At whose charge and by whom highways ought to be repaired by the common law, ib. At whose charge and by whom the highways ought to be repaired by the force of the statute, 746. A special sessions to be held annually for the highways, 16. Form of warrant for calling a meeting of the householders and of the justices for appointing surveyors, ib. Proceedings and appointment of surveyors, ib. In what manner survey. ors shall be appointed, 748. Penalty on refusing to serve, 751. In what cases justices may appoint a surveyor with a salary, ib. In what cases surveyors are to give bond, 753. Form of bond, ib. Assistant surveyor, ib. Duty of assistant surveyor, 754. Appointment of, ib. Surveyor dying, 755. Duty of surveyors as to nuisances, ib. Form of notice by surveyor to remove nuisances, ib. Form of allowance of charges paid by surveyors to be repaid by possessors of land, and justices order thereon, 756. Highway in two parishes, 757. Allotted parts how repaired, 760. Costs of proceed. ings thereon by justices, ib. Boundaries of counties not to be repaired, ib. Nor highways repairable by corporations, 761. Or tenure, ib. Justices may order what road shall be first repaired, ib. Form of order thereon, ib. How materials are to be procured, ib. Licence from a justice to gather stones, 762. Licence from special sessions to get materials, 763. Surveyor to collect assessments, 766. To keep ac. counts, ib. Allowance of by justices, 767. Succeeding sur veyors may collect arrears, ib. Penalty on surveyor for neg. lect, 768. Statute duty, ib. Sums to be deemed composi tions, 769. Poor persons discharged from payment, ib. Mili tia men exempt, 771. How statute duty is to be performed, ib. Hours of work, ib. Penalty in not sending or refusing to work, ib. Form of notice to perform statute duty, ib. Composition in lieu of duty, 772. Indigent labourers ex empted, ib. Form of order for statute duty in kind, ib.Pew- er of mitigation, 773. Notice of time and place for com. pounding, 775. Rate for defraying extra expences, 776. Form of notice for assessment. ib. Order of sessions thereon, 777. Assessments how levied, 778. Warrant of distress for non-payment of assessment, ib. Highways widened, 779, Or turned by order of two justices, ib. Order of justices thereon, ib. Owner of grounds how satisfied, 780. Cer tificate from the justices to the sessions, 781. How money raised,782. Order for stopping up old highways, ib. Old high- ways stopped up, and land sold, ib. Certificate thereon, 783. Person liable to repair old highway to contribute proportion- ably to repair the new, 784. Order of justices thereon, ib. Owners of ground consenting to exchange of a highway, 786. Order of two justices for diverting a road through lands by con sent, ib. Justices power to stop useless roads, 788. Old foot- ways stopped, 790. Direction posts, mile stones, &c. erected,
790. Precept for erecting guide posts. ib. What shall be deemed a nuisance to the highway, 791. How to be removed, 792. Hedges and ditches adjoining highway, 793. New ditches, 794. Order of justices to make new drains, ib. Trees and bushes to be removed, 795. Laying stones, timber, &c. in the highway, ib. Leaving carriages in, 796. En- croachments, ib. Damaging banks, causeways, direction posts, &c. ib. Number of horses allowed in drawing and breadth of wheels, 797. Sessions may licence additional horses for steep hills, ib. Drivers of carriages misbehaving, 798. Owners name and place of abode on carriages, 799. Collectors of bridge tolls not to keep ale-houses, ib. Reco- very of forfeitures before justices of the peace, 800. Form of proceedings thereon, ib. Offenders living out of the dis- trict, 803. Indemnities against irregular proceedings, 804. Form of notice of appeal to the sessions, 805. Forfeiture recovered by action at law, 806. Limitation of actions for matters under the highway acts, ib. Penalty on persons hindering the execution of the act, ib. How the inhabitants are to hold meetings, 807. Places exempt from the provi- sions of the act, ib. How highways may be presented on the view of a justice of the peace. ib. Form of presentment by a justice, ib. Indictment of highways, 809. To be in the proper county, ib. Must state it to be a common highway, ib. Must set forth how much is out of repair, ib. From and to what places it leads, 810. And places where, ib. fence, 811. Certificate of state of the road before fine set, ib. Giving false certificate indictable, ib. How fines are applied, 812. Costs of prosecution, 813. Precedents of different indictments and pleas relating to the highways, 814. Hiring and service. See Settlements and Removals. Homicide, ii. 823. What. Justifiable homicide, 824. Inde- fence of a man's person, house or goods, 825. In the execu- tion of public justice, 826. In the advancement of public justice, 828. Excusable homicide,829. By misadventure,830. In self-defence, 832. Not bailable, 834. Felonious homi- cide, 835. Self murder, ib. Burial, 837. Manslaughter, 838. Stabbing, 839. Murder, 841. Party must die with- in a year and a day, 843. Murder of bastard children, 845. Punishment of murder, 854. Murder at sea, ib. Judgment, 855. When to be executed, ib. Body to be dissected and anatomised, ib. Sentence to be immediately pronounced, $56. Body hung in chains, ib. How treated after sen. fence, ib. Rescuing murderers, felony, 857. Petit treason, what, 858. Punishment, 850.
Hops, duty on. See Excise, (Hops), and Felony, (without clergy, Black Act).
Horses, duties on carriage and other horses, and on horse dea, lers. See Taxes.
Horses, duties on running horses. See Horse-races.
duties on horses travelling post. See Post-horset.
ii. 861. Breed of horses, 862. Age and height of stoned horses to be put upon commons, ib. Seizure and measuring of horses, ib. Putting scabbed horses upon com mons, 863. Felonies as to horses, ib. Stealing horses, ib. Killing in the night, 864. Maiming in the night, ib. Killing, wounding or maiming, ib. Buying and selling horses in fairs and markets, 865. Horse fair, ib. Toll-takers to be appoint. ed, ib. Hours of taking toll, ib. Buyer and seller to attend, ib. And enter the sale, ib. And price, ib. Sale otherwise void, 866. Horse to be shewed one hour, ib. Book of en. tries, ib. Recovery of penalties, ib. Owner may claim with in six months and afterwards by paying the price, ib. Houses and places for slaughtering horses, 867. Slaughtering houses licensed, ib. Inspectors appointed, ib. Notice of killing or flaying, ib. Inspectors to attend, 868. Hours of slaughter- ing, ib. Account of cattle slaughtered, 869. Persons bring- ing cattle to give an account, ib. Keeping slaughter-houses without licence, felony, 870. Defacing hides, ib. Un-li- censed persons lending slaughter-houses, ib. Persons except ed, ib. Not excepted, ib. Horse-dealers. See Taxes. Horse-races, ii. 871. Regulations concerning horse-races, 872. No person to enter a horse unless his own property, ib. Not more than one horse for the same prize, ib. No prize less than 50l. ib. No match less than 50l. ib. Entrance, ib, Re- covery of penalties, ib. Duty on running horses, 873. Hospitals, how far rateable to the poor, iii. 744. Hospitals. See Lying-in-hospitals.
Hound. Sec Game.
House, immunities of, i. 206. ii. 852.
House duties on. See Taxes.
House-breaking. See Felony, (without clergy.)
House-tax. See Assessed Taxes.
Hue and cry, ii. 874. What, ib. At the common law or suit of the king, ib. By whom to be levied, ib. Form of warrant to levy hue and cry on a robbery, 875. How to be levied, $76. How pursued, ib. What the pursuers may justify in doing, 877. Persons taken on the hue and cry not bailable, $79. Neglect how punished, ib. Hue and cry in pursuance of the statutes, ib. What kind of robbery will make the hen dred liable, 880. When committed, 881. What hundred, ib. By whom action brought, 882. Notice of robbery, ib. Form of notice, 883. Where party must give bond for costs, 885. Cath of robbery, ib. Form of examination of person robbed, ib. When action to be brought, 887. What en dence, il
What shali excuse the hundred, $837 Levying
the money, 880. Costs to be included in the assessment, 890. Within what time assessments to be made, 891. Penalty for not levying, ab. Limitation of damages, ib.
Hundred. See Constable. Fue and Cry.
Hunger, no excuse for stealing, ii. 330.
Hunting. See Game.
Hurdle. See Judgment.
Husband and wife as accessaries, i. 15. Crimes by, ii. 330. Marriage of, ii. 357. iv. 359.
Ideots and lunatics, iii, 1. Ideocy, ib. Lunacy, ib. How found such, 2. Charged with offences and acquitted to be secured, ib. Indicted and arraigned or discharged for want prosecution may be secured, 3. Person suspected to be insane and about to commit a crime may be secured, ib. May be restrained by a justice of the peace, ib. Endeavouring to gain admittance to his majesty, 4. House for the reception of lunatics to be licensed, 5. By the college of physicians, ib. Or the sessions, ib. Idle and disorderly persons. See Vagrants.
Jewels and plate stolen, receivers of. See Felony. Jews to be sworn on the Pentateuch, ii. 757.
Imagining the king's death. Sec Treason.
Impeachment of high treason. See Seditious Practices.
Implied malice. See Homicide.
Importing goods prohibited. See Excise. Smuggling. Impostures, ii. See also Vagrants.
Imprisonment. See Arrest. Commitment. Gaols.
Incendiaries. See Felonies, (without clergy.) See Arson, Incest. See Bawdy houses.
Inclosures, iii. 8. No person to act as commissioner until he has taken the oaths, ib. Commissioner declining to act to give notice, ib. No commissioner to purchase, ib. To enquire the boundaries of parishes and if not ascertained to fix them, 9. Description of boundaries to be delivered to the parishes, ib. Persons dissatisfied may appeal, ib. Surveys, &c. of land, to be inclosed, to be made and kept by the commissioners, 9. Power of entry to make surveys, 10. Claimants to deliver particulars in writing, ib. Commissioners not to determine disputed titles, ib. Before making allotments to appoint pub. lic roads, 11. To be fenced by owners of land on each side, ib. To appoint private roads, 12. Grass and herbage on roads to belong to the proprietors of adjoining lands, ib. Smal!
allotments to be laid together and used in common, 13. Al Jotments to be in bar of all rights. ib. Exchange of lands, ib. Partition and allotment of lands in joint tenants or tenantcy in common,ib. Allotment to be accepted within a limited time, ib.Guardians and trustees may act,ib. Before award lands may be ditched, 14. Trees on allottment to be paid for. Lands in settlement, ib. Refusing to inclose, 15. Penalty on break- ing fences, 16. Expences of act, ib. Witnesses, 18. Award, ib. Accounts, ib. Monies raised to be deposited, 20. Pe nalties, ib. Perjury, 21. Powers of the act, ib.
Inclosures pulling down. See Felony, (within clergy. Incla sures) and Trespass.
Incorporated districts, supporting the poor in, iii. 829. Incorrigible rogues. See Vagrants. Indentures. See Stamps.
Indemnity of officers, iii. 23.
Indictments, iii. 25. What. Presentment, ib. Charges of off cers, ib. The nature of an indictment and how far a prosecu tion at the suit of the king, 26. What offences are indict able, 27. How an indictment may be found, 30. Within what place the offence must arise, 31. How the grand jury may find a bill, 33. Compelling appearance of witnesses be. fore grand jury, ib. The form of an indictment, 31. Cap- tion, ib. Requisite parts of an indictment, 37. Whether defects in an indictment are amendable, 47. Where offence may be laid jointly and where severally, ib. Where an indict. ment may be quashed, 48. Malicious prosecution, 49. Form of recognizance to appear and give evidence, 50. Form of recognizance to prosecute, ib.
Indorsing warrants,i. 198.679.iii. 138. See Arrest,and Warrant, Infants, ii. 51.
Inferior tradesmen Infidels. See Oaths.
Information criminal, iii. 54. The nature and several kinds of informations, 55. In what cases an information will lie, 55. In what manner to be laid, 56. How to be filed and pro- eceded on, ib. To be granted only on motion, ib. Recog nizance to be entered into before filed, 57. Within what time to be tried, ib. Information qui tam, iii. 59. What. In what cases they lie, 60. What ought to be the form of them,ib. In what court they may be brought and where laid, 62. Informations on penal statutes to be prosecuted in the counties where offences com mitted, ib. Process, 63. Within what time to be brought, 65. What persons are disabled to bring such an information or action, 66. Whether there may be a nonsuit, 67. In what cases costs, ib. Against the plaintiff, ib. Against the defendant, ib. How defendant way plead, 68. Paying mo ney into court, 70. Whether the penalty of a penal statute may be compounded, 70.
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