Restitution of stolen goods. See Felony.
Riots, routs and unlawful assemblies, iii. 924. Riot, ib.
Rout, 925. Unlawful assembly, ib. What assembly will
be deemed riotous, 927. How far an assembly may become
riotous for want of legal authority, or be excusable by having
such authority, ib. How far the intention with which such
persons assemble together must be unlawful, ib. With what
kind of violence or terror the enterprize must be executed,
928. How far the grievances intended to be redressed must
be of a private nature, 929. How far the execution of an
act in its own nature lawful may make an assembly riotous,
ib. How suppressed and punished by the common law, 930.
By sheriffs, constables, &c. ib. By private persons, ib. How
punished at common law, 931. Form of indictment at com.
mon law for a riot and assault, ib. How suppressed and
panished by statute, 932. How by one justice, ib. How
by two or more, 933. Form of record of a riot on view,
ib. Form of a commitment of rioters upon view, 934. Form
of a precept to the sheriff in the nature of a venire facias to
return a jury, 937. The juror's oath, 938. The form of the
inquisition, ib.
Rivers, navigable, iii. 948. Destroying locks, sluices or other
works on any navigable river felony without benefit of clergy,
ib. Discovering accomplices entitled to pardon, 949. Hun-
dred to answer damages, ib. Costs of action and prosecu
tions to be paid out of the tolls, ib. Penalty on drawing up
flood gates, ib. Penalty on assaulting or threatening the col
lectors of tolls on navigable rivers, 950. Collectors of tolls
authorised to seize such offenders, ib. Penalty on officers
not executing warrants of justices, ib. Forfeitures how dis-
posed of, ib.
Robbery. See Felony, and Hue and Cry.
Rockets. See Fireworks.
Rogues. See Vagrants.
Rum, duty on. See Excise.
Running of goods. See Smuggling.
Sabbath, iii. 951. Fairs and markets prohibited on Sundays,
952. Pastimes on Sundays, ib. Exercising worldly callings
on the Lord's day, 953. Exceptions, 955. Form of warrant
to levy penalty of 20s. for travelling on a Sunday, 958.
Sacrilege. See Felony.
Salary of officers. In what respect chargeable to the poor rate.
See Poor.
Sail cloth. See Manufactures.
Sale by auction, duty on. See Excise.
Salmon. See Fisheries.
Sult. See Excise.
Scabbed horses depasturing on commons. Sce Horses.
Schoolmasters. See Dissenters, Offices, Papists.
for their powers in regard to the correction of
scholars. See Homicide.
Scold (common.) See Nuisance.
Sea banks. See Banks of the Sea.
Seamen, iii. 959. Impressing seamen, ib.
Jurisdiction of courts martial, 960. Privileged from arrest,
ib. Making disturbances on pay days, 961. May set up
trades, 962. Wages in the merchant's service to be agreed
for in writing before voyage, ib. In the merchant's service
deserting, ib. When wages to be paid, 963. Wages of
seamen in the coasting trade to be agreed for before voyage,
ib. In the coasting trade deserting, ib. When wages to be
paid, 964. One apprentice in the trade to the West Indies
to be indentured for every 100 tons, 965. Recovery and
application of penalty, 966. Justices of peace to have ju
risdiction, ib. Combination amongst seamen, ib.
profane swearing. See Swearing.
personating, or Greenwich pensioners, in order to re-
ceive their wages and counterfeiting the wills and powers.
See Felony (without clergy) and Forgery.
Search warrant, iii. 968. General warrants illegal, ib. War-
rants to search particular places may be granted on oath, ib.
Search on bare suspicion to be in the day time only, ib.
Search on positive proof may be in the night, ib. Warrant to
be directed to the constable, 969. Execution of the warrant,
ib. Return of the warrant, 970. Form of a complaiut in
order to obtain a search-warrant, ib. Form of a search-war.
rant on the above complaint, 971.
Se Defendendo. See Homicide.
Seditious practices, iii. 971. Contempts against the king or
his government, ib. Form of indictment for speaking sedi-
tious words against the king, 972. Spreading false news,
973. Pretended prophecies, ib. Administering unlawful oaths,
974. Compulsion no excuse, 975. Accessaries therein, ib.
What shall be deemed an oath, ib. Offences on the high-
seas, ib. Endeavouring to seduce the forces felony without
clergy, ib. Where offences to be tried, ib. Not to be tried
twice for the same offence, 976. Seditious societies suppressed,
ib. What societies deemed unlawful, ib. Exemption, 977.
Freemason, ib. How lodges may be suppressed, ib. Offen-
ders how to be prosecuted, ib. Form of a conviction of an
unlawfull combination and confederacy, ib. Persons per-
mitting seditious meetings in their houses, 979. Power of
justices to search, ib. Debating societies and lecture robus
regulated, b. Master of the house liable, 980. Justices
may demand admittance, ib. How debating or lecture rooms
may be licensed, ib. Justices may enter licensed places, $81.
Alehouse licence to be forfeited if house used as a debating
or lecture room, ib. Every alehouse to be deemed licensed for
reading, ib. Form of adjudication of forfeiture of licence to
sell ale, ib. Not to extend to the universities, inns of court,
Gresham college, or schoolmasters, 982. Printers to give
notice to the clerk of the peace, ib. Letter-founders are to
give like notice, 983. Form of notice to the clerk of the
peace that any person keeps any printing press or types for
printing, ib. Form of certificate that notice hath been given
of a printing press or types for printing, ib. An account
of types and presses sold to be kept. 984. The names and
plices of abode of the printer to be printed on every paper
and book, ib. Papers printed by the authority of parliament
excepted, ib. Printers to keep copies of what they print, and
to pisat thereon the name and place of abode of his employ.
er, ib. Persons selling printed papers without the name
and abode of the printer, to be taken before a justice, ib,
Not to extend to engravings, newspapers or printing names
and addresses, 985. Suspected places may be searched,
ib. Penalties, how to be recovered, ib. General form of a
conviction, ib. Form of notice to the clerk of the peace
that any person carries on the business of a letter founder,
or maker or seller of types or of printing presses, 986.
Form of a certificate that the above notice has been given,
ib.
Seizure of felon's goods, iii. 987.
Self murder. See Homicide.
Servants, in. 989.
1. Hiring servants, iii. 989. Verbal hiring good, ib. For
what time hiring may be, 990. Married persons, 2. lu
fants, ib. Servants falling sick, ib.
2. Character of servant, iii. 990. No action lies against a
master for words spoken in giving a servant's character,990.
Master not compellable to give a character, ib. Giving ser-
vants a false character, ib.
3. Manner of compelling persons to serve the term for which
they must serve and the hours of labour, iii. 993. Women
may be compelled to serve, 993. For what time servants are
to be hired in trades, ib. Who may be compelled to serve
in trades, ib. Discharging such servants, 994. Who com.
pellable to serve in husbandry, ib. Discharging such servants,
ib. Punishment of a servant not doing his duty or departing,
tb. Or leaving work unfinished when taken by the piece, 995.
Time of working for labourers, ib. Not to depart without
a testimonial, ib. Form of testimonial, ib. What persons
are compellable to work in harvest time, 996. Recovery
of penalties, ib. Servants fleeing into other counties, 997.
4. Wages of servants, iii. 997. Justices power to limit wages
of servants, 997. Rates to be proclaimed, ib. And filed
among records, ib. Giving more than the allowed wages,
999. Taking more wages than allowed, ib. Paying less, it.
How wages may be recovered, ib. Form of the complaint of
wages due, 1000. Summons of the master thereon, ib. Form
of order for payment of wages, 1001. Form of the warrant
of distress, ib.. Over what servants the justices have juris-
diction by the statutes, 1003. Order of payment of wages
to shew that the justices have jurisdiction, 1004. Bringing
an action for wages, 1005...
5. Misbehaviour of servants and differences between them and
their masters, iii. 1005. Servant's assaulting his master,
1005. Complaint of masters against their servants, 1006.
Form of complaint against a servant for misbehaviour, ib.
Form of a warrant on the above complaint, ib. Form of
the commitment, 1007. Form of abatement of wages, ib.
Form of the discharge, 1008. Complaints of servants agaiust
their masters, ib. Form of the complaint of a servant against
his master for ill usage, ib. Summons of the master, 1009.
Form of the discharge of the servant, ib. Soliciting servants
to steal, 1011. How far a master is justified in turning off
a servant without the intervention of a magistrate, ib.
6. The authority of a master over his servant and the interest
which he has in his service, iii. 1014. How far a master
may justify beating a servant, ib. What a master or servant
may justify doing in each other's defence, ib. * The master's re-
medy against others for enticing away and other injuries done
to his servant, 1015.
7. For what acts of the servant the master shall answer, iii.
1018.
Servants, Duty on. See Taxes.
Sessions, iii. 1020. Nature of the sessions of the peace, ib.
General quarter sessions, ib. General sessions, ib. Petit or
special sessions, ib. Sessions considered as one day, 1021.
At what time held, ib. Where sessions may be holden, ik.
Who may act as solicitors at sessions, 1022. How summon-
ed, ib. Who ought to attend the sessions, 1024. Persons
→ privileged from arrests during their attendance on the sessions,
1025. Proceedings at sessions, 1026. Justices power to
bind offenders over to the sessions, ib. Sessions cannot award
an attachment for contempt, 1027. What authority the
sessions hath over its fellow justices, 1027. Manner of pro-
ceeding at the sessions, ib. Courts equally divided, 1029.
Whether matters may be referred at sessions, 1030. Prison-
*ers discharged may be conveyed by pass, 1039. Adjourn
*ment of sessions, 1040. Justices fees for sitting in sessions,
ib. Form of precept to summon sessions, ib.
Settlements and removals, iv. 1.
I. Settlement of the poor, iv. 1.
1. Settlement by birth, iv. 2.
Bastards settled
Bastards born
Bastards born
Settlement by birth of bastards, iv. 2.
where born, ib. Exceptions to the rule, ib.
in a place, by fraud and contrivance, ib.
after removal, and pending an appeal, 3. Bastard born
while the mother is removing, ib. Bastards born after an or-
der, but before an actual removal, 4. Mother returning
after removal, ib. Mother delivered of a child in another
parish, being sent by her own parish officers without fraud
in order to find the father, ib. Bastards born in gaol, ib.
Bastards born in the house of industry, 5. Bastards born
of a vagrant mother, ib. Bastards born in lying.inn hos.
pitals, ib. Child of a second marriage, the first husband
living, settled where born, ib. Bastard born under a cer-
tificate, 6. Bastard under a certificate from a benefit so-
ciety, 9. Bastards under seven years may be sent with the
mother to her place of settlement for nurture, ib. Order
of maintenance not conclusive as to the settlement of a
bastard, 10.
ii. Settlement by birth of legitimate children, iv. 10. How
far legitimate children, settled where born, 10.
iii. How the settlement by birth may be proved, 10.
2. Settlement by parentage, iv. 12. Legitimate children have
the parish settlement, 12. Children dropped, b. Child born an
ideot, ib. Child born after the death of father, 13. Chil
dren born in father's lifetime, ib. Father gaining a new
settlement, 14. The primary settlement of the parent being
proved in a parish to which the children are removed, it is
incumbent on that parish to prove a subsequent settlement,
16. If the father has no settlement, the child must go to
the mother's, 18. Mother having a settlement during the
life of the husband, 20. At what age children may become
emancipated from their parents,and gain settlements for them-
selves, 21. What shall be called an emancipation, ib.
3. Settlement by apprenticeship, iv.
settlement by apprenticeship, 37.
binding, 38. To be by deed, 39.
Statutes relative to
What will be a good
Deed to be daly stamp.
ed, 41. Master signing a counterpart not essential to the
validity of the indenture. 51. Apprentice not signing the
indenture, 52. Two justices assenting separately, 53.
Evidence of apprenticeship, ib. flow far the counterpart
of an indenture is evidence of the binding, 56. An ap-
prentice must reside forty days as an apprentice under
the indentures to gain a settlement. 57. Place of ser-
vice, 59. Casual residence in a parish by reason of sick-
ness, 62. Discharge of indentures, 64. Master dying, 66.
Apprentice under age cannot consent to his discharge, 68.
|
