Abatement of freehold, iii. 167.

indictment, iv. 334.

nuisance, iii. 5.

writ, count, or suit, iii. 301.

plea in, iii. 301, iv. 334.

Abbey-lands, ii. 32, iv. 116.

molesting their possessors, iv. 116.

Abbots, i. 155.

Abbreviations, iii. 323.
Abdication, i. 212, iv. 78.

Abduction of child, iii. 140.
heiress, iv. 208.

ward, iii. 141.

wife, iii. 139.

women, i. 443.

or kidnapping, iv. 219.

Abearance, good, security for, iv. 251, 256.
Abeyance, ii. 107.

Abigei, iv. 239.

Abjuration, oath of, i. 368.

of the realm, iv. 56, 124, 332, 877.
Absolute power of the crown, i. 250.
property, ii. 389.

rights and duties, i. 123.

Abstract of a fine, ii. 351, app. 15.
Accedas ad curiam, iii. 34.
Acceptance of bills, ii. 469.
Accession, property by, ii. 404.
Accessories, iv. 35.

after the fact, iv. 37.

before the fact, iv. 36.

when to be tried, iv. 323.

Accidents, where relieved against, iii. 481.
Accomplices, discovery of, iv. 330, 331.
Accord, iii. 15.

Account-books, when evidence, iii. 368.
cognizable in equity, iii. 437.
writ of, iii. 164.

Accroaching royal power, iv. 76.
Ac etiam, iii. 288, app. 18.
Act of bankruptcy, ii. 477.
grace, how passed, i. 184.
when pleaded, iv. 396.
parliament, i. 85.

disobedience to, iv. 122.
how made, i. 181.

its ancient form, i. 182.
power, i. 186.

private, i. 86, ii. 344.

public, i. 85.

when binding on the crown, i. 261.

Action at law, iii. 116.

chose in, ii. 397.

ex contractu, iii. 117.

delicto, iii. 117.

feodal, iii. 117.

Action at law, mixed, iii. 118.
personal, iii. 117.

plea to, iii. 303.

property in, ii. 396.

real, iii. 117.

Actual right of possession, ii. 196.
Additions, i. 407, iii. 302, iv. 306, 334.

Adherence to the king's enemies, iv. 82.

Adjoining county, trial in, iii. 383.
Adjournment of parliament, i. 186.

Admeasurement of dower, ii. 136, iii. 183.

pasture, iii. 238.
Administration, ii. 489.

cum testamento annexo, ii. 504.
de bonis non, ii. 506.
durante absentia, ii. 503.
durante minore ætate, ii. 503.
limited or special, ii, 506.
Administrator, ii. 504, iv. 428.
Admiralty causes, iii. 106.

court of, iii. 69, iv. 268.
Admission of a clerk, i. 390.
Admittance to copyholds, ii. 370.
Admittendum clericum, writ ad, iii. 250.
Ad quod damnum, writ of, ii. 271.
Advertising for stolen goods, iv. 134.

| Adultery, i. 441, iii. 139, iv. 65, 191.

Advocate, iii. 26.

Advocatus fisci, iii. 27.

Advowson, ii. 21, iv. 426.

Equitas sequitur legem, ii. 330, iii. 441.

Affectum, challenge propter, iii. 363, iv. 352
Affeerors of amercements, iv. 379.
Affidavit, in general, iii. 304.
Affinity, i. 434.

Affirmance of judgments, iii. 411*.
Affray, iv. 145.

Age, action suspended by, iii. 300.

of consent to marriage, i. 436.
persons how reckoned, i. 463, iv. 22.
Aggregate corporation, i. 469.
fund, i. 831.

Agistment, ii. 452.

Agnati, ii. 235.

Agnus Dei, &c., iv. 115.

Agriculture, its original, ii. 7.

Aid-prayer, iii. 800.

Aids, feodal, ii. 63, 86, iv. 418, 419.

parliamentary, i. 308.

Air, right to, ii. 14.

Albinatus jus, i. 372, 378.

Alderman, i. 117.

Alderney, island of, i. 107.

Alehouses, iv. 64, 167.

Alfred, his dome-book, i. 64, iv. 411.

Alias writ, iii. 283, app. 15, iv. 319.

Alienation, ii. 287.

fine for, ii. 71, iv. 418.

forfeiture by, ii. 268.

Alien priories, i. 386, iv. 113.

Aliens, i. 366, 371, ii. 249, 274, 293, iv. 111.

du.y, i. 316, 372, 374.
Alimony, i. 441, iii. 94.
Allegation, iii. 100.

Allegiance, i. 366, iv. 74.
local, i. 370.
natural, i. 369.

cath of, i. 367, iv. 274.
refusing it, iv. 116.
withdrawing from, iv. 87.
Allodial property, ii. 47, 60.
Allodium, ii. 105.

Allowance of franchise, iii. 263.
pardons, iv. 401, 402.
writs of error, iv. 392.
to bankrupts, ii. 483.

Alluvion, ii. 261.

Almanac, its authority, iii. 333.

Alteration of deeds, ii. 308.

Amended bill in equity, iii. 448.

Amendments at law, iii. 407, iv. 489.

compelling prisoners to become, iv. 128.
Appurtenant common, ii. 33.

Arbitrary consecrations of tithes, i. 118, ii. 20
Arbitration, iii. 16.

Archbishop, i. 155, 377.
Archdeacon, i. 383.

his court, iii. 64.

Archdeaconry, i. 112.

Arches court, iii. 64.

dean of, iii. 65.

Areopagus, court of, iii. 865, iv. 169, 348.
Aristocracy, i. 49.

Armed, being unusually, iv. 149.
Armies, i. 262.

standing, i. 414, iv. 419, 439, 441.
Armorial ensigns, ii. 428, iii. 105.

Armour, &c., embezzling the king's, iv 101.
statutes of, i. 411.

Arms and ammunition, exporting them i. 260
right of having, i. 143.

Arraignment, iv. 322, app. 3.

incidents to, iv. 324.

25, 26, iv. 379, 423.

commission of, i. 411.

Arrest of judgment, iii. 393, app. 11, iv. 876.

of persons, iii. 288, iv. 289.

seamen and soldiers, i. 421.

Arson, iv. 220.

appeal of, iv. 314.

Articles of the navy, i. 420.

war, i. 415.

Artificers, i. 407.

residing abroad, iv. 160*.

transporting them, iv. 160*.

As, Roman divisions of, ii. 462.

Ascendants excluded from inheriting, ii. 210.
Asportation, iv. 231.

Assault, iii. 120, iv. 145, 216.

costs in action for, iii. 401.
Assembly of estates, i. 147.

riotous or unlawful, iv. 146.

Assensu patris, dower ex, ii. 182.
Assessments, i. 812.

Assets, ii. 510.

by descent, or real, ii. 244, 802, 340.
personal, ii. 510.

Assignees of bankrupt, ii. 480.

Assignment of bankrupt's effects, ii. 485.
of chose in action, ii. 442.
dower, ii. 135.

errors, iii. app. 24.

estate, ii. 326.

reversions, iii. 158.

Assigns, ii. 289.

Assize, certificate of, iii. 389.

commission of, iii. 60, iv. 269, 424.
court of, iii. 58.

general, i. 148.

grand, iii. 841, 851, app. 5, iv. 422.
justices of, iii. 59, iv 269.

killing them, iv. 84.

of arms, i. 411, ii. 66.

bread, breaking, iv. 159.
rent of, ii. 42.

turned into a jury, iii. 403.
writ of, iii. 184, iv. 422.
Association, writ of, iii. 60.
Assumpsit, express, iii. 158.

Bank, misbehaviour of its officers, iv. 231.
Bankrupt, ii. 471, iv. 431, 436.
Bankruptcy, ii. 285, 471.

cognizance of, iii. 428.
fraudulent, iv. 156.
Banneret, knight, i. 403.
Banns, i. 439.

Bar of dower, ii. 136.

plea in, iii. 306, iv. 335, 396.

trial at, iii. 352, iv. 351.

Bargain and sale of lands, ii. 338, app. 2.

Bargemaster, action against, iii. 165.

Baron, i. 398.

and feme, i. 433.

Baronet, i. 403.

Baronies of bishops, i. 156.

Barretry, iv. 134.

Barristers, i. 23, iii. 26.

Base fees, ii. 109.

services, ii. 61.

tenants, ii. 148.

Bastard, i. 454.

administration to, ii. 505.

concealment of its death, iv. 198, 858.

eigne, ii. 248.

incapacity of, i. 458.

maintenance of, i. 457.

punishment for having, iv. 65.

Bath, knight of the, i: 403.

Battel, trial by, iii. 337, app. 8, iv. 846, 418.

422, 424.

Bachelor, knight, i. 404.

Backing warrants, iv. 291.
Bail above, iii. 290.

below, iii. 291.
common, iii. 287.
excepting to, iii. 291.
excessive, i. 135, iv. 297.
in criminal cases, iv. 297.

in error, iii. 410*.

justifying or perfecting, iii. 291.

refusing, iv. 297.

special, iii. 287, app. 19.

taking insufficient, iv. 297.

to the action, iii. 290.

to sheriff, iii. 290.

Bailable or not, who, iv. 297, 298, 299.

Bail-bond, iii. 290, app. 19.

Bailiffs, i. 345, 427.

of hundreds, i. 116, 345.

Bailiwick, i. 344, ii. 38.

Bailment, ii. 396, 451.

Bail-piece, iii. 291, app. 20.

Ballot for jurors, iii. 358.
Balneari, iv. 239.

Banishment, i. 187, iv. 877, 401.
Bank, i. 328.

inspection of, iii. 333.
of a clergyman, iv. 217.

servant, iii. 142.

Bawdy-houses, iv. 29, 64, 167.
Beaconage, suit for, iii. 108.

Beacons, i. 264.

Behaviour, good security for, iv. 251, 256, 402.
Beheading, iv. 92, 376.

Benefices, iv. 107.

Benefit of clergy, iv. 333, 365, 418, 429, 441.

Benevolence, compulsive, i. 140, iv. 486.
Berwick, i. 99.

part of England, ib.
Besayle, writ of, iii. 186.
Bigamy, iv. 163.

Bill for patents, &c., ii. 346.
in equity, iii. 442.
parliament, i. 181.

how passed, ib.
of exceptions, iii. 372.
exchange, ii. 466.
indictment, iv. 302.

Middlesex, iii. 285, app. 18.
privilege, iii. 289.

rights, i. 128, iv. 440.

or note, forging, iv. 247, 249.
stealing, iv. 284.

Billa vera, iv. 806.

Bishop, i. 155, 377, 401.

certificate of, iii. 335.

not electing or consecrating, iv. 116.

right of, to try or be tried, as a peer, i. 401,
iv. 264, 265.

Bishoprics, nomination to, i. 878, iv. 108, 115,

415, 430.

Bissextile year, ii. 140.

Black act, iii. 161, iv. 144, 207, 285, 245.

lead, stealing of, iv. 234.

maile, ii. 43, iv. 244.

Blanch rent, ii. 43.
Basphemy, iv. 59.
Blench-holding, ii. 43.

Blood corrupted, ii. 251, iv. 338.
inheritable, ii. 246.

of the first purchaser, ii. 220.
restitution in, iv. 402.
royal, i. 225.

whole and half, ii. 227.
Body corporate, i. 467.
how protected, i. 134.
politic, i. 467.

Boiling to death, iv. 196.
Bona notabilia, ii. 509.
vacantia, i. 299.

Bond, ii. 340, app. 13, iii. app. 19, iv. 442.

of arbitration, iii. 16.

tenants, ii. 148.

Bono et malo, writ de, iv. 270.

Book of rates, i. 316.

Book-land, ii. 90.

Books and papers, production of, iii. 382.

popish, importing or selling them, iv. 115.

Borough, i. 115, ii. 82.

courts, iii. 80.

English, i. 75, ii. 83.

Borrowing, ii. 453.

Borsholder, i. 115, 356, iv. 413.

Botes, ii. 35.

Bottomry, ii. 457.

Bound bailiffs, i. 345.

Bounties on exportation, i. 315.

Bordeaux, mayor of, his certificate, iii. 334.
Bracton, i. 72, iv. 425.

Breach of close, iii. 209.

covenant, iii. 156.

duty, action for, iii. 165.
peace, iv. 142.

pound, iii. 146.

prison, iv. 130.

Calais, captain of, his certificate, iii. 384.
Calendar of prisoners, iv. 403.
Calling the plaintiff, iii. 376.
Cancelling deeds, ii. 309.
letters-patent, iii. 47, 48.
wills, ii. 502.

Canonical obedience, iv. 106, 112, 203.
purgation, iii. 842, iv. 368.

Canon law, i. 14, 19, 79, 82, 83, iv. 421, 422.
Canons of a church, i. 383.

of inheritance, ii 208.
1603, i. 83

Capacity of guilt, iv. 20.

to purchase or convey, ii. 290.

Capias ad audiendum judicium, iv. 375.

respondendum, iii. 281, app. 14, iv. 818, 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.

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

succession per, ii. 218.

Capital punishment, iv. 9, 18, 236*, 376 418,

441.

Capite, tenants in, ii. 60.

Caption of indictment, iv. 351, app. 1.

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. 453.
Castigatory for scolds, iv. 168.
Castration, iv. 206.

Casu consimili, writ in, iii. 51.

proviso, writ of entry in, iii. 183.
Casual ejector, iii. 202, app. 7.

Cattle, malicious killing or maiming, iv. 244, 245
owner answerable for, iii. 154, 211, iv. 197.
Caveat, iii. 98, 246.

Causa matrimonii prælocuti, writ of entry,

183.

Cause, challenge for, iv. 353.

Causes of demurrer, iii. 315, app. 24.
Centenarius, i. 116.

Centeni, i. 117, iii. 35.

Centumviri, iii. 315.

Cepi corpus, iii. 288, app. 15, 18, 19.
Certificate for costs, iii. 214.

into chancery, iii. 453.

of assize, iii. 389.

of bankrupt, ii. 482.

poor, i. 364.

trial by, iii. 333.

Certiorari facias, iv. 262, 265, 272, 320, 821.
Cessavit, writ of, iii. 232.

Cessio bonorum, ii. 473, 488.
Cession of a benefice, i. 392.

malicious, iv. 244, 245, 246.

the king's ships, &c., iv. 102.

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

Butlerage, i. 315.

By-laws, i. 475.

action on, iii. 160.

vie, ii. 123.

use, ii. 328.

Chains, hanging in, iv. 202.
Challenge of jury, iii. 359, iv. 852
to fight, iv. 150.

Chamberlain, lord great, iii. 38.
Champerty, iv. 135.

Chancellor, his name and office, iii. 47.
lord, iii. 38, 47.

killing him, iv. 84.

of a diocese, i. 382.

the duchy of Lancaster, iii. 78.
exchequer, iii. 45.

university, his court, iii. 83.

Chance-medley, iv. 184.

Chancery, court of, iii. 47, iv. 436.
Chapters, i. 382.

Charge to grand jury, iv. 303.
Charitable uses, ii. 273, 376.

commission of, iii. 428.

Charities, cognizance of, iii. 427.
informations for, ib.

Charter, ii. 295.

Charter of the king, ii. 346.

Charter-governments in America, i. 109.

Charter-land, ii. 90.

Chase, ii. 38, 416, iv. 415.

beasts of, ii. 38, 415.

Chastity, homicide in defence of, iv. 181.
Chattels, ii. 385.

personal, ii. 387.

real, ii. 386.

Chaud-medley, iv. 184.

Cheat, action against, iii. 165*.
Cheating, iv. 159.

at play, iv. 173.

tenants in, ii. 60.

Children, duties of, i. 453.

evidence of, iv. 214.

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.

how assigned, ii. 442, iv. 441.
possession, ii. 389.
Christian courts, iii. 64.
Christianity, offences against, iv. 43.
part of the laws of England, iv. 59.
Church, burglary in, iv. 224.
larceny in, iv. 240.

marriage in, i. 439.

offences against, iv. 50.

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

repairs of, iii. 92.

Churchwardens, i. 394.

Cinque ports, courts of, iii. 79.

Circuits, iii. 59, iv. 422, 424.

Civil injuries, iii. 2.

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

liberty, i. 6, 125, 251

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.

averse to the common law, i. 19, 20.
benefit of, iv. 333, 365, 413, 429, 441.
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.

Clients, iii. 28.

Clipping the coin, iv. 90.

Clothes, malicious destroying of, iv. 244.

Clocks, when introduced, iii. 410.

Close, breach of, iii. 209.

rolls, ii. 346.

writs, ib.

Colleges, i. 471.

their visitors, i. 482.

Collegia in the civil law, i. 469.

Colligendum bona defuncti, letters ad, ii. 505
Colonies, i. 108, ii. 7.

Colour in pleading, iii. 309.