society, iii. 212, n.

Local actions, iii. 479

Acts of parliament, i. 71; iii. 575
allegiance, ii. 418

and personal Acts, i. 71
boards of health, iii. 283
customs, i. 54, 55

government of towns, &c., iii.

282, 283; iv. 357
inclosure Acts, i. 663

lighthouse authorities, iii. 270
taxes, i. 123; iii. 191, n.

Lock-up houses, ii. 677; iii. 237, n.
Locomotives on roads, iii. 248, n.,

287, n.

Lodging-houses, for labouring classes,
iii. 173, n., 286, n.

Lollardy, iii. 51

London and Westminster sittings, iii.
431

courts in, iii. 467

customs of, i. 56; ii. 226, 228;
iii. 611; iv. 456, n.
franchises of, not to be for-
feited, iii. 153; iv. 15, n.
Gazette, ii. 166, 169; iii. 279
jurors, iii. 626, n.

not included in Municipal
Corporations Act, iii. 156
sanatory improvement of, iii.
286, n.

court of, 382

of court of the uni-

versity, iv. 406

mayor's court, iii. 467, n.

privy seal, ii. 476

Redesdale's Act, ii. 149

Tenterden's Act, ii. 56; iii. 543
steward of the king's household,
court of, iv. 405

warden of cinque ports, ii. 521, n.
appeal to, iii. 467

Lords, house of, ii. 344; iii. 429; iv.
379, 381, 548

justices, ii. 175; iii. 427

laws and customs of the, ii. 360
spiritual, ii. 342; iii. 10; iv. 386
temporal, ii. 344

Lordships (or manors), i. 220

Lord Worsley's Act, i. 664

Loss of a bill of exchange, iii. 641, n.
Lotteries, iv. 355

Lunacy, commissioners in, iii. 230
masters in, ii. 523, n.
regulation Acts, ii. 533

Lunar month, i. 289

Lunatic asylums, iii. 226–232

borough, iii. 226, n.
county, iii. 226-230
in general, iii. 230

bankrupt, ii. 162

cannot sit and vote in parlia-

ment, ii. 379

prisoners for debt, ii. 162; iii.

229

Lunatics, iii. 227; iv. 110, 151, 553
chargeable to a parish, iii.
227

contracts by, ii. 62

conveyances by and to, i. 480
criminal, iii. 229, n.; iv. 110,
111

custody of, ii. 529, 531-(see
LUNATIC ASYLUMS).
excused in criminal cases,

when, iv. 110, 151, 553
in boroughs, iii. 161, n.

666

marriage by, ii. 257
meditating crime, iii. 229
orders for the confinement of,

iii. 228
standing mute, iv. 478
visiting, ii. 534; iii. 227, 231
wandering at large, iii. 229
wives of pauper, ii. 281, n.
Luxury, laws against, iv. 362, n.
Lying in franchise, iii. 368

in grant or in livery, i. 520, 691

Lying-in hospitals, iii. 194, n.
Lyndewoode's Provinciale, i. 66, n.

Mala in se, crimes, i. 39; ii. 507; iv. 96,
97

prohibita, ii. 507; iv. 96, 97
praxis, iii. 490

Male preferred to female in descents, i.
405, 415; ii. 434

Malfeasance, iii. 477

Malice, aforethought or prepense,

154

express, iv. ib.
implied, iv. 156

Malicious arrest, iii. 500

burning, iv. 182
injuries, iv. 222

iv.

apprehension for,
without warrant,
iv. 431

iii.

incidental to an action, iv.
9, 45, n..

to examine witnesses in
India, iv. 5, n.

writ of, iv. 5-10, 72, n.,

604

voluntary, iv. 147

204

Marking bill in equity, iv. 51, n.

Marque and reprisal, ii. 514

letters of, ii. 516

Marquess, ii. 624, 625

Marriage, ii. 253-274

abroad, ii. 273
by banns, ii. 261
by consul, ii. 274
by certificate, ii. 265
by licence, ii. 261
caveat against, ii. 267
contracts in restraint of, ii.
61, n., 112
dispensations by the Pope as
to, iv. 256

effect of, pending action, iii.
696

in chivalry, i. 198
in India, ii. 273, n.
in Scotland, ii. ib.
in socage, i. 212

is a contract, ii. 254
notice book, ii. 265
of Jews, ii. 264, 269
of Quakers, ii. ib.

of the royal family, ii. 273,

472

prohibited degrees in, ii. 259,
260; iv. 256
promise of, ii. 56, 257
registration of, ii. 265, 272
settlement, i. 337; ii. 287
registry of, iii. 343, 346
royal, iv. 267

trial of, iii. 612, n.

Married women-see FEME COVERT.

cannot contract, ii. 63

Mary, queen, ii. 434, 448; iv. 598
Master and servant, ii. 240; iii. 556

may protect servant, ii. 248
power of, over servant, ii. 246
when liable for acts of servant,
ii. 249

of the Crown Office, iv. 459

of the Rolls, ii. 361, n., 381, n.;
iii. 425

Masters in chancery, iii. 426, n.
in lunacy, ii. 533

of ships, iii. 264, 268

Matilda, empress, ii. 441, 442
Matrimonial causes, ii. 253

Matrimony, offences in regard to, ii. 267,

272; iv. 358

Medical jurisprudence, i. 8
register, iii. 318.

relief to paupers, iii. 186

Medicine, administering by an irregular
practitioner, iv. 153
compounding, iii. 317

Medietate, jury de, iii. 623, n.; iv. 407,
507

Meeting-house Act, iii. 58
Meeting-houses, iii. 203
Meeting of creditors, ii. 166
Meetings for military exercise, iv. 282
public, when unlawful, iv. 335

Members of parliament, ii. 347, 356
election of, ii. 364, 392
may be bankrupt, ii. 359
privileges of, ii. 356
qualification of, ii. 380

Membrum pro membro, iv. 163

Memorandum of alteration of patent, ii.

34

of association, iii. 143
of error, iii. 677

Memory, time of legal, i. 58, 694

Menaces-see THREATS.

Menial servants, ii. 243

Mensâ et thoro, divorce à, ii. 290, 292

Mensura Domini regis, ii. 539

Men traps, setting, iv. 179

Mercantile Marine fund, iii. 276
law, i. 56

Mercen-lage, i. 43; iv. 573

Merchant seamen, iii. 263

Shipping Act (1854), iii. 260,
293

Michel-gemote, ii. 333

Michel- synoth, ii. ib.

Middlesex, bill of, iii. 411, n.

sessions, iv. 400

registration of conveyances
in, i. 620, 621, 705

Military asylum at Chelsea, ii. 615, n.
courts, i. 67, n. ; iii. 459, n.
feuds, i. 193

forces, ii. 605-615

hospital, ii. 615

savings banks, iii. 204, n.

tenures, i. 193, 209

testament, ii. 615

Militia, ii. 519, 606, 609, 610; iii.