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ABBOTT, Chief Justice, on libel, ii. 371
Abigei in Roman law, i. 27
Abington's trial, i. 331
Aboo Huneefah, iii. 285, 292 Aboo Yoosuf, iii. 285, 292 Abortion, procuring, Roman law as to, i. 25; Anglo-Saxon law, 54 Abus de confiance, iii. 174 Accessories in criminal acts, the law as to, ii. 229-236; origin of the law as to, 231; accessories after the fact, 233; no accessories in treason, 233; statutes as to accessories, 235; modern legislation as to, 235; pro- posal of Criminal Code Commissioners as to, 236, 237; French law as to, 238, 239; German law as to, 239, 240
Accidental killing, law as to, iii. 15, 16
"Accroaching" royal power, the crime of, and law as to, ii. 246 et seq. Accusation and trial, procedure by,
ACCUSATION, FORMS OF, i. 244-272 Act of the Six Articles on heresy, effect of the, ii. 457 et seq. Acte d'accusation, i. 537, 538 Actions, penal, i. 4
Admiral, ancient jurisdiction of the, ii. 16; procedure in the court of the, 17 Admiralty, Black Book of the, ii. 17; jurisdiction of the, 17-28; in Admiral's Court, 17; by commissioners, 20; of Central Criminal Court, 21; of Courts of Assize, 21; of Indian Courts, 21; of Colonial Courts, 21; under Consolidation Acts of
1861, 22; under Merchant Shipping Acts, 23; local limits of, 25 Adolphus, Gustavus, British troops in the army of, iii. 258
Adulteriis, Lex Julia de, i. 14 Adultery, Roman law as to, i. 14-16; Anglo-Saxon law as to, 54; punish- ment of, ecclesiastically, ii. 423 ; Indian Penal Code on, iii. 318 Ethelbirht, the laws of, i. 51 et seq., iii. 23, 108
Ethelstan, the laws of, i. 51 et seq., iii. 25
Aggravated theft in Roman law, i. 28 Ailward, trial of, for theft in the reign of Henry II., i. 78-80 Aitchison, Sir Charles, his legislative work in India, iii. 296 Alabama, the, iii. 261, 262 Albigenses, destruction of, no effect on laws of England, ii. 442 Alexandra, the, iii. 262
Alfred, the laws of, i. 51 et seq.; on homicide, iii. 24; on accidental death, 28
Aliens, law as to, ii. 4 et seq.; Depardo's case, 5; the case of Serva and others in the Felicidade, 7; of Lopez, 8; the case of Keyn in command of the Franconia, 10, 29-61
Almon, trial of, ii. 324 Alothhære, the laws of, i. 51 et seq. Ambitus, Lex Julia, i. 24 Amercements and fines, account of, ii. 198, 199
Amos, Catherine, iii. 375
Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, i. 51
Anesty, history of the plea of Richard d', i. 88
Auger, effects of, in criminal acts, how regarded legally, ii. 164
ANGLO-SAXON CRIMINAL LAW, i. 51- 74; Leges Henrici Primi, 51; con- nection with Roman Law, 52; laws of Edward the Confessor, 52; the Mir- ror, 52n.; the laws of Alfred, 53:- CRIMES, i. 53-57; plotting against
the king's life, 53; plotting against a lord, 53; fighting in a church, 53; breaking the king's peace, 53; mund-bryce, 54; overseunesse or oferhynes, 54; perjury, 54; heathenism, 54; adultery, 54; procuring abortion, 54; witchcraft, 54; Stredbreche, 54; homicide, 54; wounds, 54; rape, 54; indecent assaults, 54; homicide, attempt to define, in Leges Henrici Primi, 55; in- flicting bodily harm, 56; theft, 56; robbery, 56; forestel and hamsocna, 56; bernet, 57; coin- ing, 57
PUNISHMENTS, i. 57-59; death, 57; mutilation, 57; flogging, 57; imprisonment not men- tioned, 57; wer, bot, and wite, 57; punishments on a first con- viction, 57; punishment upon a second conviction, 58; inexpi- able crimes, 58; Cnut's principle as to punishment, 58; capital punishment, 59
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, i. 59-64; infangthief, law of, 59; pur- gation and ordeal, law of, 59; the wer, 60; private war, 60; frith-bryce and mund-bryce, 60; the king's peace, 60; trial by combat, 61; presumption of law as to travellers, law of Ina, 61 INFANGTHIEF, or the law of summary execution, i. 61-64; Ina on infangthief, 62; Æthel- stan on, 62; the Judicia Civitatis Lundonia on, Edward the Confessor on, 63; the Hundred Rolls on, 64; Halifax custom of, 64; Sir Francis Palgrave on, 64 POLICE ORGANISATION, i. 64-66; territorial divisions, 65; the kingdom, 65; the shire or county, and the hundred or wapentake, 65; burhs, 65; frank pledge, 65; frank pledge, view of, 65; tithings and hundreds, 65; liberties or franchises, 65; track- ing thieves and stolen cattle, 66 COURTS OF JUSTICE, i. 67-68; township officers, 67; hundred courts, the, 67; county courts, the, 67; courts of franchises,
ANGLO-SAXON CRIMINAL LAW, con- tinued-
the, 67; "suitors," or members of courts, 67; sheriff's tourn, 68; THEIR PROCEDURE, 68-69; wholly oral, 68; procedure by accusation and trial, 68; forms of oaths of accusation, 69 TRIALS, i. 70-74; oath of accused, 70; compurgation or ordeal, 70; character of accused, 70; borhs, 70; accused "led to the plea," 71; borh's oath, 71; evidence of facts, 72; witnesses mentioned in the laws of Henry I., 72; witness's oath, 72; ordeals, 73; account of the various kinds of, 73; if they failed, the accused was convicted, 73; consequences, 73, 74
Animals, proposed amendment of the law as to theft of, iii. 163 Anne of Cleves, marriage of, ii. 255n., 258
Annona, Lex Julia de, i. 22 Antimony, conflict of medical testi- mony as to poisoning by, ii. 458 et seq. Apostasy, clerk burnt for, at Oxford, in 13th century, ii. 440 Appeals-private accusations-under Richard II., i. 151; second set of, under, 153; under Henry IV., 154; abolished in Parliament, 155; mode of making appeals, 245; procedure of in Bracton, 245; made before coroner, 245; proclaimed at five county courts, 246; if no appearance, outlawry, 246; inlawry, 246; exceptions by appellee, 246; if no exception, battle, 246, 247; history of appeals, 247-250; appeals of treason in realm abolished, 1399, 247; appeal of treason out of realm in 1631, 247; appeals for blows, wounds, false imprisonment, may be merged in actions of tort, 247; appeals of robbery and larceny, 247; appeals of arson and rape, 247; appeals of murder favoured by rule of 1482, 248; after statute 3 Hen. 7, c. 1, nearly superseded by indictments, 248; case of Ashford v. Thornton, 1818, 249; abolition of appeals by 59 Geo. 3, c. 46, 250; appeals by approver, 250; Appeals-from in- ferior to superior courts-nature of proceedings in, 308-318; writ of error, 308; the record, 308, 309; history of writs of error in criminal cases, 309, 310; motions for new trials in criminal cases, 310, 311; case of R. r.
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