lishing prelacy, app. stat.
218.

1690, c. 1, supremacy, app.
stat. 218.

c. 2, restoring presbyterian
clergymen, app. stat. 218.

c. 27, recissory act, i, 41,
ii, 214.
-1695, c. 12, against irregular
baptisms and marriages, ibid.
app. stat. 124.

c. 33, comprehending, i,
321.

1696, c. 32, act of grace,

275.

ii,

Acts of sederunt, 1595, Dec. 31,
anent notaries, i, 42,

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striking the fars, ii, 90.
June 1671, for relief of per-
sons whose lives are in danger
from confinement, ii, 273, a.
Advocation, is procedure stop-
ped by, i, 277.
Adultery, divorce, an account of,
ii, 225.

Affinity a bar to marriage, ii,
198..

different kinds of, ii, 199
from an illicit intercourse,
ii, 199, c.

spiritual, ii, 200.
Affray, i, 369, 370.

Age, persons under, ii, 251.

ing stamps in the linen manu-
facture, ii, 676.

Alder, is it timber under 6G.III,
c. 48, ii, 494.
Alehouses, haunting after ten at
night, ii, 323.

licence, by whom, and for
what may it be recalled, i, 35.
Alemoor lord (Andrew Pringle)
his opinion as to the lord ad
vocate's liberty to refuse con-
currence, i, 85.
Alexander II, improvement in
the criminal jurisprudence
during his reign, i, 375.
Alfred the Great, his institution
of franc pledges, i, 380.
Aliment till the term, widow's
claim to, ii, 224-

of lawful children, ü, 242-
of natural children, ii, 246.
See bastard.

of a prisoner for debt, ii,

276,
Allegiance, oath of, i, 35
Allocation of teinds, rules of, ii,
477.

Allodial, is the minister's glebe,
ii, 400.

Almsgiving, compulsory among
the Jews, ii, 13.
Alteration in a building belong
ing to more than one proprie
tor, ii, 374.

Alveus of a river, encroachments
on, ii, 377.

Ambrose, St. his testimony as to

the antiquity of the priest's
blessing in marriage, ii, 206,
Amusements, statutory regula
tions concerning, ii, 7.
Ann in ecclesiastical law,

453.

Articles of union, as to the pre-
servation of the presbyterian
form of church government,

ii, 312, 313.
Articles exhibited in a criminal
trial, i, 223,

Articles of war, by whom made,
ii, 601.

how limited, ii, 601.

Artificial proof, i, 214.

Augustine St. of Hippo, his
rules followed by regulars, ii,
416, b.
Augustus Cæsar challenged by
Mark Antony to single com-
bat, i, 354, a.

used lotteries as a pastime
at entertainments, ii, 263.

B

kingdom, ii, 690.

Ash, is it timber under 6th Geo.
III, c. 38, ii, 494.
Asp, is it timber under 6th Geo.
III, c. 48, ii, ibid.
Assemblings, seditious, i, 350.
Assessment, for the poor, ii, 29.
-wise and salutary provisions

of the Scottish law, ii, 33.
- for the salary of the parochial
schoolmaster, ii, 291.
Assize. See Jury.

-

of bread, ii, 90.
Associations for preserving the
game, legality of, i, 79.
Assurance, oath of, 35.
Atheism, laws concerning, i,
326.
-ought it to be punishable by

the magistrate, ii, 327, e.
Athenian law, permitted mar-
riage between brother and sis-
ter by the father, ii, 198, a.
Attachment See Arrest.

anciently the beginning of
actions, i, 406.
Attestation of inlisted soldiers,
ii, 605.
Avoirdupois, ii, 143.
Augustine St. of Canterbury,
the pope's letter to him, the
first instance of the canon law
computation, ii, 197.

Bail under the act 1701, c. 6, i

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if the minister refuse to pro
claim, i, 108.

Bann in feudal law, i, 320.
Baptisms, right of the kirk-ses-

sion to exact fees at, ii, 27.
Barley. See Bear.

Barn, does a manse include, ii,
397.

Baron courts, are they of record,
i, 62.

Barony boroughs of, are they
bound to have prisons, ii, 255.
Basileus. See Emperor.
Bastard aliment, how competent
before the sessions, i, 104.
decrees how enforced, i

Bear, ii, 445.

Beating on account of a gaming
quarrel, ii, 361.

Bede's account of the establish-
ment of christianity in North
Britain, ii, 298, k.
Beech, is it timber under 6th

Geo. III, c. 48, ii, 494.
Beggars, acts concerning, ii, 20,
app. stat. 109.
Behaviour. See surety.
Bell of the church, ii, 367.
Beneficium competentiæ, ii, 280.
Benefices, of old, how divided,
ii, 400.

act making ecclesiastical per-
sons leave the benefice as good
as they found it, ii, 411.
Benefit, what necessary in case of
a mutual fence, ii, 507.
of clergy, ii, 180.
Benevolences, why taxes were so
called, ii, 577-

Birch, is it timber under 6

Geo. III, c. 48, ii, 494
Bishop's churches, names of, ii,
416, e.

when he appointed one to
serve the cure for him, was it
a presentation or collation, ii,
419, h.

teinds, ii, 450, 451.
Blackstone Sir William, his view
of the toleration act, ii, 230.
- his opinion as to the king's
property in the game examin-
ed, by Dr. Christian, ii, 522.

his severe remark respect-
ing the qualification required
by the English game laws, il,
525.
Bleaching of linen cloth, ii, 672.
Boatmen, ferry, are they liable in
staute labour, ii, 473.

of David I, i, 19.

- his account of David I, judg
ing causes, ib.

-

-

his account of the mobile off-
cium of the court of session,
i, 124.

his poetical eulogium on Scot-
land, ii, 283.

his political speculations tinc-
tared with ancient learning, ii,
299.

Buckler and knife, who obliged
to have, ii, 645.

Bulæus, his account of the origin
of the university of Paris, ii,
283, f.

Burning of wood, ii, 493.
Burying-ground. See church-
yard.

religious among the Romans,
ii, 367.

ing schools, ii, 285.

on whom did it lay the ex-
pence of repairing the church,
ii, 454, 455-

Capacity, English measures of,
il, 144.

Capital punishments, after what
interval can they be put in ex-
ecution, i, 274-

on what principle justifi-
able, i, 174-

methods of infliction in
different countries, i, 174.

letters, according to lord
Stair, our duty to parents is
written in the human heart
with, ii, 238.
Card-makers must pay their
workmen in money, ii, 192.
Carriages meeting on the high-
way, ii, 470.
wheels, ii, 481.

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for soldiers, ii, 616.
Cart, penalty for riding on, ii,
468.

C

Caledonians, ancient, ii, 298, k.
Calumny, oath of, i, 233.

when the pursuer must give
his, i, 82.

Camden Lord, his definition of
the discretion of a judge, i,
125.

Cambrics, or French lawns, ii,
673.

-stamping of, ii, 675.

Cameronians, ii, 302.

Canon law computation, ii, 197.

two carts not to go abreast, ii,
469.

- not to be left in the streets
without a driver, ii, 470.
— and horses, who liable to fur-
nish them, or who may con-
tribute money for the high-
way, ii, 475.

road servitude of, ii, 387.
Cases, Adam against Lowther,
aliment, ii, 243.

- Agnew, Sir Stair, aliment, ii,
240, & app. III.
Aikman against Davidson,
dissenters, ii, 321.

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explanation of, ib,