INDEX

OF

THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS TREATED of

IN THIS WORK.

ABSOLUTE Government, page 26, 141.

Admiralty, jurisdiction and procedure of the Court, 114, 114 n.
Apprentices ad legem and ad barras, 192 n.

Aristotle, authority of in English Law, 5 n.

Attainder, bills of, 118 n.

Attaint of Jurors, 90, 98 n.

Bastardy, early opinions in England respecting, 148, 152, 152 n.
Boroughs, 80, 80 n.

Brute the Trojan, account of, 39, 39 n.

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Civil Law, Progress and Authority of in England, 5 n. 53 n.
123, 123 n.

indebted to the Schools of Philosophy, 9 n.

Guardianship, 162, 163 n.

Legitimation, 145, 152 n.

Theft, 172, 173 n.

Slavery, 155, 158 n.

Ingratitude, 172.

Trial, 67, 76, 76 n. 101 n.

Constitution English, History of, 39, 42 n.

Principles of, 42 n.

Coronation, the Ceremony and Oath, 126.

Courts of Justice, secret and illegal, 138, 139 n.
Counties, Division of, 78, 78 n.

Quillets of, 78 n.

Danish Laws, 53 n.

Delays in Law, 201, 202, 204 n.

Descent, ancient rule of with respect to the half-blood, 15, 15 n.
Dispensing Power, 31 n.

Divine Right, History of the Opinions concerning, 45 n.
Divinity, Study of by English Lawyers, 5 n. 85.

Duel, Trial by, 64 n.

Education, Military in England, 167, 167 n.

of Princes, 18, 18 n. 22, 23.

England, its commendation and commodities, 102, 102 n. 103 n.
137 n.

comparative state of Liberty with other countries,

125, 129, 132 n. 134.

English, Manners of in former times, 137, 137 n.

-Language, progress of, 179 n.

Escuage, 169 n.

Esquire, 104, 106 n.

Essoins, 203, 204 n.

Fortescue, extracts from his Treatise on Absolute and Limited
Monarchy, 271.

France, Government of, and condition of the inhabitants in,
129, 132 n.

Frankleyne, 104, 108 n.

French, use of the French Language in England, 177, 179 n.
Fringe, his Case, 69.

Government, origin and formation of, 35, 37, 38 n. 41, 42 n.
Guardianship, law of, 162, 163 n.

Hamlets, division of, 80, 8 n.

Henry VI. Insecurity of property in the time of, 134 n.
Hundreds, 79, 79 n. 86.

Impeachments, law of, 118 n.

Impositions, various forms of without the consent of Parlia-

ment, 29 n.

Inns and Innkeepers, law respecting in the time of Henry VI.
134, 134 n.

Inns of Court, History of, 182, 184 n.

Studies in, 182, 184 n.

their Masques and Revels, 184, 185 n.

Judges, Antiquities respecting, 184.

Oath of, 194.

Character of, 196, 198.

Jurors, Immunity of, 99 n.

Jury, Trial by, 63, 63 n. 85, 87 n. 89, 92, 93 n. 100, 109 n.
Antiquity of, 63 n.

King of England, his power, and its limits, 26, 28 n. 136, 136 n
Revenue of, 136 n.

Interference of, with the Administration of

Justice, 22, 23 n.

Coronation Oath of, 126, 126 n.

Knights, 104, 106 n.

Knights' Service, 169 n.

Latin, use of in ancient records, and legal proceedings, 180 n.

Law, Definitions of, 8, 8 n.

of God, 48 n. 111, 112 n. 113.

of Nature, 48, 48 n.

of Merchants, 116, 116 n.

Wager of, 65 n.

Law of England, sources and history of, 51, 52 n.
Law Proceedings, Language of, 177, 179 n.
Lawyers, English, character of, 186 n.

formerly Ecclesiastics, 4 n.

Studies of in former times, 4 n. 184, 185.

Lewis XI. of France, his despotic government, 129, 133 n.

Lex Regia, 26, 125, 125 n.

Liberty, favoured by the Law of England, 157.

early opinions in England respecting, 45 n.

Limited Monarchy, 26, 141, 138.

Maxims of the English Law, 20, 20 n.

Military Exercises and Education, 167, 167 n.
Military Tenures, 169 n.

Money, ancient value of, 104 n. 183 n.

Murder, remarkable case of, 203.

Parliament, Acts of, their form and language, 59 n. 180 n.

Declarations of Law by the respective houses of, 60 n.

History and Constitution of, 55, 55 n. 57 n.

Trial before Parliament and a Jury, 65 n.

Parliamentum indoctum, 187 n.

Partus sequitur ventrem, 155.

Parvyse, 196, 197 n.

Pastoral habits of the English in former times, 102, 103 n.

Philips Fabian, his writings against the Abolition of Military

Tenures, 166 n.

Prerogative, opinions respecting, 44 n.
Proclamations, law respecting, 60 n.
Protection, writ of, 205 n.

Purveyance, 134, 134 n.

Rack, 70, 71 n. 73 n.

Readings, ancient, in the Inns of Court, 184 n.

Rege Inconsulto, writ of, 205 n.

Ranks in England, 104, 106 n.

Responsibility in the Advisers of the Crown, 23 n.
Revolution, Protest of Lord Nottingham, respecting the vacancy
of the Throne by the Abdication of James II. 269.

Salt Gabelle, of in France, 130, 132 n.

Saxon, Laws, 53 n.

Scotland, feudal subjection to the English Crown, 39, 39 n.

Secret Le, in France, 74 n.

Secta, Examination of, 67 n.

Serjeants at Law, antiquities respecting, 189, 192 n.

Sheriff, office and duties of, 81, 81 n. 85.

Slavery, 155.

Socage, Guardianship in, 163 n.

Statutes, how made in England, 55, 59 n.

Language of, 180 n.

Tallages, 26 n.

Tallagio non concedendo, Statute of, 59 n.

Taxation arbitrary, history and illegality of, 26, 28 n. 136.
Temple, description of in time of Henry VI. 178, 178 n.
Theft, Progress of the Law respecting, 172, 172 n.
manifest, 172, 172 n.

Theocracy of the Jews, 27, 27 n.

Torture, Practice of, 70, 71 n. 73 n.

Trial, various forms of, 63 n.

mode of proceeding in Civil Matters, 89.