Combinations, iv. 159*.

Combustio demorum, iv. 374.

Commenda, i. 393, iv. 107.

Commerce, king the arbiter of, i. 273.
Commission of array, i. 411.
bankrupt, ii. 480.
lunacy, i. 305.

the peace, i. 351, iv. 270.

to examine witnesses, iii. 383, 438, 449.
take answers in equity, iii. 447.
Commitment of bankrupt, ii. 481.
persons accused, iv. 296.
Committee of council, i. 232.
parliament, i. 183.

peers out of parliament, iii. 58.
lunatic, i. 306.

Common appendant, ii. 33.
appurtenant, ib.

bail, iii. 287.

barretor, iv. 134.

because of vicinage, ii. 33.
bench, court of, iii. 37.

justices of, killing them, iv. 84.
disturbance of, iii. 237.
estate in, ii. 191, 399.

farrier, &c., action against, iii. 165.
form, proof of will in, ii. 508.
in gross, ii. 34.

informer, iii. 161.

jury, iii. 358.

law, i. 63, 67, iv. 411, 412.

corporation by, i. 472.
dower by, ii. 132.
guardian by, i. 461.

nuisance, iv. 166.
of estovers, ii. 35.

pasture, ii. 33.

piscary, ii. 34.

turbary, ib.

pleas, iii. 40.

court of, iii. 37.

Confiscation, i. 299, iv. 377.

Confusion, property by, ii. 405.

Conge d'eslire, i. 379, 382, iv. 421.

Conjugal rights, restitution of, iii. 94.
subtraction of, iii. 94.
Conjuration, iv. 60, 436.

Conquest, Norman, i. 199, iv. 414, 415.
or acquisition, ii. 48, 242.
victory, i. 103, 107.
Consanguineus frater, ii. 232.
Consanguinity, i. 434, ii. 202.

table of, ii. 203.

Conscience, courts, of, iii. 81, iv. 441.

Consecration of bishops, i. 380, iv. 115.
Consequential damages, action for, iii. 154.

39, iv. 424.

sans nombre, iii. 239.

scold, iv. 168.

seal, i. 475.

surcharge of, iii. 237.

tenant in, of lands, ii. 191, app. 6.

chattels personal, ii. 399.
vouchee, ii. 359, app. 18, 19.
utterer of false money, iv. 100.
ways, ii. 35.

without stint, ii. 34.

Commonalty, i. 403.

Commons, house of, i. 158.

Commonwealth, offences against, iv. 127.
Commorancy, iv. 273.

Communem legem, writ of entry ad, iii. 183.
Communion of goods, ii. 3.

Commutation of penance, iv. 106, 217, 276.
Compact, i. 45.

Compassing the death of the king, &c., iv. 76.
Compensatio, iii. 305.

Competent witnesses, iii. 369.

Composition, real, for tithes, ii. 28.

with creditors, ii. 484.

Compound larceny, iv. 239.

Compounding felony, iv. 134.

of truce and safe-conducts, iv. 69.
Consideration of contracts, ii. 445.

of deeds, ii. 296, app. 2, 4.

Consideratum est per curiam, iii. 396.
Consilium, or imparlance, iv. 356.

Consimili casu, writ of entry in, iii. 183.

Consistory court, iii. 64.

Consort, queen, i. 219.

Conspiracy, iv. 136.

action of, iii. 126.

Constable, i. 355, 411, iv. 292.

high, i. 116.

lord high, i. 355, iii. 38, iv. 268.

his court, iii. 68, iv. 268.

Constitution, English, i. 50, 127, 144, 164, 160, -
213, 217, 234, 237, iii. 60*, iv. 439.
Construction of deeds and wills, ii. 379.
statutes, i. 87.

Constructive treason, iv. 75, 85.

Consuetudinibus et servitiis, writ de, iii. 232.

Consultation, writ of, iii. 114.

Consummate, tenant by curtesy, ii. 128.

Contempt against the king, iv. 121.
in courts of equity, iii. 443.

law, iv. 283.

Contenement, iv. 379.

Contentious jurisdiction, iii. 66.

Contestatio litis, iii. 296.

Contingent legacy, ii. 513.

special, ib.

Contractu, action ex, iii. 117.

Convention of estates, i. 151, 152.
parliaments, i. 152.

Conventional estates for life, ii. 120.
Conversion, iii. 152.

Conveyances, ii. 9, 293, 309, iv. 430.
Conviction, iv. 362.

summary, iv. 280.
Convocation, i. 279.

3ourt of bishops in, iii. 67.
Coparceners, ii. 187.

Copper coin, counterfeiting, iv. 100.
Copy of indictment, iv. 351.

record of indictment, iii. 126.
Copyhold, ii. 95, 147, iv. 439.
for life, ii. 97.

forfeiture of, ii. 284.

not liable to elegit, iii. 419.

of frank tenure, ii. 100, 149.

inheritance, ii. 97.

turned into frank fee, ii. 368.

Copyrights, ii. 405.

Corsned, trial by, iv. 345, 414.

Cosinage, writ of, iii. 186.

Costs, ii. 439, iii. 188, 399, app. 12, 25, 26.
in equity, iii. 451.

no more than damages, iii. 400.
on not going to trial, iii. 357.
Covenant, iii. 156.

in a deed, ii. 304, app. 8, 10.
real, iii. 157.

to stand seised to uses, ii. 338.
writ of, ii. 350, app. 14, iii. 157.
Covert-baron, i. 442.

420, 422, 424, 441.

of Middlesex, iii. 83.
palatine, i. 117, iv. 431.

Court, i. 267, iii. 23, iv. 258, 414.
baron, ii. 90, iii. 33, iv. 411.

Christian, iii. 64.

hand, iii. 323.

leet, iv. 273, 411, 424.

martial, i. 416.

power to erect, i. 267, iii. 24.

Courts, profits of, i. 289.

Craven, iii. 340, iv. 348.

Credible witness, iii. 370.

Crimes, iv. 1, 2, 5.

Criminal conversation, iii. 139
law, iv. 2.

Cross bills, iii. 448.

causes, iii. 451.

remainder, ii. 381..

sign of, in deeds, ii. 305.

Crown, descent of the, i. 191, iv. 418.

office, iv. 265, 308.

pleas of the, iv. 2.

Cucking-stool, iv. 168.

Cui ante divortium, writ of, iii. 183.

Cui in vita, writ of, ib.

Cul prit, iv. 339.

Cumberland, theft in, iv. 238.

Curate, i. 393.

his salary, iii. 90.

Curator of infants, &c., i. 460.

Curatores viarum, i. 858.
Curfeu, iv. 419, 420.
Curialitas, ii. 126.

Cursing, iv. 59.

Curtesy, tenant by, ii. 126.

Custody of idiots and lunatics, i. 303, iii. 427
of temporalities, i. 282, iv. 421.
Custom, ii. 263, 422.

assurances by, ii. 365.
dower by, ii. 132.
general, 68, 73.
heriot, ii. 422.

of London, how tried, iii. 334.

Custom, particular, i. 74.

how allowed, i. 78.
when legal, i. 76.

Customary freehold, ii. 100, 149.
tenant, ii. 147.

Customs on merchandise, i. 313, 317.
Custuma antiqua sive magna, i. 314.
parva et nova, ib.

Custos rotulorum, i. 349, app. 1, iv. 272.
Cutpurses, iv. 241.

Damage to things personal, iii. 153.
Damage-feasant, iii. 6.

Damages, ii. 438, iii. 187, 188.
Dane-lage, i. 65, iv. 412.

Darrein presentment, assize of, iii. 245.

Date of a deed, ii. 304, app. 1, 3, 12, 13.

Day in bank, iii. 277.

court, iii. 316.

of grace, iii. 278.

De bene esse, iii. 383.

De la plus belle, dower, ii. 132.

Deacon, i. 388.

Dead man's part, ii. 518.

Deadly feud, iv. 244.

Deaf, dumb, and blind, i. 304, ii. 497.

Dean and chapter, i. 382.

rural, i. 383.

Deanery, rural, i. 112.

Death, appeal of, iv. 314, 424.

civil, i. 132.

judgment of, iv. app. 4.

Debet et detinet, action in, iii. 156.
Debt, ii. 464, iii. 154.

action of, iii. 154, app. 13.

on amercement, iii. 161.

by law, iii. 160.

escape, iii. 165.

judgment, iii. 160, 421.

on penal statutes, iii. 161.

information of, iii. 261.

public, i. 328, iv. 441.

Debtee executor, iii. 18.

Deforcement, iii. 172.

Deforciant, ii. 350, app. 15, 16, iii. 174.
Degradation of peers, i. 402.

.Degrees, conferred by the archbishop, i. 381.
in writs of entry, iii. 186.

of consanguinity, ii. 206.

how reckoned, ii. 206, 207, 224.
guilt, iv. 34.

Dehors, matter, iiì. 387, iv. 390.
Delay of the law, iii. 423.

Delegates, court of, iii. 66, 69.

in academical causes, iii. 85.

Delictum, challenge propter, iii. 363, iv. 352.
Deliverance, second, writ of, iii. 150.
Delivery of a deed, ii. 306, app. 3, 12, 13.
Demand of lands, ii. app. 18.

Demandant and tenant, ii. app. 18.

Demesne lands, ii. 90.

Demesnes of the crown, i. 286.

Demi-mark, tender of, iii. app. 5.

Demise of the crown, i. 188, 249.
Demi-vills, i. 116.

Democracy, i. 49.

Demolishing churches, houses, &c., iv. 143.
Demurrer, iii. 314, app. 23.

book, iii. 317.

in equity, iii. 446.
to evidence, iii. 372.
indictment, iv. 333.
Denial of rent, iii. 170.
Denizen, i. 374, ii. 249.
Deodand, i. 300.

Departure in pleading, iii. 310.
Depopulatio agrorum, iv. 374.
Depositions, iii. 383.

in chancery, iii. 449.

ecclesiastical courts, iii. 100.

Deprivation, i. 393.

Derelict lands, ii. 262.

Dereliction of property, ii. 9.

Derivative conveyances, ii. 324.

Descender, writ of formedon in, iii. 192.

Descent of lands, ii. 201, iv. 413, 421.
Descent of the crown, i. 193, iv. 413.
collateral, i. 194.

lineal, i. 193.
rules of, ii. 208.
table of, ii. 240.

Desertion, i. 416, iv. 102.

Detainer, forcible, iii. 179, iv. 148.

unlawful, iii. 151.

Determinable freehold, ii. 121.

Determination of will, ii. 146.

Detinet, action of debt in, iii. 156.

Detinue, action of, iii. 152.

Devastation, ii. 508.

Devise, ii. 373, iv. 430.

Devisee, liable to debts of devisor, ii. 378

Die, eat sine, iii. 316, 399.

Diet, excess in, iv. 171.

Diets, i. 147.

Digests, i. 81.

Dignity of the king, i. 241.

Dignities, ii. 37.

Dilapidations, iii. 91.

Dilatory pleas, iii. 301.

Diminishing the coin, iv. 90.
Diminution of record, iv. 390.
Diocese, i. 112.

Direct prerogatives, i. 239.
Directory part of a law, i. 55.

Disabilities, iv 377.

Disability, plea to, iii. 301.

Donative advowsons, ii. 23.

Done, grant, et render, fine sur, ii, 353.

206, 207.

statutes of leases, ii. 320, iv. 432.
Disclaimer of tenure, ii. 275, iii. 233.
Discontinuance of action, iii. 296.
estate, iii. 171.

Discovery by bankrupt, ii. 483.
of accomplices, iv. 330, 331.
on oath, iii. 381, 437.

Discretionary fines and imprisonment, iv. 378.

Disfiguring, iv. 207.

Disguise, iv. 144.

Dismembering, punishment by, iv. 377.

Dismission of bill in equity, iii. 451.

Disorderly houses, iv. 167.

persons, iv. 169.

Disparagement, ii. 70.

Dispensation from the king, ii. 272.

pope, iv. 115.

Double fine, ii. 353.

plea, iii. 308.
voucher, ii. app. 17.
Dowager, princess, iv. 81.
queen, i. 224, iv. 81.
Dower, ii. 129, iv. 424.
ad ostium ecclesiæ, ii. 132.
assignment of, ii. 135.
bar of, ii. 136.

by common law, ii. 132.
custom, ib.

de la plus belle, ib.

ex assensu patris, ii. 133.

justices of, iii. 59.

unde nihil habet, writ of, iii. 183.
writ of right of, iii. 183, 194.
Draught for money, ii. 467.
Drawbacks, i. 315.

iv. 436, 440.

Dispossession, iii. 167, 198.

Dissection of murderers, iv. 202, 376, app. 4.

Disseisin, ii. 195, iii. 169.

at the party's election, iii. 170, 171.
warranty commencing by, ii. 302.
writ of entry sur, iii. 183.

Dissenters, Protestant, iv. 53.
Dissolution of parliament, i. 188.
Distress, ii. 41, 42, 43, 452, iii. 6, 7.

excessive, iii. 12.

illegal, for crown debts, iv. 423.
infinite, iii. 231, 280, iv. 285, 318.
sale of, iii. 14.

Docquet of judgment, ii. 511, iii. 397.

Droit droit, ii. 199.

Druids, their customs, i. 63, iv. 408.
Drunkenness, iv. 25, 64.

Duchy-court of Lancaster, iii. 78.
Ducking-stool, iv. 169, 377.
Duel, iv. 145, 185, 199.

Dues, ecclesiastical, non-payment of, iii. 89.
Dukes, i. 397, 409.

Dum fuit intra ætatem, writ of, iii. 183.

non compos mentis, writ of, ib.

Duodecima manus, iii. 343.

Duplex querela, iii. 247.

Duplicatio, iii. 310.

Duplicity in pleading, iii. 308, 311.

Durante absentia, administration, ii. 503.
minore ætate, administration, ib.
Duress, ii. 292.

of imprisonment, i. 131, 136.
per minas, i. 131, iv. 30.

Durham, county palatine of, i. 117.
courts of, iii. 78.

Duties of persons, i. 123.

of the king, i. 233.
Dwelling-house, iv. 224.

their cognizance, iii. 87, iv. 275, 425.

when separated from the civil, iii. 62, iv
415, 421.

Education of children, i. 450.

Edgar, king, his laws, i. 66, iv. 412.

208, 217, iv. 91, 116, 123.

Dog, carrying, iv. 123.

Dogs, stealing them, iv. 235*.

&c., owner answerable for, iii. 154.
Dome-book of Alfred, i. 64, iv. 411.
Domesday-book, ii. 49, 99, iii. 331.
Dominion, ii. 1.

Domitæ naturæ, animals, ii. 390.
Donatio mortis causa, ii. 514.

420.

Egyptians, iv. 165.

Ejectione firma, writ of, iii. 199.

Ejectment, action of, iii. 199, app. 7, iv. 441.
Election of bishops, i. 377, iv. 115, 421.

magistrates, i. 340, iv. 413, 427.

members of parliament, i. 170, 177.
Scots peers, i. 168, iv. 117.

Elective monarchy, i. 192, iv. 413.

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Eleemosynary corporations, i. 471.
Elegit, estate by, ii. 161.

writ of, iii. 418, iv. 426.
Elisors, iii. 355.
Eloignment, iii. 129, 149.
Elopement, i. 442, ii. 130.
Ely, courts of, iii. 78.
isle of, i. 120.
Embargo, i. 270.
Embassadors, i. 253.

killing them, iv. 85.

violation of their privileges, iv. 70, 441.

Emblements, ii. 122, 145, 403.
Embowelling alive, iv. 92, 376.
Embracery, iv. 140.

Emperor, his authority, i. 242.
Emphyteusis, iii. 232.

Empson and Dudley, iv. 310.
Enabling statute of leases, ii. 319.
Enclosure, disseisin, by, iii. 170.
Endowment of vicarages, i. 387.
widows, ii. 135.

Enemies, i. 257, iv. 83.

Estrays, i. 297, ii. 14.

Estreat of recognizance, &c., iv. 258.
Estrepement, writ of, iii. 225.
Evidence, iii. 367, iv. 356.

Ex officio informations, iv. 308.
Ex post facto laws, i. 46.
Examination in chancery, iii. 449.
of bankrupt, ii. 481.
prisoners, iv. 296.
witnesses, iii. 372.
trial by, iii. 331.
Exceptio, iii. 310.

Exceptions, bill of, iii. 372.

to answer in chancery, iii. 448.
Exchange, bill of, ii. 466.
deed of, ii. 323.

of goods and chattels, ii. 446.
lands, ii. 323.

Exchequer chamber, court of, iii. 56.

offences against, how tried, iv: 281.
Exclusion-bill, i. 210.

Excommunication, iii. 101.

Excommunicato capiendo, writ de, iii. 102.
deliberando, writ de, ib.

Excusable homicide, iv. 182.

Executed contract, ii. 443.

estate, ii. 163.

fine, ii. 353.

remainder, ii. 168.

Execution, civil, iii. 412, app. 25.

criminal, iv. 403.

award of, iv. 263, 403, app. 6.

plea in bar of, iv. 396.

precept of, iv. 403.

rule for, iv. 404.

varying from judgment, iv. 179, 404

warrant of, iv. 404, app. 6.

writ of, iv. 403, app. 7.

of devises, ii. 376.

uses, ii. 333.

process of, iii. 279, 412.
Executive power, i. 190.
Executor, ii. 503.

de son tort, ii. 507.

of executor, ii. 506.

his own wrong, ii. 507.
Executory contract, ii. 443.
devise, ii. 173, 334.

estate, ii. 163.

remainder, ii. 169.

Exemplification, ii. app. 17.

Exemptions from tithes, ii. 28.

assisting in, iv. 131.

Exigi facias, writ of, iii. 283, app. 15, iv. 319
Exile, i. 137, iv. 377.

Expectancy, estates in, ii. 163.

Expenses of prosecution, iv. 362.

witnesses, iii. 369, iv. 362.

Exportation of wool, &c., iv. 154, 428.
Express condition, ii. 154.

contract, ii. 443, iii. 154.

malice, iv. 198.

warranty, ii. 301.

Extendi facias, iii. 420.

Extent, writ of, ib.

Extinguishment of estates, ii. 325.

Extortion, iv. 141.