Special tail, ii 113 relief in equity, iii 438 Spiriting away men and children, iv 219 court, iii 61 in general, ib 61 clerical persons not admitted as advocates judge of, liable to action, when, ib 84 n when will annul marriage of minor, ib Spiritualities, guardian of, i 380 Sponsio judiciales, ib 452 Springing uses, ii 334 Squibs, iv 168 Stabbing, ib 193 Stage plays, ib 168 and n Stake driven through the body, ib 190 Stamp duties, i 323 duties consolidated, ib 323 n Statute merchant, 11 160 iv 426 Statute staple, ii 160 iv 428 recognizance in nature of, ii 342 iv 431 Stealing, see Larceny an heiress, iv 208 his court, iv 261 in parliament, iv 260 263 of the university, his court, iv 277 his court, iii 76 iv 276 Stint, common without, ii 34 iii 239 Stipulation in the admiralty court, iii 108 Stocks for punishment, iv 377 of descent, male and female, ii 234 Stolen goods, receiving, &c, iv 132 238. See taking reward to help to, ib 131 Stoppage, iii 305 in transitu, law of, ii 448 n wills of soldiers and sailors exempt from, ib Stores, embezzling the king's, iv 101 417 n receiving stolen, iv 133 n Striking in the king's palace or courts of jus Study of the law, its discouragements, i31 37 n uses, i 6 restrained in London, i 24 why neglected in the universities, i 16 Subjection, civil, iv 28 Subinfeudation, ii 91 Subornation of perjury, iv 137 and n Subpoena ad testificandum, iii 369 duces tecum, ib 382 in equity, ib 445 its origin, ib 52 enactment not restrained by preamble, ib Subscription of witnesses, ii 378 Subscriptions, unlawful, iv 117 on exports and imports, i 316 rents and services, ib 230 See Descent, ii 516 to goods and chattels, ib 430 Suicide, ib 189 and n assisting another in, is murder when, commencement of action to take case out Suit and service, ii 54 of, iii 306 n what revives the claim, ib exceptions as to feme-covert, infants, &c. iii 307 n in case of penal statutes, ib n other atutes of limitations, iii 308 n at law, iii 116. See Action in equity, ib 442 witnesses, ib 295 Summmary convictions, is 280 Summons, iii app Temporalities, their restitution, i 380 iv 421 of mortgaged estate, rent to whom paid, by agreement for three months certain, is from year to year, ib 147 n under demise of joint tenants, ib 183 notes holding over, ib 151 n Tenant, ii 59 to the praecipe, ib 359 362 for life, committing waste of timber, ib 282 283 n in common, how created and distinguished account and partition how obtained, ib 186 of suing jointly or severally, ib n by curtesy, meaning and origin of, ib 126 n of gavelkind lands, ib 129 n when second husband shall be, ib 128 n of issue, ib 313 oaths, i 368 iv 124 money in general, iii 303 i 277 when may be made with effect, ib 304 n entailable, ib 113 Tenemental lands, ib 90 Tenendum of a deed, ib 298 Tenths, ecclesiastical, i 284 temporal, ib 309 Tenure, disturbance of, iii 242 in capite, speaker's address, ib 77 n by petit serjeanty, still exists, ib 82 n copyhold of base tenure, ib 99 n Tenures, ancient, ii 59 modern, ib 78 Term in law, essoign of, &c. iii 278 and Terre-tenant, ib 91 328 Test-act, iv 59 Testament, ii 12 373 489 499 iv 424 Testamentary causes, iii 95 guardian, i 462 ii 88 jurisdiction in equity, iii 437 spiritual courts, ib 97 iv 421 Testamento annexo, administration cam, ¡i 50% Theft, iv 229, see Larceny of forest land, iii 48 subtraction of, ib 88 cognizable in equity, ib 437 Tithing, i 114 iv 411 Tithing-man, i 114 slaying chancellor or judges, ib to coin, and royal signatures, ib 88 Treasurer, lord high, iii 38 44 56 concealment of, ib 297 1v 121 Treaties, leagues, and alliances, ib 257 Trees, destroying, ib 246 and n 247 Tithings, kingdom divided into, before Alfred, Tresayle, iii 186 ib 114 n Title of acts of parliament, ib 183 to lands, ii 195 pretended, selling or buying, iv 136 the crown, i 190 things personal, ii 400 Toleration, iv 52 53 440 Tolt, writ of, iii 34 195 app 1 Tongue, cutting out or disabling, iv 206 207 Tonnage, i 316 iv 437 Torts, actions on, iii 117 Torture, i 133 iv 325 Tourn of the sheriff, iv 273 411 424 Tout temps prist, iii 303 Town, i 115 Trespass, costs in, ib 401 on lands, ib 208 209 the case, action of, ib 122 vi et armis, action of, ib 120 121 123 damages increased by insult, ib 210 n declaring for several, ib 212 n against gleaners, ib 213 n in fox hunting, ib n by inferior tradesmen hunting, sporting, &a ib 214 to right of common, ib 237 n malicious offence of, ib 247 n Trade, see Manufactures, its progress in Eng- Trespassers, ab initio, iii 15 land, iv 428 431 offensive, iv 167 unlawful exercise of, iv 160 king may grant charter to company, i 474 n monopolies,159 ship, ib 160 exercising trades without apprentice- Trover and conversion, action of, ib 152 Truce, breakers of iv 60 how statute for execution of, evaded, ib 336 n when trust, merged in legal estate, ib 337 n Tub-man, in the exchequer, iii 28 Tumultuous petitioning, i 143 iv 147 Turnips, stealing, iv 233 Turnpikes, see Road, destroying of, iv 145 Twelve tables, laws of, i 80 Two witnesses, when necessary, iii 370 iv 356 Tyranny, i 126 133 Ubiquity of the king, i 270 Umpire, iii 16 Unanimity of juries, iii 376 iv 414 Uncertainty of the law, iii 326 Under-sheriff, i 345 Underwood, stealing, iv 233 Union, articles of, i 96 of Great Britain, i 96 iv 427 440 Vagrants, incorrigible rogues, iv 170 Valuable considerations, ib 297 its etymology, ii 53 n not protected by magna charta, ib 93 n Venire facias, writ of, iii 353 app 6 11 iv 318 Ventre inspiciendo, writ de, i 456 when changed, ib 294 384 local in action against magistrate, 1 354 a where offence commenced or con in county, where defendant arrested. in adjacent county, ib n in any county, ib n when offence on boundaries of coun Vert, venison, and covert, injuries to, in 71 United States of America, their separation from Vested legacy, ii 513 England, i 109 n Unities of joint estates, ii 180 Universitates, i 469 University, ib 471 burgesses of, i 174 chancellor of, his certificate, iii 335 right of, to popish advowsons, iii 250 Unknown persons, larceny from, iv 236 359 Usurpation of advowson, iii 242 franchises or offices, iii 262 Usura maritima, ii 458 Usury, ii 454 laws relative to, ib 463 n bond securing purchase-money of foreign estate, ib 464 n offence of, iv 116 156 remainder, ii 168 Vicar, i 387 see Clergy his power and duty, i 387 n vicarages, when established, i 387 iv 428 of rector and vicar to same benefice, ib 386 n age, &c. required for admission to deacon's abstract of acts enforcing residence of cler raising funds to build or repair, &c. parson chaplains, number the king and each noble. cession and lapse by institution to second commendams to bishops, ib 393 n when bishop may refuse to accept resigna Vicarial tithes, i 388 Vice-admiralty courts, iii 69 Vicinage, common because of, ii 33 Vidames, i 403 View by jurors, iii 358 of servants, ib 428 Waifs, ib 297 Wainage, iv 379 and imagining his death, ib part of England, i 99 violating her, ib 223 iv 81 War and peace, right of making, i 257 levying against the king, iv 81 Warlike stores, embezzlement of, iv 101 and n socage, ii 87 Warehousemen, law relative to, ib 451 n of attorney, to confess judgment, iii 397 Warrantia Chartae, ib 300 Warranty of chattels personal, ii 451 Waste, modern form of action for, iii 226 n by fire, ib 228 n lord may by custom grant to hold as copy. equity will restrain malicious waste, ib 125 ■ Watch, i 356 iv 292 426 Watchman, his duty on arrest, iv 296 n Watercourse, right to, ib 19 n 403 n action for injuries to, iii 218 Watermen overloading their boats, iv 192 plying on Sunday, ib 64 n Ways, ii 35 and means, committee of, i 307 in what right claimed, &c. ii 35 n mode of using way by grant, ið n by necessity, ib n by express reservation, ib n Weights and measures, i 274 iv 275 278 424 Weregild, iv 188 313 413 Wells, property in, ii 5 Wharfingers, laws relative to, ii 451 n White rents, ii 42 Whole blood, ib 227 Widow's chamber, ib 518 Wife, i 433 battery of, iii 140 Will, defect of, ib 20 of the lord, ib 95 147 Wills and testaments, ii 11 12 373 489 499 iv 430 489 499 at what age party may make, ib 497 n fraud on testator, ib by feme-covert, ib 375 497, 8 what words in, pass fee simple, ib 109 n witness having interest, how admitted to witness to, may prove testator insane, ib estates, though not so devised, cha:geable when lands acquired subsequent to, pass by, ib n death of devisee before testator, effect of, ib effect to be given to intention of testator, rule as to implications in, ib 382 n bequests in joint-tenancy and tenancy in codicil annexed to will or not ib 500 n |