Blanch rent, il. 43.
B.asphemy, iv. 59.
Blanch-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.

Calais, captain of, his certificate, iil. 384.
Calendar of prisoners, iv. 403.

Calling the plaintiff, iii. 376.
Cancelling deeds, ii. 309.
letters-patent, iii. 46, 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.

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, li
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, 820, 321
Cessavit, writ of, iii. 232.

Cessio bonorum, ii. 473, 483
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. 88.
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. 88.

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. 157.

at play, iv. 173.

Cheek, burning in, iv. 99, 370, 877.

Chester, county palatine of, i. 117.
courts of, iii. 78.

Chevisance, ii. 474.

Chichele, archbishop, vindicated, iv. 113.
Chief baron of the exchequer, iii. 45.
justices, iii. 41.

justiciary of England, iii. 38, iv. 416.
rents, ii. 42.

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. 421, 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. 112.
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.

of pleas, ii. 37.

wrongs, iii. 86.

Cognizee of a fine, ii. 351, iii. 157.
recognizance, ii. 341.

Cognizor of a fine, ii. 350, iii. 157.
recognizance, ii. 341.

Cognovit actionem, iii. 304, 397.

Coin, falsifying, &c., iv. 84, 88, 90, 98, 120.
felonies and misdemeanours relating to, iv
98.

treasons relating to, iv. 84, 88, 90.

Coinage, instruments of, treason relative to, iy
90.

Combinations, iv. 159*.

Combustio domorum, iv. 374.

Commenda, i. 393, iv. 107.

Commerce, king the arbiter of, i. 278.
Commission of array, i. 411.
bankrupt, ii. 480.
lunacy, i. 305.

the peace, i. 351, iv. 270.

to examine witnesses, iii. 383, 438, 449.
take answers in equity, iii. 447.
Commitment of bankrupt, ii. 481.

persons accused, iv. 296.
Committee of council, i. 232.
parliament, i. 183.

peers out of parliament, iii. 56.
lunatic, i. 305.

Common appendant, ii. 33.
appurtenant, ib.

bail, iii. 287.

barretor, iv. 134.

because of vicinage, ii. 33.
bench, court of, iii. 37.

justices of, killing them, iv. 84.
disturbance of, iii. 237.

estate in, ii. 191, 399.

farrier, &c., action against, iii. 165.
form, proof of will in, ii. 508.
in gross, ii. 34.

informer, iii. 161.

jury, iii. 358.

law, i. 63, 67, iv. 411, 412.

corporation by, i. 472.
dower by, ii. 132.
guardian by, i. 461.
nuisance, iv. 166.
of estovers, ii. 85.

pasture, ii. 33.
piscary, ii. 34.

turbary, ib.

pleas, iii. 40.

court of, iii. 37.

Confiscation, i. 299, iv. 377.

Confusion, property by, ii. 405.

Conge d'eslire, i. 379, 882, iv. 421.

Conjugal rights, restitution of, iii. 94.
subtraction of, iii. 94.

Conjuration, iv. 60, 436.

Conquest, Norman, i. 199, iv. 414, 415
or acquisition, ii. 48, 242.
victory, i. 103, 107.
Consanguineus frater, ii. 232.
Consanguinity, i. 434, ii. 202.

table of, ii. 203.

Conscience, courts, of, iii. 81, iv. 441.

Consecration of bishops, i. 880, iv. 115.
Consequential damages, action for, iii. 154

scold, iv. 168.

seal, i. 475.

surcharge of, iii. 237.

tenant in, of lands, ii. 191, app. 6.

chattels personal, ii. 399.

vouchee, ii. 359, app. 18, 19.
utterer of false money, iv. 100.
ways, ii. 35.

without stint, ii. 34.

Commonalty, i. 403.

Commons, house of, i. 158.

Commonwealth, offences against, iv. 127.
Commorancy, iv. 273.

Communem legem, writ of entry ad, iii. 183.
Communion of goods, ii. 3.

Commutation of penance, iv. 106, 217, 276.
Compact, i. 45.

Compassing the death of the king, &c., iv. 76.
Compensatio, iii. 305.

Competent witnesses, iii. 869.

Composition, real, for tithes, ii. 28.

with creditors, ii. 484.

Compound larceny, iv. 239.
Compounding felony, iv. 134

of truce and safe-conducts, iv. 69.
Consideration of contracts, ii. 445.

of deeds, ii. 296, app. 2, 4.

Consideratum est per curiam, iii. 396.
Consilium, or imparlance, iv. 364.

Consimili casu, writ of entry in, iii. 183.

Consistory court, iii. 64.

Consort, queen, i. 219.

Conspiracy, iv. 186.

action of, iii. 126.

Constable, i. 855, 411, iv. 292.

high, i. 116.

lord high, i. 355, iii. 38, iv. 268.
his court, iii. 68, iv. 268.

Constitution, English, i. 50, 127, 144, 104. 160

213, 217, 234, 237, iii. 60*, iv. 489.
Construction of deeds and wills, ii. 379.

statutes, i. 87.

simple, ii. 465.

special, ib.

Contractu, action ex, iii. 117.

Convention of estates, i. 151, 152.

parliaments, i. 152.

Conventional estates for life, ii. 120.
Conversion, iii. 152.

Conveyances, ii. 9, 293, 309, iv. 430.
Conviction, iv. 362.

summary, iv. 280.
Convocation, i. 279.

3ourt of bishops in, iii. 67.
Coparceners, ii. 187.

Copper coin, counterfeiting, iv. 100.
Copy of indictment, iv. 351.

record of indictment, iii. 126.
Copyhold, ii. 95, 147, iv. 439.
for life, ii. 97.

forfeiture of, ii. 284.

not liable to elegit, iii. 419.
of frank tenure, ii. 100, 149.
inheritance, ii. 97.

turned into frank fee, ii. 368.

Copyrights, ii. 405.

Coronatore eligendo, writ de, i. 347.
exonerando, writ de, i. 348.
Coroner, i. 346, iv. 292, 413.
his court, iv. 274.

Corporate counties, i. 120.
name, i. 474.

Corporation, i. 467, ii. 430.

act, iv. 58, 439.

courts of, iii. 80.

its dissolution, i. 485.
duties, i. 479.

incidents and powers, i. 477.

its lands if dissolved, i. 484, ii. 256.
privileges and disabilities, i. 476.
Corporeal hereditaments, ii. 17.
Corpse, stealing of, ii. 429, iv. 235*.
Corporis juris canonici, i. 82.

juris civilis, i. 81.

Correction, house of, iv. 370, 371, 377.
of apprentices, i. 428.

children, i. 452, 453, iv. 182.

scholars, i. 453, iv. 182.

servants, i. 428, iv. 182.

wife, i. 444.

Corruption of blood, ii. 251, iv. 388, 4 3, 438,

440.

Corse-present, ii. 425.

Counterpart, ii. 296.

Country, trial by the, iii. 849, iv. 349.
County, i. 117, iv. 411.

court, i. 178, 343, iii. 35, iv. 411, 414, 4:6

420, 422, 424, 441.

of Middlesex, iii. 83.
palatine, i. 117, iv. 431.

Court, i. 267, iii. 23, iv. 258, 414.

baron, ii. 90, iii. 33, iv. 411.

Christian, iii. 64.

hand, iii. 323.

leet, iv. 273, 411, 424.

martial, i. 416.

power to erect, i. 267, iii. 24.

Courts, profits of, i. 289.
Craven, iii. 340, iv. 348.

Credible witness, iii. 370.
Crimes, iv. 1, 2, 5.

Criminal conversation, iii. 139
law, iv. 2.

Cross bills, iii. 448.

causes, iii. 451.

remainder, ii. 381.

sign of, in deeds, ii. 305.

Crown, descent of the, i. 191, iv. 418
office, iv. 265, 308.

pleas of the, iv. 2.

Cucking-stool, iv. 168.

Cui ante divortium, writ of, iii. 183.

Cui in vita, writ of, ib.

Cul prit, iv. 339.

Cumberland, theft in, iv. 238
Curate, i. 393.

his salary, iii. 90.

Curator of infants, &c., i. 460.

Curatores viarum, i. 858.
Curfeu, iv. 419, 420.
Curialitas, ii. 126.

Cursing, iv. 59.

Curtesy, tenant by, ii. 126

Custody of idiots and lunatics, i. 308, i. 12.
of temporalities, i. 282, iv. 421.
Custom, ii. 263, 422.

assurances by, ii. 365.

dower by, ii. 132.

general, i. 68, 73.

heriot, ii. 422.

of London, how tried, iii. 334.

Damage to things personal, iii. 153.
Damage-feasant, iii. 6.

Damages, ii. 438, iii. 187, 188.

Dane-lage, i. 65, iv. 412.

Darrein presentment, assize of, iii. 245.

Date of a deed, ii. 304, app. 1, 3, 12, 13.

Day in bank, iii. 277.

court, iii. 316.

of grace, iii. 278.

De bene esse, iii. 383.

De la plus belle, dower, ii. 182.

Deacon, i. 388.

Dead man's part, ii. 518.

Deadly feud, iv. 244.

Deaf, dumb, and blind, i. 304, ii. 497.

Dean and chapter, i. 882.

rural, i. 383.

Deanery, rural, i. 112.

Death, appeal of, iv. 314, 424.

civil, i. 132.

judgment of, iv. app. 4.

Debet et detinet, action in, iii. 156.

Debt, ii. 464, iii. 154.

action of, iii. 154, app. 13.

on amercement, iii. 161.

by law, iii. 160.

escape, iii. 165.

judgment, iii. 160, 421.

on penal statutes, iii. 161.

information of, iii. 261.

public, i. 328, iv. 441.

Debtee executor, iii. 18.

Debtor, refusing to discover his effects, iv. 158.

Debts, priority of, ii. 511.

Deceit, action for, iii. 166*.

of, iii. 165*, 405.

Deforcement, iii. 172.

Deforciant, ii. 350, app. 15, 16, iii. 174.
Degradation of peers, i. 402.

Degrees, conferred by the archbishop, i 381
in writs of entry, iii. 186.

of consanguinity, ii. 206.

how reckoned, ii. 206, 207, 224.
guilt, iv. 34.

Dehors, matter, iii. 387, iv. 390.
Delay of the law, iii. 423.

Delegates, court of, iii. 66, 69.

in academical causes, iii. 85.

Delictum, challenge propter, iii. 863, iv. 35
Deliverance, second, writ of, iii. 150.
Delivery of a deed, ii. 306, app. 3, 12, 13
Demand of lands, ii. app. 18.
Demandant and tenant, ii. app. 18.

Demesne lands, ii. 90.

Demesnes of the crown, i. 286.
Demi-mark, tender of, iii. app. 5.

Demise of the crown, i 188, 249.
Demi-vills, i. 116.

Democracy, i. 49.

Demolishing churches, houses, &c., iv 148
Demurrer, iii. 314, app. 23.

book, iii. 317.

in equity, iii. 446.
to evidence, iii. 372.
indictment, iv. 333.
Denial of rent, iii. 170.
Denizen, i. 374, ii. 249.
Deodand, i. 300.

Departure in pleading, iii. 310.
Depopulatio agrorum, iv. 374.
Depositions, iii. 383.

in chancery, iii. 449.

ecclesiastical courts, iii. 100.

Deprivation, i. 393.

Derelict lands, ii. 262.

Dereliction of property, ii. 9.

Derivative conveyances, ii. 324.

Descender, writ of formedon in, iii. 192

Descent of lands, ii. 201, iv. 413, 42*

Descent of the crown, i. 193, iv 418.

collateral, i. 194.

lineal, i. 193.
rules of, ii. 208.

table of, ii. 240.

Desertion, i. 415, iv. 102.

Detainer, forcible, iii. 179, iv. 148.
unlawful, iii. 151.

Determinable freehold, ii. 121.
Determination of will, ii. 146.

Detinet, action of debt in, iii. 156.

Detinue, action of, iii. 152.

Devastation, ii. 508.

Devise, ii. 373, iv. 430.

Devisee, liable to debts of devisor, ii 87

Die, eat sine, iii. 316, 399.

Diet, excess in, iv. 171.

Diets, i. 147.

Digests, i. 81.

Dignity of the king, i. 241.

Dignities, ii. 37.

Dilapidations, iii. 91.

Dilatory pleas, iii. 301.

Diminishing the coin, iv. 90.
Diminution of record, iv. 390.
Diocese, i. 112.

Direct prerogatives, i. 239.
Directory part of a law, i. 55