LIBELS, continued.

lunatics, bankrupts, outlaws and persons convicted, &c.
for printing or publishing libels, disqualified from
printing newspapers, &c. II. 668

LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS

personal security, liberty and property, asserted by Great
Charter, petition of right, bill of rights, and habeas
corpus act, &c. I. 1 to 10

arbitrary imprisonments and exactions restrained, I.
7 to 10

right of applying to courts of justice for redress of inju-
ries asserted; and not to be obstructed by prerogative,
I, 11. Ad. I. 2, 3.70

king cannot suspend or dispense with laws, I. 11. Ad. I. s
right of petitioning for redress of grievances asserted, I.

11

right of carrying arms vindicated, I. 11

laws of England declared to be the birthright of the
people, I. 12

LIBRARIES.

See COPYRIght.

LIFE ESTATES.

See ABSENCE, APPORTIONMENT, AUTER
VIE, CURTESY, DOWER, EMBLEMENTS, RENTS,
TREES, &c.

LIME. See FISH.

LIMITATION

for penal actions, &c. II. 117

for making entries into lands, II. 122

for writs of assize and writs of entry, or other actions
possessory; or for avowries, II. 130

for writs of formedon, II. 131

for writ of right or making prescription, II. 133
for actions against officers, II. 148, 9

for actions personal, 11. 222, 3, 4

in the admiralty, II. 223

for writs of error, II. 289

no limitation for writ of right of advowson, quare impedit,
assize of darrein presentment or jure patronatus, II.
163. Ad. I. 68

See EJECTMENT, KING, and particular heads of offences.
LINEN. See FORGERY, LARCENY, MISCHIEF.

LIPS. See MAIMING.

LITANY AND LITURGY. See Book Of Common PrAY-
ER, ECCLESIASTICAL PERSONS.

LITTLE GOES. See LOTTERIES.

LIVERY. See MAINTENANCE.

LIVERY OF SEISIN. See LEASES.

LOANS. See FORGERY.

LORDS' ACT. See INSOLVENTS, (II. 295)
LORDS COMMISSIONERS. See CHANCELLOR.
LORD KEEPER. See Chancellor.

LORD'S DAY. See SUNDAY.

LORDS JUSTICES

elected upon death of chief governor of Ireland. II.
1245

LOTTERIES

public nusances, and patents, &c. for them void, II. 802
penalty for opening such, or playing, &c. at them, II.

802

justices, &c. to suppress them; and penalty for setting
up or publishing them, II. 803
penalty for setting up, &c. offices for insurances on mar-
riages, births, &c. or for sales of houses, or the like
offices; or adventuring therein, II. 803 to 808

what games included within the acts against lotteries, II.
805, 7. 815

penalties for offences concerning lotteries how recovered,
II. 809

persons setting up, &c. offices for dealing in tickets or
shares in state lottery without license; or persons (li-
censed or unlicensed) selling chances of tickets for
less than the whole time of drawing of the state lottery,
or insuring, &c. or in whose premises papers relating
to insurance are found; or selling any other tickets, or
shares of tickets, or publishing any scheme for the sale
of any ticket or share in any lottery except such as
authorized by act of parliament,deemed rogues and va-
gabonds,and how punished, &c. II. 809 to 816. Ad. II.
434 to 437

penalty for setting up lotteries by colour of grant from
any foreign prince or state; or for selling or insuring,
&c. tickets in any foreign or pretended foreign lottery,
or duplicate lottery, II. 817

See FORGERY, GAMING.

LUNATICS

the king to provide that their lands, &c. shall be kept
without waste, I. 190

private mad-houses restrained and regulated, I. 190
lunatic asylums erected, &c. by justices at quarter scs-
sions in England, and by grand juries in Ireland, I.
191. 286. Ad. I. 11. Ad. II. 85.

their marriages void, I. 406. Ad. I. 31

what acts may be done by courts of equity in respect of
their estates, II. 332, 3. 345, 6.348, 9. 350, 1

justices of peace may commit dangerons persons sus-
pected to be insane, II. 1103

proceeding as to such insane persons as threaten the
personal safety of his majesty, II. 1104, 5

persons found insane upon arraignment or trial for any
offence how disposed of, Ad. I. 144, 5 Ad. II. 485

MAGNA CHARTA, See LIBERTIES.

MAGPIES. See GAME.

MAIL ROBBERY. See LARCENY.
MAIMING,

cutting tongues, putting out eyes, and cutting off ears,
how punished by ancient statutes, II. 908

cutting, &c. tongue, eye, nose, or lip, or other member,
by lying in wait with intention to maim or disfigure, a
capital felony, II. 908, 9

maliciously, &c. stabbing or cutting with intent to mur-
der, rob, maim, disfigure or disable, &c. or to resist,
&c. the apprehension of such person for some offence,
a capital felony, II.909, 910
See ASSEMBLIES, MISCHIEF.
MAINTENANCE OF BASTARDS.
MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN.

See BASTARDS.
See CHILDREN.

MAINTENANCE OF SUITS AND QUARRELS,

no clerk of the king or of any justice shall receive pre-
sentment to any church, pending suits in king's court,
II. 600, 3

barretors or maintainers of quarrels shall not be suffered
by the sheriff, as attornies to make suit or to give
judgments in county courts, &c. II. 600

maintenance of suits by persons great or small prohibited,
and how punished, Ad. I. 153. II. 602

king's counsellors, &c. prohibited to maintain quarrels or
parties, II. 500. Ad. I. 153

no liveries to be given for maintenance of quarrels, &c.
11. 601

penalty on persons receiving livery or wages, and on lords,
&c. retaining any except stewards, counsel, or menial
servants, &c. II. 603

maintaining the quarrels of lords, &c. or using the party
words Cromabo" "Butlerabo" how punished, II.

603

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF, See ASSEMBLIES, MISCHIEF.
MALICIOUS SUIT. See BARRETRY.

MALLARD. See GAME.

MALT,

duty on, a branch of the revenue, I. 192. Ad. II. 38
See ADULTERATION.

MANDAMUS,

to admit or restore to office or franchise in corporation,
return to first writ of; and pleading, &c. thereon, II.
179, 180

to cities, &c. for election of mayors, &c. on a day different
from charter day; and to lords, &c. for holding courts
wherein mayors, &c. are to be nominated or sworn in,
II. 180, 1

MANDAMUS continued.

where it issues to compel the admission of a freeman, &c.
costs of obtaining and enforcing rule paid by mayor,
&c. II. 181. Ad. I. 68

freemen to be admitted to inspect entries of admission,
&c. and to take copies or extracts, II. 182

for admission of burgess or freeman to be sued in 7 years
after entry of election, Ad. I. 69

mayors, &c. shall furnish "freemen, &c. upon demand, with
copy of the entries of admission of freemen, Ad. I. 69
See QUO WARRANTO.

MANOR COURTS,

process of in what form, and for what sums, II. 69, 70, 2
seneschals, &c. may summon juries and witnesses; ad-
minister oaths; proceeding as to decree and execution,
and costs thereof, II. 70, 1, 2

title to lands not to be drawn into question, II. 71
appeal to judges of assize shall be final, II. 71

seneschals to keep court book, and deliver duplicate at
sessions, II. 72

bailiff or marshal to give security, II. 72

fees of officers; no stamp on proceedings, II. 71, 2
copy or abstract of clauses of patents from rolls' office,
&c. respecting their jurisdiction, evidence thereof on
appeals, Ad. I. 62

attested copy lodged with clerk of the peace, and pro-
duced to judge of assize, Ad. I. 62

upon appeals original summons and decree produced,
Ad. I. 62, 3

MANSLAUGHTER,

by stabbing or thrusting a person who dies thereof within
6 months, a capital felony, though no malice proved,
II. 902

See HOMICIDE, Murder.
MANUFACTURERS.

See ARTIFICERS, COMBINATION.

MANUFACTURES. See MISCHIEF.

MARINE FElonies.

PIRACY.

MARINE FORCES,

See ADMIRALTY, INDICTMENT,

annual act for their regulation while on shore, I. 885.
Ad. II. 168

MARINERS WANDERING. See WANDERING Soldiers,

&c.

MARITIME COURT. See ADMIRALTY COURT.
MARKETS,

clerk of, in king's household shall only execute his office
within the verge; and head officers of corporations,
&c. according to their liberties: penalties for their de-
fault of duty in respect to sealing weights and mea-
sures, II. 1124, 5, 6

mayor, &c. or person having the benefit of the market,
shall seal all measures where no clerk of the market,
II. 1126

See MEASURES, WEIGHTS.

MARKET JURIES,

how appointed in cities, &c. their oath, duty, powers,
and duration in office, and penalty for refusal to serve,
II. 699. 700

MARQUE AND REPRISAL. See LETTERS OF MARQUE.
MARRIAGE,

good if solemnized and consummate, (notwithstanding pre-
contract,) and not within levitical degrees, I. 402, 3
no suit shall be in any ecclesiastical court to compel a ce-
lebration of marriage by reason of any contract, I. 402.
of minors without consent of parents or guardians, &c.
void, I. 404

if mother or guardian non compos, beyond the seas, or re-
fuses consent, appeal to chancellor by petition, I. 404
of minor, void in Ireland when minor entitled to or parent
possessed of certain estates, if without consent of pa-
rent or guardian: proceeding to annul such marriages
I. 404, 5, 6

of lunatics, void, I. 406. Ad. I. 31

form required for publication of banns; previous notice
to parson, &c. to be in parish church unless by spe-
cial license, &c. otherwise void, 1. 407, 8

residence of parties in parish where banns published, not
to be questioned after solemnization of marriage, I.
409
to be solemnized in presence of two witnesses besides mi-
nister, and a certificate signed by minister, parties, and
witnesses, and registered by churchwardens, I. 409
of royal family, and of quakers and jews ; or in Scotland,
or beyond seas, excepted out of marriage act, I. 409
persons solemnizing matrimony in other place than
church, &c. or without publication of banns, unless by
special license, guilty of felony and transported, 11.

749

forging. &c. marriage register or license of marriage, or
destroying register book, a capital felony, II. 749
popish priest, &c. celebrating marriage between 2 pro-
testants, or protestant and papist, how punished, II,
749, 750, 1 Ad. I. 118

of priests lawful and their children inheritable, I. 411, 2
of the royal family without consent of king, &c, restrain,
ed, I. 154

See ABDUCTION, REGISTER.

MARSHAL. See COURT MILITARY.

MARTIAL LAW,

commissions for executing, declared illegal, I. 4
MARTINS. See GAME.

MARTYRDOM. See ANNIVERSARIES.

MASS. See CATHOLICS.

MASTER AND SERVANT,

for what term artificers, &c. shall be retained: who com-
pellable to serve in trades: who in husbandry, I. 386
penalty for putting away servants without cause, I. 386
penalty for servants refusing to serve, or departing with-