INDEX.

ABBEYS-vide EDWARD VI., reign of HENRY VIII., reign of-REFOR

MATION

ABDUCTION, of a woman on account of her fortune, 1052

Of a girl under sixteen years of age, 1112

Decoying, enticing, or detaining children, 1078

ABJURATION, oath of, 193–196, 290, 293, 427, 444, (Note 53) 445, 473,
573, 604

Dispensed with in England and Wales by 5 & 6 William IV. c. 36, 5
Must be taken by Protestants in Ireland, 548

ABORTION, administering medicine, &c., to procure the miscarriage of a
woman with child, 1036

Using instruments to procure miscarriage, 1036

ACCIDENT-vide EQUITY

ACCUSING, or threatening to accuse, a man of an infamous crime, with intent to extort money, 1036, 1049

ACTION-vide EQUITY-PROCESS

ADDITION, of defendant, how described in civil process, 702, 703, 712–715
ADJOURNMENT, of nomination or poll in cases of riot, 558

Of county court and place of election, 550, 551

ADMISSION OF FREEMEN-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS

AFFIRMATION, the solemn affirmation and declaration of Quakers to be accepted instead of an oath, 548

AFFRAY-vide RIOTS

Not assisting in the suppression of, 1103
Illegal, causing an, 1103

AGENT, applying to his own use money or securities intrusted to him for a
specific purpose, 1083

Converting to his own use any chattel, security, or power of attorney,
intrusted to him for safe custody, or for any special purpose, 1083,

1084

Pledging goods of his principal intrusted to him for sale, 1083, 1084 AGENTS, and others employed at parliamentary elections, disqualified from voting, 547

Bribery by, 551-556

AGGREGATE BODIES-vide BOROUGHS-LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS

ALDERMAN-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS

Title of, under the Saxons, was personal, 13

Local divisions of shires and boroughs were presided over by the "ealdor-
man," 15

ALFRED, accession of, to the throne, 8

Collection of Saxon laws by, 17, 18

Principle under which Alfred acted, in his legislative capacity, was to
respect established authority, 18

ALIENS, excluded from the enjoyment of either civil or military employ-
ments, 474

Incapacities of, from exercising the elective franchise, 546

Disqualifications of, from being members of parliament, 621

INDEX.

INDEX.

ALLEGIANCE, possession of the throne gives a sufficient title to the subject's, and justifies resistance to those who may claim a superior right, 155

Limitation on the crime of treason, 111

No power in England has a coercive power over the person of the king
(Note 7), 420

Circumstances under which the subject is justified in renouncing, 468
Subject absolved from, to a Roman Catholic sovereign, 473

Oath of, dispensed with in England and Wales, by 5 & 6 William IV. c. 36,-but still to be taken by Protestants in Scotland and Ireland, 548 Endeavouring to seduce any subject from, 1035, 1067, 1109-1112′ ALMS, receipt of, creates a disqualification from exercising the parliamentary elective franchise in boroughs, 546

AMERICA, in republican, liberty is the theory, and slavery the practice, 366 Claim of the colonies of, of voting supplies to the crown would, if obtained, have been hurtful to the English constitution, 1020, 1021 Those who were the advocates of American independence, were the most sanguine of the future wealth and greatness of that country, 1023

Policy which ought to have been pursued by England, respecting the colonies of, (Note†), 1023, 1024

AMMUNITION-vide STORES

ANATOMY, offending against the laws for regulating schools of, 1125
ANCHORS, punishment for unlawful possession of, 1085

ANCIENT DEMESNE, tenants in, temp. William I., 25

Parliamentary rights of tenants of, 543

ANCIENT RIGHTS-vide BOROUGHS-LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES-MUNI-
CIPAL INSTITUTIONS

Voters in respect of, in cities and boroughs, protected by 2 William IV.
c. 45, p. 545

ANIMAL, punishment for an unnatural offence committed with, 1033
Unlawful hunting or killing of, 1074, 1075, 1089

ANNUITIES, forging transfer of interest in, 1045, 1046, 1069

APPEAL, House of Lords have an ultimate jurisdiction in cases of, from
the courts below, 447

Abolition of, in cases of murder, treason, or other offences, 602
APPRENTICE-vide MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS

ARCHITECT, appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, to superintend
the execution of public works, disqualified from parliament, 625

ARMS, unlawful drilling to the use of, 1115

ARMY, origin of the standing, 422

Restrictions on the powers of the crown, respecting maintenance of, 486, 487, 602, 603

Is not, in England, the means of supporting the authority of the crown, 970, 972

Inefficacy of, to James II., 459-470

When the sovereign looks to the military for the security of his person and authority, the same military laws by which the army is kept together, must be extended over the whole nation, 972

Expenses of, during 1837, pp. 579, 583, 585

ARRAIGNMENT of Prisoners, 776

ARREST-vide PROCESS

Ancient method of, in civil causes, by the English laws, 681-683, 685
Alterations in the English law, 700, 716

By the Roman law, 683-685

ARSON, punishment for the commission of, 1033, 1034, 1036