty, ii., 16.

right of presentation to a church, when
a distinct chattel, ii., 23, n.

in water, ii., 18.

in things personal, ii., 389, et seq.
in animals, ii., 389, 402.

qualified, limited, or special, ii., 391,
396.

in personalty, as to the time of enjoy-
ment and number of owners, ii., 398.
See "Personalty."

injuries to, iii., 144, 167.

crimes against, iv., 230, et seq.
tax, i., 314, n.

Prophecies, pretended, iv., 149.

Proprietary governments in America, i.,

109.

Proprietate probanda, writ de, iii., 148.
Prorogation of Parliament, i., 187.
Prosecution by the king, i., 268.
expenses of, iv., 362.

of offenders, different modes of, iv.,
malicious, iii., 126.

Prostitutes, vagrants, iv., 170, n.
Protection of children, i., 450.

of embassadors, i., 254.
writ of, iii., 289.

tuted, iii., 287, n.

Prochein amy, i., 464.

of settlement, ii., 364, n.

Protest of bill of exchange, ii., 469.

iv., 431.

of estrays, i., 298.

301.

Protestant succession, i., 216, 217; iv., 90.

Protestation, iii., 311.

abolished, iii., 312, n.

writ of, iii., 283.

in outlawry, iv., 319.

under the riot act, iv., 143.

Province, i., 111.

Provincial constitutions, i., 82.

Provincial (continued).

governments in America, i., 109.
Provisions, papal, i., 60; iv., 107.
selling unwholesome, iv., 162.
forestalling, &c., iv., 158.
Proviso, trial by, iii., 356.

Provisors, statutes against, iv., 110, &c.
Proxies in the House of Lords, i., 168.
Puberty, age of, iv., 22.

Public, act of Parliament, i., 85.
debts, i., 328-331.

companies, stock in, may be charged
with a judgment debt, iii., 419, n.
policy, no copyright in immoral work,
ii., 407, n.

verdict, iii., 377; iv., 360.
Publication of depositions, iii., 450.
Pueritia, iv., 22.

Puis darrein continuance, plea of, iii., 315.
must be accompanied by affidavit that
matter arose within eight days before
pleading, iii., 317, n.

Puisnè barons of Exchequer, iii., 44.
judges, iii., 40, 41.

Pulling down churches, houses, &c., iv.,

143.

Pulsation, iii., 120.

Punishments, nature of, i., 133; iv., 7.
capital, iv., 9, 18, 236.
certainty of, iv., 377.
end of, iv., 11, 252.
mode of inflicting, iv., 258.
measure of, iv., 12.

power of punishing, iv., 7.
severity of, iii., 404; iv., 16.
Pur autre vie. See "Estate."
Purchase, i., 215.

distinguished from escheat and descent,
ii., 201, 241, 243, 245, n.
rule in Shelley's case, ii., 242.
five modes of taking by, ii., 244.
when heir takes by, ii., 240, n.
of writs, iii., 273, 274.
Purgatio vulgaris, iv., 342.
Purgation, canonical, iii., 342; iv., 368.

oath of, iii., 100, 447.
Purlieu, ii., 419, n.

Purprestler, iv., 167.

Pursuit of remedies, iii., 270.

Purveyance, i., 287; iv., 116, 424, 439.
Putting in fear, iv., 242.

her attorney and solicitor, i., 219; iii., 28.
her revenue, i., 219.

regnant's husband, i., 222.

consort, compassing or imagining her
death, iv., 76.

violating her, iv., 81.

offenses against the person of, not trea-
sonable, iv., 102, n.

Question or torture, iv., 325.

Qui tam actions, iii., 160; iv., 307.
Quia dominus remisit curiam, iii., 195.
Quia emptores, statute of, ii., 91, 102, iv.,
426.

Quick with child, plea of, iv., 395.
Quinto exactus, iii., 283; iv., 319.
Quit-rents, ii., 42.

Quod ei deforceat, writ of, for whom it
lies, iii., 192.

Quod nocumentum amoveatur, iii., 413.
Quod permittat, iii., 240.

Quod permittat prosternere, iii., 221.
abolished, ib.

Quo minus, writ of, not now used, iii., 45, n.
writ of, in Exchequer, iii., 286.

Quo warranto, writ of, when it lies, iii.,
262, and n.

nature of, iii., 262.

information in the nature of, i., 485;
iii., 262; iv., 311, 441.

information in the nature of, now ap-
plied to the decision of corporation
disputes, iii., 263.

within what time to be brought, iii., 264.
Quorum, i., 351.

Quorum clause in commission

165.

freehold in futuro, ib.

what a sufficient particular estate, ii.,

166.

failure of particular estate, ii., 167.
vested or contingent, ii., 168, 169.
possibility upon a possibility, ii., 169.
conveyance of contingent estates, ii.,
169, n., 290, n., 354, n.

destruction of, ii., 117, 119, 171, 364, n.
trustees to preserve contingent remain-
ders, ii., 171.

executory devises, ii., 172, et seq.
rule in Shelley's case, ii., 172, n.
rule against perpetuities, ii., 174.
distinguished from conditional limita-
tions, ii., 175, n.

distinguished from reversions, ii., 176.
cross, implication of, ii., 381.
in personalty, ii., 398.
formedon in, iii., 192.
Remainder-man might come in and defend
the freehold if tenant made default,
iii., 204.

may cause tenant for life to be pro-
duced, iii., 211.

Remedial part of laws, i., 55; iii., 23.

statute, i., 86, 88.

Remitter, iii., 189.
what it is, iii., 19.
reason of, iii., 20.

to owner of stolen goods, ii., 450.
Remoteness, rule against, ii., 174.
Removal, fraudulent, iii., 11.
of poor, i., 364.

Renewals of copyholds for lives, ii., 98.
Rent, origin of, ii., 41, 57, 86, 299.

rent service, rent charge, and rent seck,
ii., 41, et seq.

rent of assize, quick-rents, rack-rents,
and fee-farm rents, ii., 42.
distinguished from annuity, ii., 41.
reservation of, ii., 297.

incident to the reversion, ii., 176.
rent-service may be reserved without
deed, ii., 41, n.

may issue out of tithes, ii., 42, n.
none out of personalty, ib.

seizin of rent, and remedy by assize, ib.
when and where payable, ii., 43; iii.,
10, n.

appointment of, ii., 43, n., 124.
extinguishment of, ii., 43.

limitation of right to recover arrears, ii.,
266, n.

remedy for, iii., 6, 206, 231; iv., 441.
action of debt for, iii., 231.
assize of mort d'ancestor for, ib.
to be paid by sheriff, iii., 417.

Repleader, when it will be awarded, iii.,
394, and n.

Replevin, iii., 13, 170.

how made, iii., 147.

action of, when it may be brought, iii.,

145.

proceeding in action of, iii., 149.
execution in, iii., 413.
bond, iii., 147.
Replication, iii., 309.
in equity, iii., 448.

in criminal cases, iv., 339.
Reports of adjudged cases, i., 71.
by master, iii., 453.

Representation not delegation, i., 159.
in descent of the crown, i., 194, 201.
distinguished from warranty, ii., 460, n.
Reprieve, several kinds of, iv., 394.
Reprisals on foreigners, i., 258.
of goods, iii., 4.

Reputation, protection of, i., 134; iii., 123.
Reputed ownership by bankrupt, ii., 488,

note.

thieves, vagrants, when, iv., 170, n.
Requests, Court of, i., 230; iii., 51, 81.
Rere fiefs, ii., 57.

Rescous, what, and how remedied, iii.,
146.

Rescue, when it may be made, iii., 12,
170; iv., 125, 131.
Reservations, ii., 299.
Residence of spiritual persons, i., 391, 392.
Resignation, i., 382, 393.

legality of engagements to resign a liv-
ing, ii., 280.

Resistance, right of, i., 251; iv., 436, 440.
must not exceed bounds of mere de-
fense and prevention, iii., 4, and n.
Respite of jury, iii., 354.
Respondentia, ii., 458, 461.
Respondeat ouster, judgment of, iii., 303,
396; iv., 338.

Responsa prudentum, i., 80.

Restitution of temporalities, i., 380; iv.,

421.

in blood, &c., iv., 402.

of conjugal rights, iii., 94.
of stolen goods, iv., 362.
writ of, iv., 188, 363.

Restoration of, A.D. 1660, i., 210; iv., 438.
Restraining statute, i., 87; ii., 320; iv.,
432.

Resulting use on a conveyance, ii., 296,
n., 335; iv., 330.
Retainer of debts, ii., 511; iii., 18.

executor of his own wrong can not re-
tain, iii., 19.

of servant, iii., 142.
Retaliation, law of, iv., 12.
Retorno habendo, plegii de, iii., 147.
writ de, iii., 150, 413.
Retraxit, iii., 295, 395.
Return days, iii., 277.

false or double, i., 180; iii., 111, 372.
irreplevisable, writ of, iii., 150.