and resemblance to some of the modern doctrines of our English law may be collected from Cæsar's account of the tenets and discipline of the ancient Druids in Gaul, who were sent over to Britain to be instructed? 408.

2. Why is it impossible to trace out when the several mutations of the common law were made; and whence the great variety of our ancient established customs? 408-410.

3. What did Alfred for the constitution and laws? 410, 411.

4. What was the Dane-lage, what the WestSaxon-lage, and what the Mercen-lage? 412. 5. What did Edgar; and what is the most probable original of the common law? 412.

6. What nine may be reckoned among the most remarkable of the Saxon laws? 412-414. 7. What five alterations in our laws did the Norman invasion work? 415-418.

8. What did William Rufus; and what did Henry I. 420, 421.

9. What did Stephen? 421.

10. What did Henry II.; and what four things peculiarly merit the attention of the legal antiquary in the reign of this king? 421-423.

11. What did Richard I.? 423.

12. What did John and Henry III.; and what were the effects of magna carta and carta de foresta? 428-425.

17. What did the Reformation effect; and what was done with regard also to our civil polity by Henry VIII.? 430, 431.

18. What did Edward VI. and Mary? 431, 432.

19. What did Elizabeth for the religious liberties of the nation; and what for the political 432-435.

20. What did James I.? 436.

21. What did Charles I.? 436-438.

22. What was done upon the restoration of Charles II.? 438-440.

23. What has been done from the revolution in 1688 to the present time; and what have been the chief alterations of moment in the administration of private justice during that period 440-442. 709

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, 377.
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. 84.
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. 431.
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.

Ceodal, 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. 188.
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. 131.
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. 331.

Agistment, ii. 452.

Agnati, ii, 235.

Agnus Dei, &c., iv 115.

Agriculture, its original, ii. 7.

Aid-prayer, iii. 300.

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

parliamentary, i. 308.

Air, right to, ii. 14.

Albinatus jus, i. 372, 373.

Alderman, i. 116.

Alderney, island of, i. 106.

Alehouses, iv. 64, 167.

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

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

Alienation, i. 287.

fine for, ii. 71, iv. 418.

forfeiture by, ii. 268.

Alien priories, i. 386, iv. 113.

Aliens, i. 866, 371, ii. 249, 274, 293, iv. 111.

duy, i. 316, 372, 374.
Alimony, i. 441, iii. 94.
Allegation, iii. 100.
Allegiance, i. 366, iv. 74.
local, i. 870.
natural, i. 369.

cath of, i. 867, 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. 8333.

Alteration of deeds, ii. 308.

Amended bill in equity, iii. 448.

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

commission of, i. 411.

Arrest of judgment, iii. 398, app. 11, iv. 870

of persons, iii. 288, iv. 289.

seamen and soldiers, i. 421.

Arson, iv. 220.

appeal of, iv. 814.

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. 21
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. 312.

Assets, ii. 510.

by descent, or real, ii. 244, 302, 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. 25.

estate, ii. 326.
reversions, iii. 158.

Assigns, ii. 289.

Assize, certificate of, iii 889.

commission of, iii. 59, iv. 269 424.
court of, iii. 58.

general, i. 148.

grand, iii. 341, 351, app. 5, iv. 422
justices of, iii. 59, iv 269.

killing them, iv. 84.

of arms, i. 411, ii. 66.

bread, breaking, iv. 157.
rent of, ii. 42.

turned into a jury, iii. 408.
writ of, iii. 184, iv. 422.
Association, writ of, iii. 59.
Assumpsit, express, iii. 158.

Bank, misbehaviour of its officers, Iv. 284
Bankrupt, ii. 471, iv. 481, 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. 483.

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
eignè, 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. 837, app. 8, iv. 846, 418

422, 424.

Aulnager, i. 275.

Avowry, iii. 150.

Aurum regins, i. 221.

Auter droit, ii. 177.

Auterfoits acquit, iv. 335.
attaint, iv. 336.
convict, ib.

Auter vie, tenant pur, ii. 120.
Authorities in law, i. 72.

Award, iii. 16.

Ayle, writ of, iii. 186.

Bachelor, knight,

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. 88.
Bailment, ii. 396, 451.
Bail-piece, iii. 291, app. 20.
Ballot for jurors, iii. 358.
Balnearii, iv. 239.

Banishment, i. 137, iv. 377, 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.

Benefit of clergy, iv. 833, 865, 413, 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. 846
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. 234.

Billa vera, iv. 306.

Bishop, 155, 377, 401.

certificate of, iii. 335.

not electing or consecrating, iv. 115.

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

Bishoprics, nomination to, i. 878, iv. 108, 116,

415, 430.

Bissextile year, ii. 140.

Black act, iii. 161, iv. 144, 207, 235, 245.

lead, stealing of, iv. 234.

maile. ii. 43, iv. 244.