Poisoning, of woman quick with child, iv,

198.

attempts at, iv, 196, n.

Police, offences against, iv, 162.

Policies of insurance, iv, 441.

(See "Insurance.")

court of, iii, 74.

Political liberty, i, 125.
rights, i, 129, 145.
Polling at elections, i, 178.

Polls, challenge to, iii, 361; iv, 352.
Polygamy, i, 436; iv, 163.
Pone, iii, 34, 37, 195, 280.
Poor, i, 359.

laws, history of, i, 359–362; iv, 432.
settlements, i, 362.

returning to parish, &c., vagrants, iv,
170, n.

overseers of, i, 359-361.

Pope, his authority how abolished, iv, 104,
421, 428, 430.

encroachments of, iv, 104, 419, 424, 425.
jurisdiction, defending, iv, 87, 115.
reconciliation to, iv, 87.

Popery, iv, 55.

(See "Roman Catholics.")

Popish books, importing or selling, iv, 115.
priests, iv, 57, 87, 115.

recusants, iv, 56, 124.

seminaries, education in, i, 451; iv, 55, 115.
maintaining, iv, 115.

Popular action, ii, 437; iii, 160.

Portland, Isle of, i, 105.

Port-reeve, iv, 413

Ports and havens, i, 264.

injuries to, iv, 144.

Positive proof, iii, 371.
Posse comitatus, i, 343.

neglecting to join, iv, 122.

Possessio fratris, ii, 227.

Possession, estate in, ii, 163, 398.

title by, ii, 195.

right of, ii, 196; iii, 177, 180.
adverse, ii, 266, n.

when must be surrendered before adverse
claim can be set up, ii, 144, n.

of land, insufficient to maintain trespass
against stranger, ifi, 210, n.

of land under contract of sale, ii, 140, n.,
146, n.

writ of, iii, 202, 412.

Poundage, i, 316; iv, 437.
Powdike, cutting; iv, 244.

Power of appointment, how executed by
will, ii, 379, n.

of the crown, i, 250.

Sovereign, where lodged, i, 51.
in America, i, 49, n., 52, n.
Poyning's laws, i, 102, 103.
Practice in equity, iii, 442, et seq.
injunction, iii, 442, 443.

filing bill and subpœna, iii, 443.
officers of court, iii, 443.
affidavits, iii, 443.

answer, iii, 443, 447.

process of contempt, iii, 443, 444.
appearance, iii, 443, 445.

commission of rebellion, iii, 444.
sequestration, ib.

taking bill pro confesso, ib.

process against corporation by distringas,
iii, 455.

process against peer or member of par-
liament, ib.

defendant's pleading, ib.

amendments, iii, 446, 488.

hearing of cause, iii, 488, 450, 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.

reference to master, iii, 453.

master's report, ib.

final decree, ib.

rehearing, ib.

appeal, iii, 453, 454.

enforcement of decree, iii, 453.
enrolment 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.

Preamble of statute, i, 60, n.
Pre-audience, iii, 28.

179.

limitation to, iii, 188.

Possibility upon a possibility, ii, 169.

not assignable, ii, 290.

Postea, iii, 386.

Post-fine, ii, 350.

Post, writ of entry in, iii, 182.

Post-disseisin, writ of, iii, 188.

Postman in exchequer, iii, 28.
Post-office duties, &c., i, 322-324.
embezzlement by servants in, iv, 231.
misbehaviour of officers of, iv, 234.
examining correspondence in, i, 322, n.
Posthumous children, i, 130; ii, 160.
Pound, iii, 12.

breach, what, and remedies for, iii, 146.
troy, of gold and silver, i, 276, n.

Precedence, how settled, i, 272; 111, 105.
of royal family, i, 225.

table of, i, 405, n.; iii, 27.

letters patent of, iii, 28.

among bishops, i, 380, n.

Precedents, authority of, i, 70, n.

in equity, iii, 432.

Precept of election to parliament, i, 177.
Pre-contract of marriage, i, 434.
Pre-emption, i, 287; iv, 116, 424, 439.
Pregnancy, plea of, iv, 394.
trial of, i, 456; iv, 395.
Premier sergeant, iii, 27.
Premises in a deed, ii, 298.
Prerogative, different kinds of, 1, 239.
limited, i, 141.

review of its progress, i, 336; iv, 431,432.

(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.
none, of right arising by record, ii, 265.
in gross, ii, 266, n.

donative advowson by, ii, 23.
discharge from tithes, ii, 28 et seq.
commencement of time of legal memory,
ii, 31.

in respect of common, ii, 38; iii, 238.
to right of way, ii, 36.
for pews, ii, 429.

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

not applicable to highways, ii, 35, n.
Presentation to benefice, i, 389.
(See "Advowson.")

Presentment of offences, iv, 301.
President of the council, i, 230.
of corporations, i, 478.
of the United States, i, 214, n.
oath of office of, i, 235, n.
cabinet of, i, 232, n.
powers and duties of, i, 233, n.
impeachment of, i, 246, n.
approval of bills by, i, 185, n.
Press, liberty of, iv, 151.
Pressing to death, iv, 828.

of seamen, i, 419.

Presumption, iii, 371.

of a grant, ii, 31, n., 35, n., 266, n.
of corporate grant, i, 473.

of death, ii, 177, n.

Presumptive evidence of felony, iv, 858.
heir, ii, 208.

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.

Priority of debts, ii, 511.
Priors, i, 155.

Prisage, i, 314.

Prison of the Fleet, iii, 444.
breach of, iv, 130.

Prisoner, insolvent, relief of, ii, 488.
of war, ii, 402; iii, 132, n.
Prisons, regulation of, iv, 377.
Prit, iv, 339.

Private act of parliament, i, 86; ii, 344.
nuisance, iii, 216.

property, rights to, i, 138.
persons, arrest by, iv, 293.
ways, ii, 35 and n.

(See "Ways.")

Privateering, i, 259, n.

Privately stealing from the person, iv, 242.
Privies to a fine, ii, 355.

bound by estoppel.

(See "Estoppel.")

Privilege, king, the fountain of, i, 272.
of parliament, i, 164–167.
bill of, iii, 289.
from arrest, ib.

of ambassadors, i, 254.
Privileged places, iv, 129.
Privilegia, 1, 46.

Privilegium clericale, iv, 365.

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

judicial committee of, i, 231, n., 280, n;
iii, 69, n.

appeal to, in lunacy, iii, 427.

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

Privy purse, i, 334.

Privy seal and signet, ii, 347.
forging, iv, 89.

Privy verdict, iii, 377; iv, 360.

Prize, of enemy's goods, &c., i, 259; ii, 401.
court, iii, 70, n.

commission of, iii, 69.

admiralty court no jurisdiction as to, iii,
70, n.

Probable cause, iii, 126, n.
Probate, ii, 494, 507; iii, 99.
(See "Wills.")

court of, iii, 67, n., 95, n.

Procedendo, writ of, i, 353; iii, 109.
Process, iii, 279, 286.

in equity, iii, 426, 443.

former abolished and new writs substitu-
ted, iii, 287, n.
Prochein ami, i, 464.

Proclamation by the king, i, 270, 271; iv,

431.

Progress of the laws, iv, 407.
Prohibition, writ of, iii, 112.

to what courts may issue, ib.
in what cases, ib.

procedure upon, iii, 113.
Promise, what it is, iii, 158.
(See "Contract.")

remedy for breach of, ib.

Promissory note, ii, 467.

(See "Bill of Exchange.")

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

in ecclesiastical courts, iii, 100.
Proper feuds, ii, 58.

Property, rights to, in general, i, 122, n., i,
138; ii, 8, n., 12, 197.

origin of rights of alienation and descent,
ii, 9.

some things still in common, ii, 14.

title by occupancy, ii, 400.

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

realty and personalty, ii, 16.

right of presentation to church, ii, 23.
in waters, 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 time of enjoyment 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, 1, 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, 801.
malicious, iii, 126.

Prostitutes, vagrants, iv, 170.

Protection of children, i, 450.

of ambassadors, i, 254.

writ of, iii, 289.

Protector or regent, i, 248.

Protest of bill of exchange, ii, 467, n., 469.

of peers, i, 168.

Protestant dissenters, iv, 53.

succession, i, 216, 217; iv, 90.
treason against, iv, 90.
Protestation, iii, 311.

Province, i, 111.

Provincial constitutions, i, 82.
governments in America, i, 109.
Provisions, papal, i, 60; iv, 107.
selling unwholesome, iv, 162.
forestalling, &c., iv, 158.
warranty in sale of, ii, 451, n.
Proviso, trial by, iii, 357.

Provisors, statutes against, iv, 100 et seq.

Proxies in 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 judgment debt, iii, 419, n.

Public policy, excludes copyright in im-
moral work, iii, 407, n.

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

Puis darrein continuance, plea of, iii, 315,
817.

Puisne barons of exchequer, iii, 44.
judges, iii, 40, 41.

Pulling down churches, houses, &c., iv, 143.
Pulsation, iii, 120.

Punishment, nature of, i, 133; iv, 7.

capital, iv, 9, 18, 236.
certainty of, iv, 379.

end and purpose of, iv, 11, 252.
mode of inflicting, iv, 258.
measure of, iv, 12.

power of punishment, iv, 7.
severity of, iii, 404; iv, 16.
(See "Correction.")

Pur auter vie, estate in.

(See "Estate.")

Purchase, i, 215.

distinguished from escheat and descent,
ii, 201, 241, 243, 245.

rule in Shelley's Case, ii, 242 and n.
modes of taking by, ii, 244.
heir taking 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.
Purpresture, iv, 167.

Pursuit of remedies, iii, 270.

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

Quick with child, plea of, iv, 395.

Quinto exactus, iii, 283; iv, 319.

Quit rents, ii, 42.

Quo minus, writ of, iii, 45, n.

in exchequer, iii, 286.

Quod ei deforciat, writ of, iii, 193.

Quod nocumentum amoveatur, iii, 413.

Quod permittat, iii, 240.

Quod permittat prosternere, iii, 221.
Quorum, i, 351.

clause in commissions, ib.

in corporations, i, 478, n.

of house of peers, iii, 56, n.

Quo warranto, writ of. iii, 262.

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

used in corporation disputes, iii, 263.
within what time to be brought, iii, 264.

Reasonable part, ii, 492, 516, iv, 408, 424.

estovers.

(See "Estovers.")

Re-assurance, ii, 460.

Rebellion, commission of, iii, 444.
Rebutter, iii, 310.

Recall of subjects from abroad, i, 265; iv,
122, 160.

Recaption, iii, 3; iv, 363.

rights of, how exercised, iii, 4.
writ of, iii, 151.

Receipt, forgery of, iv, 250 and n.

Receipt of part of a debt in satisfaction of
all, 16, 23.

Receiving stolen goods, offence of, iv, 182,

133.

letters, iv, 234, n.

Recitals in a deed, ii, 297.

Recognizance, ii, 341, 465.

for the peace or good behavior, iv, 252.
to prosecute, iv, 296.

to give evidence, ib.

Recompense in value, ii, 359.

Reconcillation to the pope, &c., iv, 87.

Record, i, 69; iii, 24, 317; iv, 426.

is tried by nothing but itself, iii, 24.
when may be disputed, iii, 24, n.

for the assizes, iii, 356.

transcript of, to be annexed to writ of
error, iii, 400 n.

alienation by, ii, 344.

debts of, ii, 465.

no prescription of right by, ii, 265.
embezzling, &c., iv, 128.

courts of, iii, 24, 34, 406.

nisi prius, iii, 356.

trial by, iii, 330.

Recordari facias loquelam, iii, 34, 195.

Recoupment, iii, 306, n.

Recoveries, ii, 357 et seq.

common, invention of, ii, 116, 270.
vouchers in, ii, 358–360.

regarded as common assurances, ii, 360.
tenant to the præcipe, ii, 362.

deeds to lead or declare the uses of, ii, 363.
abolished, ii, 364, n.

of copyholds, ii, 371; iii, 166.
Recreant, iii, 340; iv, 348.
Rector of a church, i, 384.
Rectorial tithes, i, 388.

Recusants, popish, iv, 56, 124.

Recusatio judicis, iii, 361.

Reddendum, ii, 299.

Re-disseisin, writ of, iii, 188.

Reditus, ii, 57.

(See "Rent.")

Re-entry on land, iii, 4.

after exchange, on eviction, ii, 323.
Reeve-land, ii, 48, n., 90.

Reference to master, iii, 453.

Reform acts, i, 157, n., 159, n., 172, n.,

175, n.

Reformation of religion, iv, 430.

Refusal of a clerk, i, 389.

Regalia majora et minora, i, 241.
Regard, court of, iii, 72.
Regent, i, 248 and n.

queen, i, 219.

Register of seamen, i, 419.

Register of mariners, iii, 105.
falsifying, iv, 163.

Registrum omnium brevium, iii, 183.
Registry of conveyances, ii, 343.
Regrating, iv, 160.

Rehearing in equity, iii, 453.
Rejoinder, iii, 310.

Relation back, of title of bankrupt's as-

signees, ii, 485, 486, n.

of judgment, iii, 420, 421.

in forfeiture, iv, 381, 386, 387.
Relations, domestic, i, 422-466.
public, i, 146.

Relative rights and duties, i, 123, 146.
Relatives, defence of, iii, 3.

Relator, iii, 264, 427; iv, 308.

Release, by way of enlargement, ii, 324.
lease and, ii, 339.

per mitter l'estate, ii, 324.

per mitter le droit, ii, 325.

by extinguishment, ib.

by entry and feoffment, ib.

Reliction, ii, 261, n.

Reliefs, ii, 56, 65, 87; iv, 418, 420.

Religion, offences against, iv, 43 et seq.
Religious impostures, iv, 61, 62.

societies in United States, i, 376, n.
Rem, information in, iii, 262.
Remainders, ii, 163.

fee limited in remainder on a fee, ii, 165.
alternative contingent, ib.

freehold in futuro, ib.

particular estate, ii, 166, 167.
vested or contingent, ii, 168, 169.
possibility upon a possibility, ii, 169.
conveyance of contingent estates, ii, 290, n.
destruction of, ii, 117, 119, 171, 354, n.
trustees to preserve contingent, 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, 156.

distinguished from reversions, ii, 176.
cross, implication of, ii, 381.
in personalty, ii, 398.

formedon in, iii, 192.

Rent, rent service may issue out of tithes,
ii, 42, n.

none out of personalty, ib.

when and where payable, ii, 43; iii, 10, n.
apportionment 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.

to be paid by sheriff, iii, 417.
Repair of way, ii, 36, n.

of leasehold premises, ii, 144, n.
Repleader, when it will be awarded, iii, 395.
Replevin, iii, 13, 170.

how made, iii, 147.

action of, when may be brought, iii, 146.
proceedings in, 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.
in descent of real property, ii, 216, 219.
of facts, distinguished from warranty, ii,
460, n.

in distribution, ii, 517.
Reprieves, iv, 394.

Reprisals on foreigners, i, 258.
of goods, &c., iii, 4.
Republication, of wills, ii, 502.
Repugnant conditions, ii, 156.

Reputation, protection of, i, 134; iii, 123.
Requests, court of, i, 230; iii, 51, 81.
Rere fiefs, ii, 57.

Rescous, what and how remedied, iii, 146.
Rescripts of the emperor, i, 58.

Rescue, when it may be made, iii, 12, 170;
iv, 125, 131.

Reservations, ii, 299.

Residence of spiritual persons, i, 390, 392.
Resignation, i, 382, 393.

legality of engagements to resign a living,
ii, 280.

Resistance, right of, i, 251; iv, 436, 440.

must not exceed bounds of mere defence
and protection, iii, 4 and n.

Respite of jury, iii, 354.

Respondentia, ii, 458, 461.

Respondeat ouster, judgment of, iii, 303,
396; iv, 338.

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 1660, i, 210; iv, 438.

Restraining statute, i, 87: ii, 320; iv, 432.

Resulting use, on a conveyance, ii, 296, n,
335; iv, 430.

Retainder of debts, ii, 511; iii, 18.
executor of his own wrong cannot retain,
iii, 19.

of servant, iii, 142.

Retaliation, law of, iv, 12.