disobeying orders, ib. Secretary of state to issue warrants, to conduct aliens out of the kingdom, ib. Declaration by masters of vessels of aliens on board, ib. Not to land aliens till declaration made, ib. Penalty on masters landing aliens, 99. Vessels forfeited, ib. Penalty on neglect to make de claration, ib. Arms brought by aliens may be seized, 100. Not to depart from the place of arrival without passport, ib. Passports may be refused, ib. Aliens changing their abode to obtain passports, 101. Magistrates may require passports to be exhibited, ib. Penalty on forging pass- ports, ib. Penalty on being found at large without licence, 103. If licence refused, party to be committed, ib. If out of the district, licence forfeited, ib. Fresh licence granted, if licence lost, ib. Not to quit the realm without passport. Pe- nalty on masters of ships taking aliens on board, 101. Aliens not to be arrested for debts contracted abroad, ib. Aliens may be transported, 106. If aliens escape after sentence, or be found at large, death, ib. Continuance of act, 107. Persons exempt from the act, 105.
Aliens, ii. 331, 338.
Allegiance, oath of, iii. 480.
Almanack. See Stamps.
Amendment of matters of form at sessions, iii. 1029. iv. 400.
Amercement, i. 672. 674. iii. 157.
Anatomising murderers, ii. 855.
Animals, larceny of, ii. 332, 333.
Animals, vicious, iii. 470.
Animus furandi, ii. 326.
Annuities, i. 107.
Apothecaries, iii. 647. See Physicians, Apparel, injuring of, ii. 349.
Appeal, i. 107. Different natures of appeal, 108. Capital or not capital, ib. Of death, king cannot pardon, ib. Of ar. son, of larceny, 109. Of rape, ib. Of mayhem, ib. what court to be brought, ib. Who may appeal, 110. Within what time, 111. Where tried, ib. After acquittal cannot be indicted, 112. Sume judgment as on an indict. ment, 113. To the sessions, iv. 399.
Apples and pears by what measure to be sold, iv. 1115. See Weights and Measures.
Apprentices, i. 114. Who may take apprentices, 115. Must be bound by indenture, ib. Binding to a master who is an infant, 116. Who may bind themselves, ib. Persons allow ed to take apprentices, 119. In husbandry, ib. In cities and corporations, ib. In towns not corporate, 120. In any place whatever, ib. Jurisdiction of justices of peace to bind out apprentices, 128. Binding out poor children, ib. Form of indentures and other proceedings thereon, ib. Who
are compelled to take apprentices, 127. Power of justice to bind out children of poor persons apprentices to the sea service, 135. Who may be bound, ib. Age to be inserted in the indenture, ib. Fee to be paid the master, ib. Pri vileged from being impressed, ib. Who obliged to take ap prentices, ib. Master dying, 137. Master to enter the num ber of apprentices ib. Register to be kept by the collector, ib. Usage of apprentices, ib. Power of justices in hinding poor children apprentices to chimney sweepers, ib. Form of indenture, 138. Register of apprentices bound by the, overseers to be kept, 141. Penalty for neglect, 142. Ea tries to be inspected, ib. Form of register, 143. The au thority of the master over his apprentice, and the interest he has in his service, 144. Correcting apprentices, ib. Ea- ticing them away, ib. Impressing apprentices, 145. Ab. senting themselves, 146. Assigning and turning over ap prentices to other masters, 147. Form of assignment, ib. Death of the master before the expiration of the apprentice- ship, 149. Covenants for maintenance of parish apprentices how long in force, 151. Within three months justices may order apprentices to serve the residue of their time, forms of proceedings, 152. Master becoming bankrupt, 153. As thority of justices in discharging apprentices, and compelling masters to refund, 155. Form of proceedings thereon, 1, What apprentices may be discharged, 160. For what, 161. How discharged,ib. Complaint of apprentice against the mas ter, 165. Master against the apprentice, ib. Master to re- fund, ib. Proceedings thereon, ib. Justices may order ap prentices clothes to be delivered up, and money paid to place him out again, 167. May compel parish officers to prose. cute masters, ib. Masters of certain apprentices may be aned, 168. Justices may discharge apprentices, 169. Proceedings thereon, ib. Charitable donation for binding apprentices, 170. Stamp duty upon indentures, 171. Necessity of serving an apprenticeship as a qualification to set up a trade, 173. Form of indictment for exercising a trade, 174. What shall be sufficient service, 177. Penalty on apprentice en- listing as a soldier, iv. 587. Masters to entitle them to claim apprentices to make oath, ib. Form thereof, s. Masters giving up indentures to receive part of the bounty, 588. Apprentices claimed, to be carried before a justice and committed, ib.
Approvement in felony and treason, i. 179.
Approvers, i. 179. See Pardon.
Aquavita. See Excise.
Arrack. See Excise.
Army. See Militia and Soldiers.
Armorial bearings. See Assessed Taxes.
Array, challenge of, iii. 95,
Arrest, i. 184. In criminal cases who may be arrested, ib. In what cases private persons are enjoined by law to arrest offenders, 185. In what cases private persons are permitted to arrest, and what will justify their making an arrest, 186. Arrest in pre- What are sufficient causes of suspicion, ib. vention of crimes, 187. What public officers may arrest, ib. By justices of peace, 188. By sheriffs, ib. By coron- ers, ib. By constables in case of felony, 189. Iu felonies, 190. By bailiffs of towns, 192. By watchmen, ib. Ar. rests under a warrant, in what cases a justice may grant a Form of warrant, the form, and to whom directed, 193. How warrant to be executed, 198. warrant, 195. ders escaping into another county, ib. Backing warrant and form thereof, ib. Warrant to be immediately ex- ecuted, 199. Manner of arresting, 200. Charging offend ers already in custody, ib. Suffering the party to go at large, cannot retake him upon the same warrant, 200. Execution of search warrant, 201. Resisting the arrest, 203. Where doors may be broke open to make arrest, 206. What is to be done with the prisoner, 209.
Arrest of judgment, iii. 74.
Arson, ii. 370. See Felony.
Articles of the peace, iv. 709.
Artificers. See Manufactures, and Manufacturers. Assaults and Batterie, i 211.
What is decraed an assault, In what cases may be ib. What is deemed a battery, 212. justified, 213. How to be justified, 214. In what manner punished, 215. Different kinds of assaults, 220. Indict- With intent to rob, ii. 335. ment for an assault, ib.
Form of warrant for an assault, i. 221. Indictment for a The like with intent to commit a common assault, ib.
Assembly, riotous or unlawful, iii. 925.
Assessed taxes, iv. 739. Table of the duties, iv. 740. Duties on windows, 741. Rules for charging, 743. Exemptions Duties on servants, 748. from. Duties on houses, 745. Duties on carriages, 752. Duties on horses, class 1. 755. Duties on horses, class 2. 759, Duties on dogs, 792. Duties on horse dealers, 763. Duty on hair powder, ib. Duty on armorial bearings, 764. Allowance in respect of children, 766. What persons shall be commissioners for managing the assessed taxes, iv. 768. Powers and qualifi- cation of commissioners, 5. The first meeting of the commissioners to appoint the respective subdivisions, and issue precepts for the appearance of assessors, 774. The second meeting to appoint assessors, and deliver the charge, 775. Appointment of assessors, ib. Manner of making the assessments, and of the authority of the surveyors and
inspectors. 782. Assessing the duties on windows and houses, ib. Assessing the duties on servants—carriages- horses-dogs-horse dealers-hair powder-armorial heat. ings and coach makers, 788. The third meeting to sign the assessment, and warrant to collect, 804. The fourth meeting, hearing and determining appeals, 808. How the rates shall be collected and paid over to the receiver general, 815. Receiver-general to pay the money into the exchequer, 828. Transmitting duplicates of the assessments to the receir. er-general, and into the exchequer, 829. Indemnity of officers doing their duty, and of their punishment for mis behaviour, 831. Recovery of the penalties, 835. General clauses not reducible to any head, 837 Assignees of bankrupt. See Bankrupt. Assignment of Bankrupt's effects. See Bankrupt. Assizes, i. 221, Commissions under which the 222. Where the assizes are to be held, 224. the peace, and sheriffs bound to attend, 226. Assize of bread, i. 356.
Attachment, i. 226. Sessions cannot award an attachment for
a contempt, ib.
Attainder, i. 228.
Attaint, i. 230. See Jurors.
Attainted persons, i. 228.
Attempt to rob, i. 220.
Attorney, i. 231. Who are capable of acting as attornies, ib, To be bound five years, 232. Admission, ib. Oaths there. on, ib. Penalty on acting before admitted, ib. Papists may act, 233. Licence to be taken out, ib. Penalty on acting without certificate, 234. Clerks articled to attornies, 237. Stamp duty on articles, ib. Must serve five years, 238. Duty of an attorney, and his power, 239. Not obliged to appear for a defendant, ib. Not to become bail in civil suits, ib. May be bail in criminal cases, ib. Remedy for his fees, 245. Privileges of an attorney, 246. As to courts of conscience, 247. When privilege lost, 248. How pun ished for misdemeanors, ib. No attorney to act as justice of peace, 236. Officers of franchises not to act, 235 No attorney to act as under sheriff, ib. Persons convicted of forgery not to act, 236. No attorney under confinement to sue, ib. Clerk of the peace, and under sheriffs not to act in sessions, ib.
Avowry, what, i. 714. See Distress.
Auctions and auctioneers. See Excise.
Backing warrants, i. 198,679. iii.138. See Warrant and Arrest. Bail, what, i. 252. Difference between bail and mainprize, ib. Bail may take up the party, ib. Where a person may be discharged without bail, ib. In what cases bail is grantable, 253. Who may be bailed, ib. Offences not bailable at common law, 254. Homicide, ib. Commitments by the king, 255. By his justices, 256. For the forest, ib. Of fences not bailable by the statute, ib. Persons who may be bailed, 258. Where bail may be taken by a justice of peace, 260. Two justices to take bail in felonies, 261. Where one may, 262. Where by justices of goal.delivery, 263. Where by the court of King's Bench, ib. Where by the other courts at Westminster, 266. What shall be deemed sufficient bail, ib. Taking insufficient bail, 267. Grant- ing bail where it ought to be denied, ib. Denying, delay. ing or obstructing bail, where it ought to be granted, 269. In what form to be taken, ib.
personating bail. See Felony. Bailiff of sheriffs, iv. 463.
Baker, See Bread.
Ballast from ships not to be thrown into rivers, ii. 721. Ballast lighters, convicts to be sent to, 426.
Banks, destroying sea banks, i. 306. ii. 375. See Felony. Bank of England, ii. 375. Frauds by servants thereof, ii. -"409.
Bankrupt, etymology, i. 272. What business a man must pursue before he can be adjudged a bankrupt, 273. Acts of bank- ruptey,279. The commission and manner of executing it, 283. Power of the commissioners, 285. Proof of debts, 288. The assignees, 291. The commissioners assignment, 293., The bankrupt's examination, 295.. The certificate, 300. The divi- dend and allowance to the bankrupt in respect thereof, 302. The supersedeas, 305. Respecting suits at law and equity, ib.
Baron and feme,as accessaries, i. 15. Baron and feme in ge neral iv. 1119.
Barretry, i. 309. Form of an indictment for common barretry,
i. 3111. C Bastard, i. 311.-who are bastards and their rights and incapa cities, 312. Who though born in marriage, ib. Wife,evidence of non-access inadmissible, 312. Their rights and incapacities, 315. How bastards are to be provided for, and the duty and power of a justice of peace, 316, Compelling the reputed fa ther to indemnify the parish, ib. Form of the proceedings in bastardy, 316. 318. 319. 320. 321. Order of filiation and maintenance, 324. Power of two justices, 329. Place of
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