Contempt of court, 261, 316, 602.

Continuance, plea puis darreign,
508, 509.

Continuances, 508, n.
Continuing actions, 369.
Contract and tort, 313.
actions on, 429.
as to land, 461.
breach of, 429.
express, ib.
implied, ib.
simple, 476.

Contradiction of witness, 538, 539.

Contribution to common fund, 51, n.
Contributories, 24.

Contumacious and in contempt,
sentence of being, 317.
Conusance, claim of, 300, n.
Conversion of goods, 425.
Conveyances by water, 187–190.
public, 180-190.

Convict prisons, directors of, 126.
Convicts, where confined, 125-
127.

Copy, proof by, 543.

Copyhold land, execution on, 587.
Copyright, infringement of, 429.
Corn, distress on, 250.

Corporate body-see BODY COR-

PORATE.

name, 11.

Corporation aggregate, 4, 11.

by prescription, 8.
civil, 6.

disabilities of, 13.

Corporation, dissolution of, 29.
ecclesiastical, 5.
eleemosynary, 6, 7.
how created, 8.
how dissolved, 29.
how sued, 11.

incidents of a, 11-25.
in the universities, 6.
lay, 5.

municipal, 31-41.
name of, 11.
nature of, 2, 3.
officers, 12.
of London, 30.
origin of, 3.
qualified, 19.
sole, 4.

visitation of, 8, 25.

Correction, house of, 122.
Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elec-
tions) Act (1872), 35, n., 334.
Cost of relief of pauper, 62, n.
Costs, 574, 608.

at discretion of court, 577.
double, 574, n., 617.
enactments as to, 575.
from executors, 575, n.
in dower, 608.

in mandamus, 633, n.
in quare impedit, 612, 613.
in replevin, 617.

of particular issues, 575.
on appeal, 580.

on petition of right, 658.
taxing, 566, 574, n.

to and from the Crown, 658,
670.

to defendant, 575.
treble, 574, n.

when disallowed, 576.
Couchant, 249.

Council, borough, 35-37.
of the senate, 6, n.
of judges, 480, n.

Councillors, 35.
Counsel, 272-277.

cannot sue for fees, 275.
freedom of speech of, 276.
privileges of, 276, 277.

Counter claim, 503.
Count in dower, 606, n.

Country causes, 517.

Counts in declaration, 509, n.

County Juries Act (1825), 516.

Court, archdeacon's, 305.

bail, 331, n.
barmote, 348, n.
baron, 279.
consistory, 305.
county, 283-292, 421.
ecclesiastical, 302-317.
high, of justice, 347-355.
hundred, 281.

Lord Mayor's, 293, n.
military, 335, n.

of admiralty, 341–346.
of appeal, 355.

of appeal in chancery, 331.

of arches, 306.

of bankruptcy, 346.

of chancery, 320-331.

of chivalry, 335, n.

of common pleas, 333, 334.

of delegates, 307, 345.

of divorce, 346.

of exchequer, 334.

chamber, 333.

of great sessions in Wales,
317, n.

of high commission, 309, n.
of hustings, 293, n.

of judicature, supreme, 318
-357.

of justice, 278.

of peculiars, 306.

palace, 317, n.

payment into, 383, 505.
prerogative, 305, n.
stannaries, 298.
of sheriff, 282.

Courts at Westminster, 340.

borough, 293.
Christian, 304.
forest, 317, n.

in general, 267–277.
inferior, 269, 278–317.
local, 292.
London, 292, n.
maritime, 341.
marshalsea, 317, n.
not of record, 269.
nisi prius, 349, 484.
of appeal, 355–357.
of assize, 340, 484.

of commissioners of sewers,
296.

of conscience, 284.
Saxon, 302.

of record, 269, 281, 292.
of requests, 284.

of the counties palatine, 347.
of the cinque ports, 347, n.
spiritual, 302-317.
superior, 269.
university, 299.
voluntary, 309, n.

Covenant, action of, 363.

as to title, 430.
in a lease, ib.

Covert pound, 255.

Credibility of witness, 533, 534, 538.
Criminal conversation, action for,
437.
lunatics, 116.

Cross appeal, 581, n.

Cross-bill, 598, 600.

Cross-examination, 538.
Crown, debts, 662.

injuries proceeding from,
654.

injuries affecting, 658.

402, n., 404.

Dangerous animals, 375.

Darreign continuance, plea puis,

508, 509.

presentment, assize of,
415, n., 484.

Dartmoor, convicts at, 126, n.
Dean of the arches, 306.

Death by negligence, action for, 370.
of parties, pending action,
592.

Deaths, registration of, 236.
Debt, action of, 363, 431.
information of, 669.

Debtor, absconding, 497.

Debtors' Act (1869), 289, n., 436, n.,
497, 572, n., 602, n.

Debts, corporation, 38.
judgment, 574.

simple contract, 476.
small, 283.

specialty, 478.

Deceased body, dissection of, 214.

Deceit, writ of, 577, n.

Decem tales, 528.

interlocutory, ib.

Decretal order, 599.

Dedication, highways by, 130.

De ejectione firma, writ, 393.
De excommunicato capiendo, 316.
Defamation, 377–383.

suits for, 310, n.

Defamatory libels, 381.

words, 377.

Default, judgment by, 506, 567, 569.
Defectum, challenge propter, 524.
Defence, dilatory, 502.

equitable, 504, n.

peremptory, 502.
self, 241.

Defendant in an action, 491-498.

in ejectment, 619.

in quare impedit, 418.
quitting England, 497.
service on, 494.

Deferred annuities, 84.

Definitive sentences in ecclesiastical
court, 315.

Deforcement, ouster by, 387.
Deforciant, 391.

De homine replegiando, 643, n.
Delegates, court of, 307, 345.
Delictum, challenge propter, 526.
Deliverance, second, writ of, 616.
Delivery of statement of complaint,
500.

of bill, by attorney, 218.
De medietate linguæ, jury, 522, n.
Demurrer, 501.

argument of, 511.
book, ib.

general, 501, n.

Depositions of witnesses, 532, 600.
Deprivation, sentence of, 315.
Deptford Strond, Trinity House of,
156.

Deputy county court judge, 285, n.,
recorder, 37, n.

De retorno habendo, 616.
Derivative settlement, 52.
Descent cast, 391, 394.
Desertion of wife, 57, 61, n.
Destitute wayfarers, 51, n.
Detainer of the freehold, 387.
of the person, 384.
unlawful, 423.

Detinue, action of, 363, 364, 582.
execution in, 582.

Diem clausit extremum, 668.

Dies fasti et nefasti, 482.

Dilapidations, 313, 408.

Dilatory pleas, 502.

Direct evidence, 541.

Directors of companies, 19, n.
of convict prisons, 126.

Disability, rights of persons under,
471, 476, 479.

Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society,
91, n.

Discharge of jury, 550, 553.
pleas in, 503.

Discontinuance of action, 568.

ouster by, 388.

Discovery by interrogatories, 532,

598.

in equity, 598.

of debts due to judgment
debtor, 588.

of trusts for Papists, 419.

Dissection of dead bodies, 214.
Diseases Prevention Act (1855),

174.

Dispensation in pharmacy, 207, n.
Dissection after execution, 214.
Disseisin, ouster by, 386.
Dissenters, relief of, 80.
Dissolution of corporation, 29.
Distrained goods, rescue of, 254.
Distraining, 245.
Distress, 245-257.

cattle trespassing, 246.
damage feasant, 245, 246,
249, 251, 252, 254.
excessive, 253.
exemptions from, 247.
for rent, 245, 256, 409.
for services, 245.
illegal, 257.
impounding of, 254.
infinite, 254, n.

of lodger's goods, 248.
of stranger's goods, ib.
of fixtures, 250.
sale of, 256.

things exempted from, 247
-251.

under acts of parliament,

247, n.

where it lies, 245.

Distributions, statute of, 83.
District registries, 491, n.
county courts, 283
421.

highway, 136.

schools, 93.

surveyor of highways, 134.

Distringas in detinue, 582.

to compel appearance,
495, n.

Disturbance, injury of, 410.

of common, 411.
of franchise, ib.

of patronage, 414, 610.
of tenure, 414.
of ways, 413.

Diversion of highway, 136.
Diversité des Courtes, 327.

Divisional courts of High Court of
Justice, 354, 514, n.

Divorce, court of, 275, n., 346, 438.

Doctors' Commons, 306, n.