Retorno habendo, plegii de, iii, 147.

writ de, iii, 150, 413.
Retraxit, iii, 296, 395.
Retrospective legislation, i, 46, n.
Return days, iii, 275.

false or double, i, 180; iii, 111, 372.
irreplevisable, writ of, iii, 150.
of writs, iii, 273, 275.
Revealed law of God, i, 42.
Revenue, extraordinary, i, 307.
ordinary, i, 281.

jurisdiction of exchequer, iii, 428.
causes, trial of, iv, 281.

officers, assaults on, iv, 155 and n.
Reversal of judgment, iii, 411; iv, 390.
of outlawry, iii, 284; iv, 320, 362.
Reversion, ii, 111, 175.

incidents to, fealty and rent, ii, 175.
merger, ii, 177.
Reverter, formedon in, iii, 192.
Review, commission of, iii, 67.
court of, iii, 428, n.

Rivers, sluices on, destroying, iv, 144.

thefts on navigable, iv, 239.
nuisances to navigation, iii, 5, n.
Roads, ii, 35, n., 36, n.

(See "Highway.")

Robbery, iv, 242, 244, n.

(See "Larceny.")
there must be a taking, iv, 243.
not material when taken, ib.

must be a force or putting in fear, ib.
punishment, iv, 245 and n.
assaulting with intent to rob, ib.
Roguery, incorrigible, iv, 169, n.
Rogues, iv, 169.

(See "Vagrants.")
Rolls, master of, iii, 451.
Roman law.*

(See "Civil Law.")

division of money and interest, ii, 462.
Roman Catholics, disabilities of, ii, 257,
293; iv, 55.

relief from disabilities, i, 368 n; ii, 257, n.
schools of, i, 451.

members of parliament. i, 163, n.

rights and protection of, iv, 58.

patrons, rights of universities to benefices
belonging to, iii, 251.

guardians, i, 462, n.

Rome, appeals to, in ecclesiastical cases, iil,
66.

Romney marsh, laws of, iii, 74.
Roots, destroying, iv, 246.
stealing, iv, 233.

Rope dancers, iv, 168.
Routs, iv, 146.

Royal assent to bills, i, 185.
authority, i, 250.
dignity, i, 241.
family, i, 218, 224.
marriages, i. 225; iv, 117.
fish, i, 223, 290; ii, 403.
forests, i, 289.
income, i, 332, 334
liability, i, 243.
mines, i, 295.
perfection, i, 246.
perpetuity, i, 249.
prerogative, i, 237.
revenue, i, 281.
Sovereignty, i, 241.
ubiquity, i, 267.

Rule in Shelly's Case, ii, 172, n., 242.

of court, iii, 304.

Rural dean, i, 383.

deanery, i, 111.

Rider to a bill, i, 183.

Sabbath breaking, iv, 63.
Sacrament, reviling of, iv, 50.
Sacramentum decisionis, iii, 342.
Safe conducts, i, 259, 260; iv, 68.
Saint Martin le grand, court of, iii, 80.
Saladine tenth, i, 309.

Sale of chattels, ii, 9, 446.

after execution, ii, 447.

of distress, iii, 14.

what contracts of to be in writing, fi, 448.
effect of part execution, ib.

Sale of chattels, of earnest, 11, 447.

delivery, ii, 448, 449.

when property passes, ii, 448.

when right of possession passes, ii, 449.
stoppage in transitu, ib.

of goods to be manufactured. ib.
bill of lading, ib.

vendor's lien, ib.

of horses, ii, 450.

of stolen goods, ii, 449.
warranty of title, ii, 451.
of quality, ib.

Salt duty, i, 322.

Salvage, i, 293; ii, 458, 460.
Sanction of laws, i, 56.

Sanctuary, iv, 332, 365, 436.
Sark, Isle of, i, 107.

Satisdatio, iii, 291.

Satisfaction, entry on record, iii, 421; iv,
428.

Saxon laws, i, 64; iv, 410, 412.

Scale of crimes and punishments, iv, 18.
Scandal and impertinence in pleading, iii,

442.

Scandalum magnatum, i, 402; iii, 123.
Schire-men, i, 398.

Schoolmaster, i, 453; iv, 54.

Sciences, auxiliary to study of the law,i,33.

Scire facias to repeal patents, iii,47,260,361.
against bail, iii, 416.

in detinue, iii, 413.

to remove usurper's clerk, iii, 248.

to revive judgment, iii, 421.

Scold, common, iv, 169.

Scot or assessment, iii, 74.

Scotch peers, election of, i, 169; iv; 117.

privileges of, i, 97, 99, 165, 401, n.

Scotland, i, 95-98.

arrest of offenders in, iv, 292.

offences committed in, iv, 304.

Scripture, scoffing at, iv, 59.

Scutage, i, 310; ii, 74.

Se defendendo, homicide, i, 130; iii, 3; iv,

impressment of, ib.

wages of, iii, 107.

counterfeiting will or powers of, iv, 248.

personation of, iv, 249.

Second deliverance, writ of, iii, 150.

Surcharge, writ of, iii, 239.

Secretaries of state, i, 338.
Secta, iii, 295, 344.

ad molendinum, iii, 235.

Secunda superoneratione, iii, 239.
Security of person, i, 129.

for good behavior, iv, 251, 256.
for the peace, iv, 251, 254.

for money, iii, 439.

(See "Bond," "Mortgage," "Statute.")

of, iii, 134.

Selecti judices of the Romans, iii, 366.
Self-defence, excuse for breaches of peace,
iii, 3.

in homicide, i, 130; iii, 8; iv, 183.
Self-murder, iv, 189.

Semi-plena probatio, iii, 370.
Senatus consulta, i, 80, 86.
Senatus decreta, i, 86.

Separate estate of wife, ii, 293, n.

Septennial elections, i, 189.

Sequestration, iii, 417, 444, 445.

Sergeant at law, i, 24; iii, 26, 28.
premier, iii, 28.

at arms, iii, 444.

Sergeantry, ii, 73, 77, 81.
Servants, i, 423.

battery of, iii, 142.

characters to, iii, 125.

fires by negligence of, i, 432; iv, 222.
husbandry, i, 425.

liability of, i, 429.

master of, when answerable for, i, 430,
431; iii, 153.

Servants, menial, i, 425.
retainer of, ib.
duties of, i, 327.

embezzlement by, iv, 231.
larceny by, iv, 230.

of ambassador, i, 256.
Service, incidents of, i, 427.
Services, ii, 41, 60.

(See "Tenure.")

subtraction of, iii, 234.
remedy for, iii, 235.

Sessions of gaol delivery, iv, 270.

great, of Wales, iii, 77.

of parliament, i, 186, 187.
formerly one day, i, 46, n.
of oyer and terminer, iv, 270.
quarter, iv, 271, 274.
Set-off, iii, 304; iv, 442.

must be pleaded, iii, 304, n.
in bankruptcy, ii, 487, n.

Settlement of the crown, i, 128, 216; iv, 440.

of the poor, i, 362, 364.

marriage, trustees to preserve contingent
remainders, ii, 171.

protector of, ii, 364, n.

of personalty, ii, 398.

Severalty, estate in, ii, 179.

Severance of joint estate, ii, 186.

Severity of punishments, impolicy of, iv, 16.
Sewers, commissioners of, iii, 73.
Sextons, i, 395.

Sheep, &c., stealing, and killing with intent

to steal, iv, 239.

Shelly's Case, rule in, ii, 172, n., 242.
Shepway, court of, iii, 79.

Sheriff, i, 117, 339; iv, 292, 413, 428.
duration of office, i, 342.

duties and powers, i, 313.
how chosen, i, 339.

officers of, i, 345.

trial before, iii, 61, n.

official misfeasance or non feasance, iii, 163.
obliged to take bail, iii, 289.

responsible if bail not put in to action, iii,
290.

return of jurors by, iii, 358, n.; iv, 350.
liability for escape of prisoner, iii, 415.
cannot retake prisoner after voluntary es-
cape, iii, 415.

when excused for negligence, ib.
Sheriff's court in London, iii, 80.
Sheriff's tourn, iv, 273, 411, 424.
Ship, prize and ransom of, ii, 401, 402.
bottomry and respondentia, ii, 457-461.
insurance, ii, 458.

in distress, plundering, i, 293.
money, iv, 473.

seized as a prize, remedy for, iv, 69.
plundering in distress, iv, 235.
burning, destroying, &c., iv, 246.
burning, &c., king's ships, iv, 102, 245.
Shipwrecks, i, 291.

Shire, i, 116.

Shooting at another, iv, 207.

Shop books, iii, 368.

Shroud, stealing of, iv, 235.

Shrubs, destroying, iv, 246.

stealing, iv, 233.

Si fecerit te securum, iii, 274.

Sign manual, ii, 347.

forgery of, iv, 89, 93, n.

Signature by a mark. ii, 305, 377, n.

to deed, ii, 305.

Signet, privy, ii, 347.

Significavit, iii, 102.

Similitude of handwriting, iv, 358.

Simony, i, 389, 393; ii, 278 et seq.; iv, 62.
Simple contract, ii, 465.

(See "Parol.")

Sinecure, i, 386.

Single combat, iv, 346.

Si non omnes, writ of, iii, 60.

Six clerks, iii, 443, 451.

Skins, exporting of, iii, 154.
Slander, iii, 123.

when actionable, iii, 124.

when replication of, may be justified, iii,
124, n.

truth as a justification, iii, 125.
when words privileged, iii, 125.
mitigation of damages in, iii, 125, n.
Slavery, i, 418, 423.

abolition of, i, 423, n., 425, n.
Slaves, i, 127 and n., 423-425; ii, 402.
Sluices on rivers, destroying, iv, 144.
Small debts, courts for, iii, 81; iv, 441.
Small debtor's act, iii, 488, n.

Small tithes, i, 388.

Smells, offensive, iii, 217.

Smoke farthings, i, 324.

Society, origin and nature of, i, 47; ii, 8.
Sodomy, offence of, iv, 215.

soliciting to commit, iv, 215.
assault to commit, iv, 217.

sending letters charging party with, iv,
144.

Sodor and Man, bishopric of, i, 106, 112.
Sokeman, ii, 100.

Soldiers, i, 178, 408.
wandering, iv, 164.
quartering, i, 414, 415.

Solicitor, iii, 26.

general, iii, 27.

Son assault demesne, iii, 120, 306.
Sorcery, iv, 60.

South Sea Company, misbehavior of officers
of, iv, 231, n., 234.

fund, i, 331.

certificate that cause required, iii, 367, n.
Special plea, iii, 305.

Specialty, ii, 466; iii, 155.

Specific performance of contract, iii, 438.

of agreement to arbitrate, iii, 17, n.
Spiriting away persons, iv, 219.
Spiritual corporations, i, 470.

courts, i, 61; iii, 61.

lords, i, 155, 157.

persons, i, 376.

Spoliation, remedy for, iii, 90.

Sporting, restrictions upon, ii, 418.

Springing uses, ii, 334.

Squibs, nuisance by, iv, 168.
Stabbing, iv, 193.

Stage plays, when a nuisance, iv, 167.
Stamp duties, i, 323; iii, 323.
on deed, &c., ii, 297.

on bill of exchange, ii, 469.
forgery of, iv, 249.

when material in forgery, &c., iv, 247,
248.

Standard of coin, i, 278.

of weights and measures, i, 274, 275; iv,
275.

Standing armies, i, 413, 414.

Stannary courts, iii, 80.

Stated damages, iii, 435.
Statute, i, 85.

equity of, i, 62, n.
how passed, i, 181.
guardian by, i, 462.
labor, i, 58, 358.
law, i, 85.

private, ii, 344. '

when to take effect, i, 46.

when applicable to copyhold, ii, 113.
of distributions, ii, 515.

de religiosis, ii, 270.

of frauds. (See "Frauds, Statute of ")
merchant, ii, 160; iv, 426, 431.

staple, ib.

Statutes, rules for construction of, i, 87-91.
division of, i, 85, 86.

how enrolled, i, 182, n.

how stated, i, 85, n.

of mortmain, i, 108, n., 479.

promulgation of, i, 45, 185, n.
in pari materia, i, 60, n.
preambles of, i, 60, n.
penal, how construed, i, 86.
Staundforde, i, 72.

Stealing an heiress, iv, 209 and n.

་་

(See Larceny.")

Step-children, i, 449, n.

Sterling, i, 278.

Steward, i, 427.

lord high, his court, iii, 37; iv, 260, 261,
263.

of the household, his court, iii, 76; iv, 276.
of the university, his court, iv, 277.
stipend, curate's remedy for non-payment
of, ii, 90 and n.

Stipulatio, iii, 291.

Stipulation in admiralty court, iii, 108.
Stirpes, claim per, ii, 217, 517.
Stocks, punishment of, iv, 377.

Stolen goods, receiving, &c., iv, 132, 238.
taking reward to help to, iv, 131.
sale of, ii, 449
Stolen marriages, iv, 209.

Stoppage in transitu, ii, 488, n; iii, 305.
Stores, embezzling the king's, iv, 101.
receiving stolen, iv, 133.

Stranger, when his goods or chattels may
be distrained, iii, 8.

Stream of water, property in, ii, 18, n., 266,
n., 402.

Striking in the king's palace or courts, iv,
125, 276.

Study of the law, to whom essential, i, 6-16.
discouragements of, i, 31.

uses of, i, 6.

in the universities, i, 16, 26-37.

mode of commencing, i, 31.

should be combined with other studies, i,

27, 33.

formerly restrained in London, i, 24.

Study of the law, neglected in the universi-
ties, i, 4.

Style, new and old, ii, 140, n.

Subinfeudations, statute against, ii, 91, 102.
Subjection, civil excuse from crime by, iv,
28.

Submission to arbitration, iii, 16.
Subordination of perjury, iv, 137.
Subpoena ad testificandum, writ of, iii, 369.
duces tecum, iii, 382.

in equity, iii, 442, 443.

writ of, by whom devised, iii, 51.
opposition to, in parliament, iii, 52.
Subscriptions unlawful, iv, 117.
Subsequent, condition, ii, 154.
evidence, iii, 403, 454.

Subsidies, ecclesiastical, i, 312.
lay, i, 308, 311; iv, 423.

on exports and imports, i, 316.

Subtraction of fealty, suit of court and rent,
iii, 230.

remedy for, by distress, iii, 231.

of conjugal rights, iii, 94.

of legacies, iii, 98.

of tithes, iii, 88, 102.

in equity, iii, 442.

of court, how compelled, iii, 231.
of witnesses, iii, 295.

Summary convictions, iv, 280 et seq.
Summoners, iii, 279.
Summons, iii, 279.

to parliament, i, 149, 150.

before conviction, iv, 281.
Sumptuary laws, i, 126; iv, 170.
Sunday, no judicial day, iii, 278, 290.

rule when paper falls due upon, ii, 469, n.
business and entertainments on, iv, 64.
Sabbath breaking generally, iv, 63.
Supersedeas, writ of, i, 353.
Superstitious uses, ii, 272; iii, 410.
Supplemental bill, iii, 448.
Suppletory oath, iii, 370.
Supplicavit, iv, 253.
Supplies, i, 308, 313.

Support of land, right to, ii, 36, n.
Support of children by parents, i, 447, 458.
of parents by children, i, 453.

of the poor, i, 359.

Supremacy, oath of, i, 368 and n.; iv, 115,

420.

Supreme court of England, iii, 30, n.

Supreme magistrate, i, 146.

power, i, 49, 146.

Surcharge of common, iii, 237.
Sur disclaimer, iii, 233, n.

Table of precedence, i, 405, n.
of consanguinity, ii, 202–206.
Tacking mortgages, ii, 160, n.
Tail, estate in.

(See "Estates.")
Taking, felonious, iv, 230, 232.
unlawful, iii, 145.
Tale or count, iii, 293.
Tales, iii, 365; iv, 344.
Talionis, lex, iv, 12.
Talliage, i, 311; iv, 419, 426.
Tariff, i, 313.

Taxation, by house of commons, i, 169.
principle of imposition of, i, 318.
of costs, iii, 399.

primer seisin or first fruits, ii, 66, 87.
wardship, ii, 67, 87.

court of wards and liveries, ii, 69.
knighthood, ib.

marriage of ward, ii, 70, 88.

fines for alienation, ii, 71, 89.
attornment, ii, 72.

escheat, ii, 72, 89.

grand sergeanty, cornage, ii, 73, 74, 77,81.
escuage, ii, 74.

destruction of military tenures, ii, 76.
frankalmoign, ii, 77.

modern English tenures, ii, 78 et seq.
free socage, ii, 78.
petit sergeanty, ii, 81.
burgage, ii, 82.

borough English, ii, 83.
gavelkind, ii, 84.

Incidents of socage tenures, ii, 86–88.

villeinage, ii, 89, 92, 98.

copyholds, ii, 97, 98.

manors, ii, 90.

ancient demesne, ii, 98.

spiritual, or frankalmoign, ii, 101.
by divine service, ii, 102.
profits of military, i, 287.
disturbance of, iii, 242.

Term of years, ii, 143; iv, 430.
executory bequest of, ii, 175, n.
Terms of court, origin of the, iii, 275.
when they begin and end, iii, 277, n.
Terre tenant, ii, 91, 328.

Test act, iv, 59, 439.

Testament, ii, 489, 499; iv, 424, 430.
(See “Will.”)

Testamentary causes in county courts, i
95: iv, 421.

in equity, iii. 437.

in ecclesiastical courts, iii, 96, 437.
Testamentary guardian, i, 462.
Testatum capias, iii, 283.

Teste of writs, i, 179; iii, 274.

Testes, trial per, iii, 333.

Thainland, ii, 90.

Thanet, Isle of, i, 105.

Theater, copyright in plays, &c., ii, 407, n.

Theft, iv, 229, 236, 420.

(See "Larceny.")

Theft-bote, iv, 133, 363.

Thellusson act, ii, 175, n.

Theodosian code, i, 81.

Things real and personal, ii, 16, 384.

(See Property.")

Threatening letters, iv, 137, 144.

Threats of accusation, to extort money, iv,

144.