appointment of, 595-597.
assignment of, 596.
authority and rank of, 599.
deputy of the, 602, 603.
disabilities of, 601.

duties of, 599 et seq., 602.
duty of, at elections, 402, 599.
is returning officer, 402, 412.
expenses of, 211, 600 n.
mode of electing, 595.
occasional, 597, 598.
office of, is compulsory, 598.
officers of, 603, 604.

of London and Middlesex, 596.

Westmoreland, 595, 596.

pricking for, 597.

qualification for, 598.

responsibility of, 600, 603.

woman may be, 595.
tourn of, 601.

Sovereign-cont.

arbiter of commerce, 513.
audience of the, 467, 468.
authority of, 490.

can be guilty of no laches, 489.
do no wrong, 481.

cannot be sued, 487.

non-suited, 506.

coronation oath of, 431, 432.
councils of, 466 et seq.
death of, 485.

declaration of war by, 494.

de facto and de jure, 450.
dignity of, 483.

dispenser of justice, 504.
family of, 458.

forces of, 566 et seq.

fountain of honour, 511.
justice, 504.

grant by, 486.

head of the Church, 520, 671, 672.
hereditary right of, 443, 444.
general relation to the people. 430
et seq.

guardian of idiots and lunatics,
507 et seq.

irresponsibility of, 486.
legislative power of, 506.

letters of marque and reprisal by,
495, 496.

military rank of, 498.
never under age, 485.
dies, 485.

no corruption of blood, 484.
laches in, 489.
pardoning by, 505.

parens patriæ, 507,
perpetuity of, 485.

petitioning of, 479 n, 482, 487.
position as regards Acts of Parlia-
ment, 498.

prerogative of, 477, 483.
proclamations by, 506.
prosecution by, 505.
remonstrance with, 488.
revenue of, 523 et seq.
safe-conduct by, 496.
sole executive, 490.
time, when a bar of, 490.
torts by, 486, 487.

treaties by, 493, 494.

ubiquity of, 506.