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Justices, what, may attend special sessions for granting ale
licences, 20; what, may vote upon an appeal, 79.

Justices, assault upon, in the execution of their duty as to
wreck, 139.

Justices, in what cases an attorney may act before, in what
not, 151.

Justices, orders of, (see “Orders of Justices,")—when removable
by certiorari, 252; within what time, 254; notice of
moving for the certiorari, 254.

Justices' clerks, their fees, 667.

Justifiable homicide, what, 707; by an officer in making an
arrest, when, 713.

Juvenile offenders, prison for, 591; where, 591; officers, 591;
visitors, 591; rules and regulations, 591. The prisoners,
591; their removal, in what cases, 592; offences by them,
592; breaking prison, 592; escaping from charitable
institutions, 593.

K.

Keelman, forcibly preventing him from working, penalty, 141,
conviction, 141.

Keeper of a gaol or house of correction, 576; by whom ap-
pointed, 576; rules of the gaol, &c., respecting him, 567;
not to sell or give spirits or fermented liquors in the
prison, 574; reports by him as to the state of the gaol,
&c., 580; in what cases he may hear complaints, and
punish the offenders, 584.

"Game."

Keeper of a forest, chase, &c., see
Killing cattle, with intent to steal any part of the carcase, &c.,
punishment, 245, commitment, 245; killing them mali-
ciously, punishment, 246, commitment, 246.

Killing salmon on fence days, or out of season, 460, penalty,
460, conviction, 462; killing them with lime, &c., penalty,
461, conviction, 462.

Killing game, 519, 520.

See "Game."

Killing game on Sunday, penalty, 520, conviction, 521.

Kiper salmon, taking or having, penalty, 460.

Knowledge, guilty, how proved, 443; how proved in forgery,
481; how, in receiving stolen goods, 444.

L.

Labour of prisoners in gaols, &c., in what cases, 582.
Labourer playing at cards, dice, &c., penalty, &c., 545.

Lace, wholesale traders in, not within statute as to hawkers, 603.

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Cattle;"

Lamb, stealing, killing, or ill-treating, 245, 246; see
turning infected lambs upon commons, &c., 300; see
"Commons."

Lamps or lamp posts upon turnpike roads, pulling down or

destroying them, penalty, 699.

Lands, inclosed, when materiais for highways may be taken
from, 638; the like, as to waste land, 637.

Land left or allotted for maintaining highways, when it may
be leased or disposed of, 641.

Landlord, his remedy when goods are removed to avoid a dis-
tress for rent, 426; see " Distress ;"-when entitled to
game, 506, and see 519, 523, and may authorize others
to kill it, 506; see “Game ;”—not liable to repair high-
ways, 628.

Landrails, trespass in search of them in the day time, penalty,
523; the like, by five persons or more, 524, and using
violence, 525.

Land tax, costs of distress for, 429.

Larceny, housebreaking and, punishment, 237, commitment,

237.

Larceny, see

Burglary and Housebreaking,” “Cattle ;”—can-
not be committed by a wife, of her husband's property,
733.

Lease of land given for the maintenance of highways, how,

641.

Leave and licence of occupier, no defence to information
against trespassers in pursuit of game, by landlord, 523.
Lending licence, by hawkers, 608.
Lessee, removing goods to avoid a distress for rent, in what
cases landlord may follow, and distrain them, 426, and
may have action for double value, 427, or an order of
justices where the value of the goods does not exceed 50%.,
p. 427; form of the order, 428.

Lessor, when entitled to game, 506, and see 519, 523, and may
authorize others to kill it, 506; see "Game."

Letter, accusing or threatening to accuse a person of crime
with intent to extort, punishment, 7.

Levying hue and cry, in what cases and how, 727; form of the
warrant, 727.

Levying penalties by distress, 379. See "Conviction."
Liability to repair highways, 625:-of parishes, 625, how,
where the highway is in two parishes, 626; of townships,
628; of individuals or corporations, 628; as to ways dedi-
cated to the public, 630; as to ways set out under Inclo-
sure Acts, 631; ways to and over bridges, 632; new way
set out, where a road is diverted, 651.

Libel against Christianity, writing and publishing, &c.,
ment, 206, commitment, 206.

punish-

killing without intention, whilst doing another act, 716.
Where tried, if committed at sea, 12.

Manslaughter, accessories in, 717: no accessories before, 718,
5; accessories after, how punished, 718.

Manslaughter, commitment for, 719;-how, when committed
at sea, 12; commitment for by coroner, 389.

Manufactures, buildings used in, setting fire to, punishment,
239; commitment, 240; remedy for, against the hundred,
728.

Manufacturers, combination by, 275. See "Combination.”
Manufacturing paper for Bank of England notes, punishment,
484.

Manure, exempt from toll on turnpike roads, 685.

Manure, laying upon a highway, penalty, 656;—on a turnpike
road, penalty, 699.

Marking scabbed sheep on commons, how, 301; other sheep
also to be marked, 302. See Commons."

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Marking packages of hawkers, how, 604.

Market, sale in, not within statute as to hawkers, &c., 602.
Marriage, proof of, in bigamy, 205.

Marriage licence, forging or altering, punishment, 491.

Marriage register, how proved, 448;-making false entries in,
punishment, 491, or in the copy sent to the registrar of
the diocese, 492.

Married woman, cannot take an apprentice, 81;- -cannot enter
into a recognizance, 295, 296; may be tried for keeping
a disorderly house, 422.

See"

Ap-

Masters, complaints of, against apprentices, 114: as to ap-
prentices generally, under stat. 5 El. c. 4, p. 114; the
like, under stat. 20 G. 2, c. 19, &c., p. 115.
prentice."
Masters, complaints of apprentices against, 119 :-apprentices
generally, under stat. 5 El. c. 4, p. 119:--the like under
stat. 20 G. 2, c. 19, p. 120;-the like under stat. 33 G. 3,
c. 55, p. 122;-by apprentices to the sea service, 122.
See"
Apprentice."

Master, causing the death of apprentice by cruelty or ill-treat-
ment, when homicide, 707, 715.

Master, homicide by, in defence of his servant, when excusable,
715;-in correction of his apprentice or servant, when
manslaughter, when murder, when excusable, 707.

Materials for the repair of bridges, how obtained, 233.
Materials for highways, how obtained from waste lands, 637;
how, from inclosed lands, 638; surveyor doing damage in
taking them, penalty, 639; pits from which they are
taken, to be filled up, 640; surveyor may contract for
them, 639; rate payers to have the carriage of them, 639;
penalty for stealing them, 639;-such materials exempt
from tolls, 685.

Materials for turnpike roads, 670-exempt from tolls, 685;
-stealing them, penalty, 700.

Matrix, (for coining,) making or having, punishment, 273;-

conveying out of the mint, punishment, 273.

Matron of gaol or house of correction, by whom appointed,
576;-rules of gaols, &c., respecting, 567, &c.

of prison for juvenile offenders, 591.

Matron

Mayor, not to be concerned in contracts for borough gaol,
590;-salary of, paid out of the borough fund, 410.

Mead, owner of beer shop selling, penalty, 50;-conviction, 50;
Measure, coals not to be sold by, 262.

Measure, standard, alehouse keeper not selling by, penalty, 31,
conviction, 31, 33;-keeper of beer shop not selling by,
penalty, 51, 52; conviction, 52, 53.

Medical man, homicide by, through negligence or ignorance, 716.
Medical men, not privileged from disclosing in evidence private
communications of their patients, 452.

Medical witness, before coroner's inquest, in what cases, 388;
his fees, 389.

Medicines. See" Apothecary."

Medway, river, fisheries of, how regulated, 463.

Meeting, annual, for licensing alehouses, 19; adjournment of
it, 21, See "Alehouse."

Meetings, for the purpose of training to arms, prohibited,
126.

Meetings of justices for preparing assessments to the county
rate, 396.

Menaces, used by trespassers in pursuit of game, penalty, 525,
conviction, 526.

Mending instruments of coinage, punishment, 273.
Merchant, converting to his own use money or securities in-
trusted to him for a special purpose, punishment, 14,
17, commitment, 15:-selling or converting to his use any
chattel, security, or power of attorney for sale or transfer
of stock, punishment, 15, commitment, 16. In what cases
not liable to prosecution, 17.

Merchant ships, assaults on board of, summary proceedings
for, 136.

Messenger of challenge to fight, how punishable, 257.
Metheglin, not to be sold in beer shops, penalty, 50, convic-
tion, 50.

Milestones, destroying or defacing, penalty, 655, 691.

Military, billetting, on beer shops, in what cases, 54.

Military service, foreign, engaging in, punishment, 474; com-
mitment, 474. See "Foreign Service."

Mill, setting fire to, punishment, 239, commitment, 239;-
remedy against the hundred for, 728.

Mills for gunpowder, 595, where and in what cases, 595. See
Gunpowder."

Mine, stealing ore or coal, &c. from, remedy for, against the
hundred, 728.

Mines of coal, setting fire to, punishment, 241, commitment,

242.

Mines, subject to highway rate, 623.

Mine, gunpowder for, what quantity may be kept, 597.
Mint, conveying tools or metals out of, punishment, 273.
Misadventure, homicide by, 707; not punishable, 707.
Misbehaviour of drivers upon highway, penalty, 659.
Miscarriage, giving drugs to procure, punishment, 2, commit-

ment, 3.

Misdemeanors, no accessories in, 5;-bail in, 154;-examina-
tions in, 287;-married woman, punishable for, 733.
Misdemeanor, attempt to commit, punishment, 150, commit-
ment, 151.

Misfortune or misadventure, homicide by, 707. See "Homi-
cide."

Money, see "Coin."

Moors, turning scabbed sheep upon, penalty, 300. See "Com-
mons."

Moor game, game within the statute against night poaching,
529.

Moravians, may be witnesses, 450, form of their affirmation,
288.

Mortgage of county rates, to build or repair gaols, &c., 560.
Mother of bastard to maintain it, 164;-a competent witness
upon trial of an appeal against a bastardy order, 203.
Mould for coining, making or having, 273;-conveying out of
the mint, 273.

Mould for making bank note paper, making or having, 484;—
the like, for other bankers' paper, 486.

Mule, wantonly or cruelly ill-treating, penalty, 246.
Murder, what and how punished, 707: in killing an officer
in execution of his duty, 712; in killing, by fighting, 713;
in killing in self-defence, when, 715; in killing by cor-
rection, 715; in killing without intention, whilst doing
another act, 716. Principals and accessories in, 717;-
married women punishable for, 733.

Murder, commitments for, 718 : for murder by stabbing, 718,-
by shooting, 718,-by throwing a stone, 718,-by beating,
718,-by riding over the deceased, 719,-by strangling,
719,-by drowning, 719,—by poison, 719.

Murder, commitment for, by coroner, 389.

Murder, at sea or abroad, commitment for, 11, 287;-where
and how tried, 12.

Murder, attempt to commit, by poison, punishment, 144,
commitment, 145;-by stabbing, cutting or wounding,
punishment, 145, commitment, 146;-by shooting,
punishment, 146, commitment, 147;-by attempting to

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