INDEX. John (King), his imbecility turned to account, 24. 373 Judges, their commission defined, 68; their circuits, 135; corrupt ones Justice impartially administered in England, 246, 283; exemplified by Justinian code, 111; a syllabus of, 350. King, his legislative authority, 56, 61, 73-76; defined, 242; the pre- rogatives of the Crown, 61–63, 65, 147, 193; his legal revenue, 66; King's Bench Court, 89. Kings of England, remarkable fatalities of several, 255. Law, common or unwritten, 84; its source, 85; in civil matters, 91- Lawyers, their duties defined, 95-103. Legislative power, as consisting of the King, Lords, and Commons, Lero, lero, lillebulero, a ballad, 299. Lex Calpurnia de repetundis, 232. Lex Junia, a Roman law, 233. Lex Porcia, a Roman law, 231. Lex Sempronia, a Roman law, 232, 233. Liberty, its early struggles in France, 19; more successful in England, Lolme (John Louis de). See De Lolme. Lord Privy Seal, 366. Lord Chancellor. See Chancellor. Lords, House of. See Peers. Louis XV. and his parliament, 269, 279. Madox (Thomas) on the origin of the word Exchequer, 88. Machiavelli's History of the Republic of Florence, quoted, 146. Magna Charta, how obtained, 24; its provisions, 25; confirmed by Marlborough (Duke of) his removal by Queen Anne, 266. Mary, Queen, her merciless bigotry, 40. Masseres (Baron) revised De Lolme's Essay, 2. Master of the Rolls, his duties, 113. Maud (St.) the treaty concluded there, 27. Meetings for political purposes permitted in England, 282 Memius, a Roman citizen, executed, 232. Mezeray on the insurrection of the Flemings, 19. Military laws of England, 287. Mirror of Justice, by Andrew Horn, 85. Misprision of treason, its penalty, 128. Monarchies, the instability of ancient and modern compared with the stability of the English, 226, 252; the former sustained by the army, Money Bills, 237, 258. Montesquieu quoted, 39, 200, 301, 316. Montpeson (Sir Giles) degraded, 244. More (Sir Thomas) on censorial tribunals, 200; his Utopia quoted, ib. Navigation laws, their abolition recommended, 359. News Examiner, projected by De Lolme, 3. Newspapers a public benefit, 206, 209. Nobility, the annihilation of this power in France and England, 43. Novellæ, Justinian's new laws, 352. Ostracism, an arbitrary expedient of the republic of Athens, 273. Oyer and Terminer, Commission of, 136. Præmunire, statute of, first enacted, 35; its penalties, 140, 142. Prætors, Roman, their edicts, 107, 111; their office, 110. Parliament, origin of, 59; town and boroughs first represented in, 28; Parliament, the Long, noticed, 45; state of the navy under it, 46. People, frequently misled by popular leaders, 149-151; their share Petty bag office, what, 101. Philippe Augustus, his character, 24. Popilius, a Roman ambassador, 269. Post-master General, 366. Poynings (Sir Edward) introduces the English laws into Ireland, 349. Press, its liberty established, 50, 199, 209, 274, 282; and not legally Prime minister appointed by the sovereign, 365. Prisoners, criminal, how proceeded against, 122-128. Prorogation of parliament, 58, 268, 310. Provisors, statute of, first enacted, 35. Qualifications of members of parliament, 53. Queen's Bench Court, its jurisdiction, 90. Rainulph de Glanville, reputed author of Tractatus de Legibus et Con- Reform Bill opposed by William IV., 360. Representatives, their qualifications, 52; the system still imperfect 144; its advantages to the people, 178; their election, 211; their Reporters of parliamentary proceedings, 210, 281. Republican governments, their disadvantages, 169, 186. Resistance, right of, admitted by the English laws, 213; Blackstone's Revolutions, in England, have terminated in favour of liberty, 219, 226; Rhegium, execution of the soldiers for pillaging, 231. Roman codes, various, 350. Roman commonwealth, its various revolutions unfavourable to liberty, Roman judges, whence chosen, 233. Roman jurisconsults, 97. Roman laws introduced into England, 82; and rejected, 84. Roman tribunes and the people, 181, 187-191, 305. Rousseau quoted, 160, 169, 176, 200, 308. Royal authority in the case of minors, 260. Royal household in England,.148. Royal prerogative, 268, 310. Runny-Mead, meeting of King John and the barons there, 25. Scipio Nasica and the Romans, 181. Scotland, the number of representatives it sends to parliament, 52; the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 365; for Foreign Affairs, Session, parliamentary, 56-58. Sessions, county and borough, 125, 135. Sevigné (Madame de) on granting the supplies in France, 328. Six bloody articles of Henry VIII., 39. Smith (Dr. Adam) on a standing army, 285. Social war, or the revolt of the Italians, 234. Sons, the Roman formality of emancipating, 106. Spain, its states formerly democratic republics, 33, 262; origin of the Spanish monarchy, 33. Spartacus noticed, 209. Speaker of the House of Commons, 57. Spelman (Sir Henry) on the conquest, 13. Spurius Mælius, his death, 231. Star chamber, its jurisdiction, 40, 41, 201, 291; abolished, 44, 201, 309. Stuart dynasty, 42-51, 293. Sweden, its senate invades the royal authority, 261, 319; its executive Swift (Dean) on Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough, 266. Taxes first levied by the joint consent of Lords and Commons, 30; the Tooly's case of homicide, 215. Torture used by the Greeks, 250; in England, 251; its abolition in Trail Bâton, establishment of this court, 30. Treason, high, legal proceedings in cases of, 128; in cases of a peer, 131. Trevor (Sir John) expelled the Commons, 244. Trial by jury of Saxon origin, 23; revived by Henry II., ib.; in Tribonian, compiler of the Justinian Code, 351, 352. Tribuneship instituted at Rome, 221, 223. Tudors, the power of the princes, 36, 293. Twelve Tables, the laws of, 97, 106, 107, 250, 275. Venetian republic, its despotism, 275; the people deprived of their Verres, his guilt and punishment, 234. Virgil (Polidore) on the Exchequer Court, 88. Viriatus noticed, 209. Walpole's administration, 301. Warrants, general, considered, 309. Washington (George), his character, 362. William I. his conquest of England, 13; introduces the feudal system, 14; his despotic tyranny, 17; divides England into military fiefs, William III., invested with the sovereignty, 50, 154. William IV. opposes the Reform Bill, 360. Wolcott (Dr.) his notices of De Lolme, 3, 5, 6. Woodfall, his prosecution for publishing Junius' Letters, 130. Writ of Capias, 92; of the English Courts, 92-101. Writs issued by the sovereign to convoke a parliament, 54, 73; the THE END. WILSON AND OGILVY, 57, SKINNER STREET, SNOWHILL, LONDON. BOHN'S VARIOUS LIBRARIES. Prose Works, complete. 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