Heath or moor game, within stat. 9 G. 4, c. 69, as to night
poaching, 408.

Hedges. See Highway," Larceny," "Malicious Injuries.”
Heifer, stealing, wounding or illtreating, 191, 192. See
"Cattle."

Heiress, taking away or detaining, punishment, 1, commit-
ment, 1. See "Abduction."

Helping to stolen goods, taking reward for, punishment, 244,
commitment, 244.

Herring fishery, how regulated, 351.

Hides of horses slaughtered, putting into lime, destroying or
burying, punishment, 565.

Higgler, not to be licensed to deal in game, 413.

High constable, 247: how and by whom appointed, 579, 247;
their duties, 247, in collecting and levying county rates,
303-307; must give security, 247. 307; must account,
248. 366; their expenses when and how allowed, 248.
High seas. See "Admiralty."

High treason, see “Treason ;”—in counterfeiting the great or
privy seal or privy signet, punishment, 364.

Highway, 472: what, 472; statutes upon the subject, 475.
1. Officers to be appointed for the repair, &c. of highways, 475.
In single parishes, 475: surveyors, how elected, 475;
deputy surveyor, 475; surveyor when appointed by
the justices, 475. Collectors of rates, 476.

In large parishes, 476: board for the repair of highways,
476; surveyor and collector, 477; treasurer, 477;
board to account, 477.

In districts of parishes, 477: district, and district sur-
veyors, 477; district surveyor, his power, salary, &c.,
478; parish surveyor, his duty, 479.

Duty of surveyors, 479: to repair the highways, 479;
to erect direction posts, &c., 479; to remove snow,
&c., 480; to account, 480; to deliver up books, &c.,
on quitting office, 480. Penalty for neglect of duty,
481.

Duty of collector, 481: to receive and levy the rate,
481; to account, 481.

2. Special sessions for the highways, 483: when and where
holden, 483.

3. Highway rate, 483: by whom and how made, 483; by
whom in districts, 479; form and amount of it, 483;
error in it, how rectified, 483; what persons excused,
484; rates, recovered, 484; costs of distress, 324;
appeal against a rate, 484.

4. Repair of highways, 485:

Liability to repair, 485: liability of parishes, 486; how,
when the highway is in two parishes, 486; liability of
townships, 488; liability of persons or corporations,
488. Repairs of ways dedicated to the public, 490

Highway (continued.)

of ways set out under inclosure acts, 491; of ways to
and over bridges, 491. 178.

Repairs, how compelled by special sessions, 492: when
the liability to repair is not disputed, 492; costs, 493;
fine, &c., how levied and applied, 493. How, when the
liability to repair is disputed, 494.

Repairs, how compelled by indictment, 494: indict-
ment, in what cases, 494; witnesses, 495, 340; costs,
495; costs of the defendant, when paid out of the
highway rate, 495. Presentment, 496.

Repairs, how made, 496: duty of surveyors, 479;
materials from waste lands, 496; materials from in-
closed lands, 496; surveyor doing damage in taking
materials, 497; surveyor may contract for materials,
497; rate-payers to have the carriage of materials, 498;
heaps of stones not to be left on highway, 498; pits,
&c., to be filled up, 499; penalty for taking away
materials, 499. Lands for maintaining highways, 500.
Width of highways, 500; width of gates, 500. Way,
whilst highway repairing, 501.

5. Widening highways, 501 in what cases, and how, 501;
costs, 504; what highway, 504.

6. Stopping up or diverting highways, 505: previous ap-
plication to justices, 505; justices' view and certificate,
505 order, where there is more than one highway, 507;
appeal, 507; order of sessions, 509; liability to repair
the new way, 509.

7. Nuisances to highways, 509: trees near the highway,
509; hedges, 510; ditches, 511; encroaching on the
highways, 511; steam engines, windmills, &c., 512; gates
on railways, 512, 587; riding on foot paths, injuring the
road, making fires, &c., 513, letting off fire works, &c.,
346; matters laid on the highway, 514; cattle straying
on the highway, 514. Nuisances at common law, 515.
8. Regulations as to waggons, drivers, &c., 516: names on
waggons, &c., 516; driver, how many carts he may drive,
516; misbehaviour of drivers, 517.

9. Proceedings for penalties, &c., 518: securing unknown
offenders, 518; summons, information, &c., 518; con-
viction, 519; witnesses, 520; penalties, &c., how levied,
520; appeal, 523; special case, 524. Fees of clerks of
the peace, clerks to justices, &c., 524.

Highways (turnpike roads,) 525.

1. Trustees, 526: justices to be, 526.
2. Making and repairing roads, 526, Add. p. 588: by the
trustees or commissioners, 526; holes or pits made in
getting materials, 526; repairs by parishes, 527, Add.
p. 588, 589; in what case a part of the highway rate
made applicable to those repairs, 588.

3. Gates, toll-houses, &c., 528: where and in what cases,
528, Add. p. 589; collectors' names to be affixed to toll-
houses, 528, Add. p. 589; possession of toll-houses, how
recovered, 529, Add. p. 589. Destroying or damaging
turnpike gates, &c., 530.

4. Tolls, 530: for carriages, &c., 530; toll according to the
breadth of wheels, 531; when payable only once in a day,
532. Exemptions, 533, Add. p. 590; exemption as to
manure, &c., 534; fraudulently claiming exemption, 535,
Add. p. 590. Remedy for tolls, 535; evading the pay-
ment of them, 536; allowing carriages to pass without
toll, 537; assaulting collectors, &c., 537.

5. Mile stones, direction posts, &c., 538.

6. Regulations as to wiggons, &c., 538, weight of waggons,
538, Add. p. 590; breadth of wheels, Add. p. 590; use of
skidpans, &c. 540; no loaded railway carts allowed,
Add. p. 590; names of owners on waggons, 540, Add.
p. 590.

7. Regulations as to drivers, 541: not to be under thirteen
years of age, 541; how many carts he may drive, 541;
misbehaviour of drivers, 541; penalty incurred by him,
when levied upon his master, 590.

8. Nuisances, 542: windmills, 542; cattle straying on
the road, Add. p. 591; other nuisances, 543, Add. p.
592.

9. Prosecutions for penalties, 545: in what cases, and how,
545; limitation, Add. p. 593; information, 547, Add. p.
593; witnesses, 545, conviction, 547; mitigation of penal-
ties, Add. p. 593; recovery and application of penalties,
546, &c.; appeal, 549, Add. p. 593.

Highway, playing or betting at games upon, penalty, 422.
Highway, centre of, what, 509.

Highway rate, 483. See "Highway." Collectors of, by whom
appointed, 476; their duties, 481. In what cases part of
highway rate made applicable to repair of turnpike roads,
588.

Hiring hawker's licence, penalty, 469.
Homicide, 550: homicide generally and its punishment, 550;
the death and the cause of it, 551, and where to be tried,
552; by whom committed, 552; whether committed
from malice prepense or not, 553; malice, express or im-
plied, what, 553.

Homicide upon provocation, 554; upon an arrest, 554.
120; by fighting, 555; in self defence, 577; by correc-
tion, 557; by negligence or ignorance, 558; homicide
without intention, in doing another act, 558. Principals
and accessories, 558.

Forms of commitments, 559: for murder by stabbing,
559,-by shooting, 560,-by throwing a stone, 560,--by

beating, 560,-by riding over the deceased, 560,-by strangl-
ing, 560,-by drowning, 561,—by poison, 561. Commitment
for manslaughter, 561.

Hop oast, setting fire to, punishment, 184, commitment,
185;-riotously demolishing, remedy against the hundred
for, 569.

Horse, stealing, punishment, 191, commitment, 191;-killing
or wounding, 191, commitment, 192; wantonly or
cruelly beating or illtreating, 192, conviction, 192. See
"Cattle."

Horses employed in husbandry, when exempt from toll on a
turnpike road, 533.

Horse slaughtering, 561: licence, 561; time of killing, and
treatment previously, 562; hours of killing, 562; pre-
vious notice to inspector, 563; in what cases inspector
may stay the killing, 563; slaughtering without licence
or out of hours, 564. Licensed person to keep accounts,
564; making false entries therein, penalty, 564, convic-
tion, 565. Killing sound horses, penalty, 565; putting
the hides into lime or destroying or burying them, punish-
ment, 565. Lending slaughtering houses to others,
penalty, 566, conviction, 566. In what cases persons
bringing horses, &c., may be committed, 566. Inspec-
tor's books to be produced at sessions, 567. Witnesses,

567.

Horseway, public, a highway, 472; of what width it must be,
500; width of gates across it, 500.

Hounds, owners of, killing horses for them, not within the
statute as to horse slaughtering, 565.

House, what, in burglary, &c., 181.

House, setting fire to, punishment, 184; commitment, 185.
House breaking, 179, 182, punishment, 182, commitment,
183;-riotously demolishing a house, remedy against the
hundred for, 569.

House of correction, 423. See "Gaols and Houses of Correc-
Commitment to, in what cases, 238. Expenses

tion."

of, how paid, 297. 309.

House, disorderly, keeping, punishment, 317, 318; commit-
ment, 319. See "Disorderly House."

Hue and cry, 568: in what cases and how, 568; warrant to
levy it, 568; not levying or pursuing it, punishment, 568.
Arrest upon, 118.

Humber, river, regulation of the fisheries in, 350.

Hundred, 569:

1. Proceeding against, in ordinary cases, 569: in what cases
of riotously demolishing of houses, &c., the hundred is
liable for damage, 569; information on oath, 569; notice
of claim, 570, and form of it, 570; appointment of spe-

cial sessions to hear it, 571; notice of hearing, 571, and
form of it, 571; hearing and order, 571.

2. Proceedings, where the damage is to a church or chapel,
572; to be brought in the name of the rector, &c.,
572.

3. Proceedings, where the damage is in a city, town, &c.,
572: how and before what justices, &c., 572; justices'
order, and how directed, 573.

Hunting, when not trespassing, within the game act, 405.
Husband and wife, 574: their liability for crime, 574; wife
liable for treason, murder or robbery, 574, and offences
under felony, 574, keeping a disorderly house, &c., 574,
317; and for all other felonies committed in the absence
of her husband, 366; but not for other felonies, if com-
mitted in company with her husband, 574, and see, 551;
nor can she be guilty of stealing the goods of her husband,
574. Homicide by one in defence of the other, excusable,
557. They cannot be witness for each other; nor against
each other, 575. 152, 341, except for personal injuries to
themselves, 575, 341. Where the husband is incompetent
from interest, his wife is so also, 268.

Husband and wife cannot be indicted for a conspiracy, without
others, 246.

Husband, liable to maintain the children had by his wife before
marriage, 148.

Husbandry, beasts or instruments employed in, when exempt
from toll on a turnpike road, 533.

I.

Idiot, homicide by, 551.

Ignorance, homicide occasioned by, in what cases manslaughter,
558.

Illegitimate child, 145; see " Bastard ;"-father of, not liable
for child stealing, in taking it, 203.

Illtreating horses and other cattle, domestic animals, &c.,
punishment, 192, conviction, 192.

Ill treatment of children, apprentices, &c., homicide by,
551.

Impairing the coin, punishment, 213, commitment, 213.
Implied malice, what, in murder, 553, 554.

Importing counterfeit coin, punishment, 214; commitment,
214.

Impounding cattle, and not supplying them with sufficient
food, penalty, 193, conviction, 193.

Impounding scabbed sheep put on commons, &c., 241.
Impounding cattle straying upon highways, 514, or turn-
pike roads, 591;-releasing them from the pound, penalty,
515.