PRÆMUNIRE, Statute of, 439, 440, 476.
PRECATORY TRUSTS, 305.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF PRI-
SONERS, 191-192.

PREROGATIVE, James I.'s, view of his,
424, 428, 429.

PREROGATIVE WRITS, the, 420.
PREROGATIVES, inseparable, 475.
Principall Grounds and Maximes of the
Lawes of the Kingdome (Noy), 399.
Principali Lawes and Statutes of Eng-
land (Bankes), 396.

PRISONERS, examination of, 191-192.
PRISONERS OF WAR, release on parole,
33; treatment of, 34.

PRISOT, 221.

PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW, 38;
origins of, 74-75, 98.
PRIVATE TRUSTS, 304-305.
PRIVATE WAR, 37.

PRIVILEGE, Parliamentary, 351, 352.
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS, 333.
Privileges of the Baronage (Selden), 409.
Privileges and Prerogatives of the High
Court of Chancery, 271.
PRIVY SEAL, process of the, 161.
PROCEDURE, of Court of Admiralty,
138-139, 168, 169; proposals to im-
prove by statute, 153; of canon law
in commercial cases, 81-83; influence
of civil and canon law on, in Middle
Ages-abroad, 168; in England, 169;
of the Court of Chancery in the Middle
Ages, 284-287; growth of defects in,
302-303; of the common law courts,
defects in, 413-414; criminal, of the
common law, 169, 176; need for
reforms in, 169-170 177-178; crimi-
nal, of continental states, 170-176;
criminal, of the Star Chamber, 178-
188; ore tenus, 165, 166; influence of
the Star Chamber and common law
procedure on one another, 188-197;
of courts of piepowder, 106-107.
Procedure of the Chancery (Tothill), 274,

277.

PROCESS, Common law, defects of, 279-
281; abuse of, by powerful men, 282-
284.
PROCLAMATIONS, Coke's views as to,
427, 433.

PROCURATOR, the king's, 174.
Profitable Book, the (Perkins), 141, 388,
396.

Promptuary or Repertory Generall (Ashe),

375-
PROVENCAL MERCHANTS, the company
of, 92.

PROVINCIAL COUNCILS, attack
common lawyers, 432.
PRUSSIA, 33:

on,

by the

PRYNNE, his career, 405-407; other
references, 15, 142, 147, 164, 411, 476.

PUBLIC POLICY, acts contrary to, treat-
ment of, by the Star Chamber, 213-214.
PUBLICATION, of a libel, 207, 210; of
books, 208; of the Answer in the Star
Chamber, 183-184.

PUCKERING, Sir John, 224, 230-231.
PURCHASERS, frauds on, 212, 213.

Q

QUASI-CONTRACT, 418.

QUEENBOROUGH, inquisition of, 126.
QUO WARRANTO INQUIRIES, the, 104.

R

RALEIGH, Sir W., trial of, 427.
RAMSEY, Abbot of, 106.

RASTELL, John, 401; William, 380; his
book of Entries, 384, 461.

Reading on the Statute of Uses (Bacon),
246, 395-396.

READINGS, the published, 393-396, and
App. II.

REAL ACTIONS, the, 323.
REBELLION, commission of, 286.
RECEPTION OF ROMAN LAW, 170; in-
fluence of, on growth of commercial
law, 64-65, 66-67.

RECORD, Court of, growth of technical
meaning of, 157-160.

RECORDS, of the Court of Chancery, 262-
264; of the Court of Star Chamber,
161-162.

RECTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS, 293,
327-328.

RED Book of BRISTOL, 106, 107.
REDE, Sir R., 344-345.
REDE LECTURES, the, 344-345-
Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, 7.
REFORMATION, the, effect on develop-
ment of equity, 217.

REGICIDES, arrest of, abroad, 50.
Register of Parliamentary Writs (Prynne)
406.

Register of Writs, 378, 380, 381.
REGISTRARS, the, 253, 256.
RELIGION, wars of, effect of, on Inter-
national law, 44.

Repertorium Canonicum (Godolphin), 15.
REPLICATION, the, in the Star Chamber,
181.

Replication of the Serjeant-at-law, 269.
REPORTS, the, of common law cases,
355-374; courts in which cases are
reported, 356; table of, 358-363;
comparison with the Y.BB.-origins,
363-365; circumstances of publica-
tion, 365-369; MS. authority, 369;
contents and style, 369-371; why they
come to differ from the Y.BB., 371-
373; place of reports of this period in

legal history, 373-374; of equity cases, | SEDITIOUS LIBEL, 207, 208-209.

274-278; of Star Chamber cases, 162-
164.

Reports And Certificates, 264.
REPRISALS, 37-38, 47, 73-74; modifica-
cation of, 74, 93.

REQUESTS, Court of, jurisdiction in com-
mercial cases, 139.
RESIDUE, undisposed of, right of executor
to, 305, 317.

RESTRAINT OF TRADE, contracts in, 418.
RHODIAN SEA LAW, 76, 77, 134.
RICH, Lord, 224, 225.
RICHARD I., 39, 40.

RICHARDSON, C.J., 352, 353.
RIDLEY, Sir Th., 11, 12-13, 134.

RIGIDITY OF LAW, relief against, 325-
336.

RIOT, 197-199, 290.
Risden's Reading, 395.
ROBINSON, Sir Th., 385.
ROLLE, 375-376.

Rolle's Abridgment, 376-377-
Rolle's Reports, 276, 363.
ROLLS HOUSE, the, 258.

ROMAN LAW, 76, 77; influence on com-
mercial law, 77, 79; no separate sys-
tem of commercial law in, 65-66.
ROPER, 341.

Ross, the Bishop of, 45.
ROUT, 197-199.

ROWE, 368.

ROWGHTON MASTER, 126.
RUSHWORTH, 164, 186.

S

SA, Don Pantaleone, 18, 46.
SAEPE CONTINGIT, the decretal, 82.
ST. GERMAIN, Christopher, 17, 217, 266-
267, 336; see Doctor and Student.
ST. IVES, the fair courts of, 106, 109, 111,

II2.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (Oxford), 52.
SALE, action for impeding a, 109; con-
tract of, in fair courts, 109-111; in the
Court of Chancery, 297; in the com-
mon law courts, 418.
SALVAGE, 85.

Sanders, 265, 266.
SATISFACTION, 320.
Savile's Reports, 363.

SCABINI, the, 88.

SCANDALUM MAGNATUM, 207.
SCARGILL-BIRD, 263.
SCINTILLA JURIS, 396.
SCRIPTA OBLIGATORIA, 114.

SCRIVENERS COMPANY, 115.

Sea Law of Scotland (Welwod), II.
SECONDARIES, the, 228.

SECTA, the, development of, in fair
courts, 107-108.

SELDEN, his life, 407-408; his works,
408-409; his characteristics, 409-411;
his merits as a legal historian, 411-412;
other references, 15, 43, 59, 101, 337,
345, 376, 472, 482.

SELDEN SOCIETY, the, 412.
SELF-CRIMINATION, the privilege against,
193-194, 333, 420.

SEPARATE USE, the, 312-315.
SERJEANTS, change in position of, 340-
341; payment for degree of, 355.
SERJEANTS AND JUDGES, the, 340-355.
SHARDIUS, 134.

SHEPHERD, William, 391-392; his books
on procedure, equity, and conveyanc-
ing, 397.

Shepherd's Abridgments, 377.
SHERIFFS, incapacity to sit in Parlia-
ment, 448-449.
SHIP-MONEY, 351.

SHIPS, law as to, 73, 85; provisions of
Laws of Oleron as to, 121-122.
SHORT PARLIAMENT, the, 255.
SHOWER, Sir Bartholomew, 161.
SIderfin, 367.

Siderfin's Reports, 363.

SIX CLERKS, the, 228, 230, 232, 256, 265.
SLANDER, see Defamation.

SMITH, Sir Th., 5, 167, 185, 191, 193.
SOLICITOR-GENERAL, generally raised to
the Bench, 341.

Solutio Quæstionis Veteris et Nova
(Zouche), 58.

SOMNER, 403-404; his Saxon dictionary,
403; his treatise on gavelkind. 404.
SOTO, Dominique, 32.
SOUTHWELL, M.R., 260.

SOVEREIGNS, foreign, status of, 39-40.
SOVEREIGNTY, of the state, 49; the
question of, in the seventeenth century,
423-424; Hobbes's theory of, 480, 485.
Sovereignty of the British Seas Proved
(Borough), 10.

Special Law Cases, 359.
SPECIALE MANDATUM REGIS, arrests by,

continental and English deas as to, | TONNAGE and Poundage, 447, 454.
170-178; the ordinary, 178-184; the
extraordinary, 184-188; influence on
each other of Star Chamber and com-
mon law ideas, 188-197; Substantive
law-violent wrong-doing, 197-201;
attempts to commit crimes, 201;
maintenance, etc., 201-203; con-
spiracy, 203-205; defamation, 205-
212; fraud, 212-214; its civil juris-
diction, 214; jurisdiction in commer-
cial cases, 137; organization of, by
Ellesmere, 232; effect of its work on
the Chancellor's equitable jurisdiction,
300.

TORT, equitable relief for, 324-325;
development of law of, 416-417.
TORTURE, use of, abroad, 170-175; in
England, 165, 185-187; how justified,
194; Coke's views as to, 427; effect
of his work in preventing, 493.
TOTHILL, 277.
Touchstone, the, of Common Assurances,
391-392.

STATIONERS, the company of, 363.
STATUTARII, 75.

STAUNFORD, 376, 380, 392, 469.

TOULOUSE, commercial courts at, 95.
Townesend's Tables, 386.
Towns, commercial franchises of, 88-90;
difference between English and con-
tinental, 151.

Transactions of the High Court of
Chancery (Tothill), 274, 276, 277.
TREASON, constructive, 416.

STEPHEN, Sir James, 193, 195, 196, 202, TREATIES, influence of Roman law on,

TABELLIONES, the, 78.

Table Talk (Selden), 409-411.

Termes de la Ley, 159, 401.

Terms of the Law, Bacon's proposal for
a book of, 488.

TERMS OF YEARS, used to evade the
Statute of Uses, 304, 306.
Testaments (Swinburn), 14.
TESTIMONY, actions to perpetuate, 282,
333-

TEUTONIC ORDER, the, 31.
THELOALL, S., 380-381.
THIRTY YEARS' WAR, 44.

TITLES PRETENDED, purchase of, 202,
203.

Titles of Honour (Selden), 408.
TOLLS, of a market, 87, 88, 103-104.

272.

TRIALS, English and continental com-
pared, 195-196.

TRICE-MARTIN, 263, 284.

TROVER, development of, 417; effect on
jurisdiction of the courts of fairs, 117,
143; on equity, 282, 301; effect of
equitable specific relief on, 299.
TRUCE OF GOD, the, 32.
TRUSTS, development of, in sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, 304-309;
classification of, 304-305; creation of,
305-306; legality of object of, 306;
duties of trustees, 306; liabilities of
trustees, 306-307; of uses, 307-309.
TRUTH, at common law a defence to an
action for defamation, 207; not in the
Star Chamber, 210.

TUDORS, their reverence for the common
law, 435.

TUDOR STATESMANSHIP, Coke's work,
the complement of, 490-491.
TUNSTALL, Cuthbert, 4-5.
Twiss, Travers, 125.

TYNDAL, Master, 259, 260.

U

ULPIAN, 28.
UNDERWRITING, 73.

UNDUE INFLUENCE, 326, 328.
UNIFORMITY OF ENGLISH LAW, Coke's
work makes for, 492.

UNINCORPORATE BODIES, power to sue
in the Chancery, 280.

UNIVERSITY MEN, members of the Inns
of Court, 344-345; effect of this on
the law, 346.

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY, 197-199.
USE UPON A USE, evolution of doctrine
as to, 307-309.

USES, Statute of, 220, 223, 304, 416;| WHITELOCKE, Bulstrode, 343; James,
Bacon's Reading on, 395-396, 460; 231, 343, 344, 345, 347, 348, 350, 353.
Coke's Reading on, 460.
WILLIAMS, Bishop, 226-227, 235, 271.
USURY, 84, 93, 97, 135; evasion of WILLIAMS, J., 347.
prohibition of, 80.

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