674

P.

relief to wife of, ii. 281, n.

refusing to work, iii. 180

when not removable, iii. 183

Pauperis, petitioning in formâ, ii. 161
suing in formâ, iii. 673

Paving Acts, iii. 246
Pawnbrokers, ii. 73, 80, 96
Act, ii. 73

Pawns, by agent, ii. 77, 79
Pay of the navy, ii. 45, 620, n.
Payee, ii. 113

Payment by joint debtor, iii. 573
of money into court, iii. 600
of seamen, iii. 265, n.

where presumed, iii. 630, n.,
644, n.

Peace and war, prerogative as to, ii. 513
breach of the, ii. 527; iv. 332,

Pasture, common of, i. 658
Pataleon Sa's case, ii. 509

373, 457

clerk of the, iv. 399

commission of the, iii. 433

justices of the, ii. 663- see Jus-

TICES.

offences against the public, iv.

328

under the queen's, iv. 154

Peace, recognizance to keep the, iv. 371
Peculatus, iv. 270

Peculiars, court of, iii. 441

Pecuniary consideration of bargain and

sale, i. 254
matter of form,
i. 544

satisfaction, liability to make
in manslaughter, iii. 484;
iv. 150, n.

Pedigrees, falsification of, iv. 230

Peerages, different classes of, ii. 345, n.
for life, ii. 629, n.

Peeresses, ii. 631; iv. 382, 525, n.

Peers, ii. 360, 473, 623

by patent, ii. 628, 629

by tenure, ii. 627, 628

by writ, ii. 628

election of, for Scotland and Ire-

land, ii. 345

for Ireland, i. 100

for life, ii. 629, n.
for Scotland, i. 90

house of, ii. 345, 360; iii. 429;

iv. 379, 382, 548

how created, ii. 345, 473, 535,
628, 629

how deprived, ii. 632, 633
not eligible to house of com-
mons, ii. 378

privileges of, ii. 356, 360, 473,
630, 631, 632 -see IRISH
PEERS and SCOTCH PEERS.
proxies of, ii. 361
spiritual, ii. 342

trial of, iv. 379, 382, 472, 502
Peine forte et dure, iv. 476, 604

Penal action, iii. 552, 575

Penal servitude, i. 153, n.; iii. 240, n.,

241; iv. 533
escaping from, iv. 309

statutes, i. 71

information on, iv. 314,
458

Penalties, contracts secured by, ii. 110
Penalty of a bond, ii. 107, 109
Penance, dispensation of, iv. 256
Pendente lite, administration, ii. 211
Penitentiary at Millbank, iii. 240
Penny savings banks, iv. 212
Pensions, i. 656, 657, n."

duties on, ii. 595

from the Crown, ii. 537

in capital cases, iv. 152, n., 324,
subornation of, iv. 323

Permissive waste, i. 263, 293, n., 296,
299; iii. 525

Per my et per tout, i. 346

Per pais, iii. 613-see JURY, TRIAL BY.
Per patriam, iv. 502—see JURY, TRIAL

BY

Perpetual curate, iii. 25, 31
Perpetuation of testimony, iv. 46
Perpetuity, doctrine of, i. 475, n., 560,
562; ii. 13

Per quod, laying action with a, iii. 492
consortium amisit, iii. 555
servitium amisit, iii. 556
Persecution, religious, iii. 48

Person, committee of the, ii. 534

definition of, in the statutes of

limitations, iii. 566, n.

indecent exposure of, iv. 361

injuries to the, iii. 486
offences against the, iv. 130-

182

of the Queen, attempts to in-

jure, iv. 506, 510

stealing from the, iv. 208
Persons capable of committing crimes,

iv. 106

Persona impersonata, iii. 30
Personal actions, iii. 475, 483

Acts of parliament, i. 71; iii.

575
annuity, i. 305

Petitioning, tumultuous, iv. 335

Petitions, interlocutory, in chancery, iv.
65

Petit larceny, iv. 203

serjeanty, i. 215

treason, iv. 160, 161, 233, n.
abolished, iv. 161

Petroleum, iv. 356, n.

Petty bag office, iii. 417

constables, ii. 673

sessions, ii. 670; iii. 190; iv. 410
-413

Pews, iii. 42, 69, 449

Pharmaceutical Society, iii. 317, n.
Pheasant, a fowl of warren, i. 679

Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries,

Piracy, crime of, iii. 457; iv. 23, 299
of works, ii. 38; iv. 45

Pirates, recapture from, ii. 18, n.
Piscary, common of, i. 661

Pitt Press, iii. 299

Pixing the coin, ii. 543, n.

Places of public amusement, iii. 308
Plagiarii, iv. 177, n.

Plague, provisions respecting, iii. 278
Plaint for free-bench or dower, abo-
lished, iii. 699

in county courts, iii. 399-see
COUNTY COURTS (NEW).

Plaintiff, fictitious, iv. 316

Plants, fruits, &c., injuries to, iv. 223
stealing, iv. 206, n.

Play grounds, public, i. 465
houses, iii. 308; iv. 352

Play, stage, copyright in, ii. 40
Plea, declinatory, iv. 482, n.

dilatory, iii. 597; iv. 485
equitable, iii. 599, n., 601, n.
in abatement, iii. 597; iv. 485
in bar, iii. 597, 708; iv. 486
in bar of execution, iv. 554
in discharge, iii. 598
in equity, iv. 53

in justification, iii. 598
in scire facias, iii. 697
in suspension, iii. 597

of benefit of clergy- -see BENEFIT
OF CLERGY.

of misnomer, iii. 597, n. ; iv. 485
of nonjoinder, iii. 597, n.

of not guilty, iii. 597; iv. 490, 504
of privilege, iii. 612

of sanctuary, iv. 482, n.
peremptory, iii. 597

side of the exchequer, iii. 406
special, iii. 598; iv. 486

to an indictment, iv. 482

to the jurisdiction, iii. 597; iv. 483
Pleading over, after demurrer, iv. 484

after special plea, iv.

490

and demurring at the same
time, iii. 605; iv. 490, n.
equitable, iii. 599

in ejectment, iii. 714

special, iii. 593, n.

Pleadings, the, iii. 590, 593–607

none in long vacation, iii.
582, n., 604, n.

opening the, iii. 630; iv. 58

Pleas in dower, iii. 700

in quare impedit, iii. 703

of the Crown, iv. 87

several, iii. 605, n.; iv. 490

Pleasure of the king, imprisonment at
the, iv. 314

Pledge, estates in, i. 303, 310
Pledge in wager of battel, iv. 499

of goods by agent, ii. 77, 79

Plegii de prosequendo, iii. 538, n.
de retorno habendo, iii. ib.

Plena probatio, iii. 637, n.
Plenarty, iii. 531, 703, 704, n.

Plene administravit, ii. 218

Plenum dominium, i. 514

Plough, beasts of, when distrainable, iii.

361

Ploughbote, i. 262, 293

Ploughland, i. 193
Plowden's Reports, i. 52

Plundering wreck, ii. 565; iv. 331, n.
Pluralities, iii. 36, n.

Pluries capias, iv. 467

Poaching, new Act against, ii. 21, n.
by night, ii. 20, n. ; iv. 366

Pocket, picking the, iv. 208
sheriff, ii. 647

Poisoning, iv. 152, 153, n., 156, 166
Police, ii. 673-681; iii. 253, n.

offences against the public, iv.

348

county, ii. 677

superannuation fund, ii. 678, n.
magistrates, ii. 665, n., 666, n.;
iv. 414, n.

Policies in blank, ii. 128

of assurance, ii. 126, 135; iii.

550
court
471, n.

of, iii.

Political or civil liberty, ii. 484
Poll, deed, i. 489

Polling at elections, ii. 386, 388
Polls, challenge to the, iii. 628
Polygamy, ii. 256; iv. 358, n.
Pondus regis, ii. 539

Pone, writ of, iii. 392, 395, 707
Poor, iii. 165-192

casual, iii. 179, 181
chargeable, iii. 169, 179
education of the, iii. 222
in extra-parochial places, iii. 167,

n.

Irish, iii. 165, n.

law amendment Act, iii. 172, 173,
176, 186

law board, ii. 246; iii. 172
law commissioners, iii. 172
laws, i. 123, 145

passing of, to Scotland or Ire-
land, iii. 181, 184, n.

rate, i. 123; iii. 167, 187, 191, n.
allowance of, iii. 189

relief of, iii. 185

removal of, iii. 179–185

Scotch, iii. 165, n.

settled, iii. 167, 179, 181

who compelled to maintain, iii.

186

Poor laws, i. 123, 145

Pope Nicholas' taxation, ii. 552