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ABDY, Dr., 77, 79, 108.

Actio, sacramenti, 52; Per pignoris
capionem, 53; Publiciana, 139, 140.

Action, early forms of, 52.

Acts of Parliament-see Statutes.
Acts of Sederunt, 66, 69.
Adoption, 47, 67.
Advocates, 57, 220.
Esthetics, 10, 26, 362-368.
Æthelbirht, Laws of, 49.
Aged persons, 291.

Ahrens, 201, 253, 349, 382. 408.

Alabama Arbitration, 115, 242, 395.
Aleatory Contracts, 223-see Gaming
debt.

Aliment, duty of, between members
of family, 167.

Allies, 247.

Amendment of Law, 60, 346.
American Civil War, 232, 399.
Amos, Prof., 15, 108, 417.
Amphiktyonic Council, 243.

Ancestors, worship of, 176, 185, 275;
respect for, 317, 361.
Ancient Law, 46-see Maine.
Anglo-Saxon Law, 47-49.
Animals, rights of, 293, 316, 320.
Antinomies of pure reason, 236, 315,
338, 357, 360.

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 353, 382.
Arbitration, 56, 70; international, 243.
Aristotle, 248.

Arrestment on dependence, 53.
Art and part, 384.

Art, progress of, 355; and religion, 368-
370; and science of law, 5; compari-
son of fine arts with law, morality,
and religion, 362; law as an, 1, 2,
5, 23, 38, 368, 377.
Arts of life, 369.
Augustus, laws against celibates, 154.
Austin, 13, 15, 24, 41, 43, 59, 70, 280,
359, 417.

BALANCE of power, 405, 406.
Bankruptcy, 227.

Bar, influence of, on law, 70, 390.

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CANON LAW, 295.

Capital punishment, 98-101.
Capitis diminutio, 296.

160.

Cartesian theory of Universe, 11.
Cases quoted or commented on :-
H.M. Advocate v. Kerr, 82.
Aitchison v. Aitchison, 260.
Baird v. Hamilton, 388.
Barr v. Neilsons, 387.
Bartonshill cases, 390.
Bradlaugh v. De Rin, 240.
Caroline, Queen, 67.
Cookney v. Anderson, 240.
Findlater v. Duncan, 391.
Fletcher v. Rylands, 106.

Fraser v. Dunlop & Montgomerie,
388.
Gordon, 393.

Hawthorne, in re, 240.
Honck v. Muller, 58.

Hunter or Niven v. E. & G.
Canal Co., 389.
Léotade, The Monk, 96.
Lickbarrow v. Mason, 64.
Macgregor v. Ross and Marshall,
106, 112.

M'Naughten, 109.

Mersey Docks Trustees v. Gibbs,
391.

Moffat v. Park, 386.
Orr-Ewing, 265.

Phosphate Co. v. Molleson, 59,
379.

Priestley v. Fowler, 387.

Sibbald v. Lady Rosyth, 387.

Smith, Madeleine, 96.

Sword v. Cameron, 390.

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Consciousness, 5, 36-39, 108, 119, 130,
292, 299, 319, 332, 369.
Conservatism, 40, 148, 244, 370; of
savages, 343-see Liberal.
Consolat del mar, 59.

Constitutional, Law,'63, 75, 186, 400;
idea, 175, 189, 197, 302; despotism,
185.

Contract, 84, 104, 118, 135, 171, 204,
229, 304, 307, 309, 330; social, 39,
178, 207, 243; in ethical relations,
156, 222; Roman, 208-211.
Conveyancing, 2, 310.
Copyright, 127, 149.

Corporations, their personality, 287,
367; their responsibility, 47, 112.
Court of Session, a legislative body,
66, 69.

Cousins, marriages of, 165; succession
of, 264.

Credit system, modern, 149.

see Civil

Crime, 92, and foll., 304, 305, 309, 347;
late definition of, 50
Injury.

Criminal law, 48.

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Crown, as ultimus hæres, 264.
Culpa tenet suos auctores, 317.
Cumberland, 376, 410.

Custom, 14, 68, 342, 346, 369; and
morality, 344.

DARWIN, 166.

Dead's part, 169, 260, 267.

Death, effect of rights, 317-see Suc-
cession.

Debtor, meaning of, 210.

Decalogue, 90, 340, 376.

De facto principle-see Lorimer.
Degrees, prohibited in marriage, 162.
Demangeat, 381.

Democracy, 195, 244, 300.
Dens, Peter, 353, 380.
Design, argument from, 12.
Development-see Evolution.
Dickens, 157, 290.
Digby, 132, 268.
Diocletian, 57.

Disestablishment, 72, 190, 341.

Distress, law of, 51.

Distributions, statute of, 259.

Divorce, 67, 170.

Doge of Venice, 62.

Donation mortis causa, 254.

Drunkard, rights of, 364.

Duelling, 117; in war, 114, 117.

Dutch law of marriage settlements, 174.

Duties on succession, 263.

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Economics-see Political Economy.
Edict-see Praetor.
Edictum perpetuum, 66.

Education by mother, 162; by school-
master, 171; by state, 183, 284.
Embassies, 232, 236.

Employers' Liability Act, 61, 391.
Englishman's house is his castle, an,
236, 318.

Entail, law of, 134, 269.
Equality, 299.

Equity, 41, 48, 60, 62, 349.
Erskine, 67, 379, 380, 384.

Ethics, 10; an art of conduct, 5, 23, 32;
derivation of, 342; in Greece, 4.
Etiquette, 345.

Evolution, 31-40, 303, 305, 308, 336,
360; from lower to higher categories,
329.

Examples, learning by, 79, 301.

Execution, summary, 50, 54; in public,
100.

Executioner, 62.

Experiments in politics, 7, 301.

FACTORY ACTS, 340.

Factors as guardians, 172, 183.
Facts-see Law.
Faliero, Marino, 80.

Family, 47, 48, 50, 150 et foll., 176,

187, 204, 286-see Marriage, Succes-
sion, State, Person.

Farmers, 218.

Fashions, 345.

Father-see Family.

Females, exclusion of, in succession,
271, 275.

Feudalism, 245, 405.

Fiat justitia ruat cœlum, 18.

Fictions, 28, 44, 60, 61, 72, 186, 213,
240, 355.

"Fire and sword," letters of, 113.
Force and fear, 215.

Foreign enlistment, 115-see Statutes.
Foreigners, rights of, 145, 230, 238,
241, 265, 317.

Form and matter, 177, 212, 219,
278.

Formalism in law, 49, 79, 88, 111, 130,
212, 219; in religion, 352.
Fountainhall, Lord, 387.
France, 244, 273.

Franchise, a trust, 189, 191, 369;
extension of, 195; female, 193;
manhood, 188.

Fraud, 98, 154, 161, 166, 211, 215,

218, 228.

Free trade, 238.

Freedom, 71-73, 179, 182, 216, 278;
of contract, 174, 217, 220-see Con-
tract.

French code, 264.
Froude, J. A., 397.

GAMING DEBT, 214.

Gardens, &c., property in, 144.
George, Henry, 130, 146.
Germanic Empire, 86, 177, 199, 280.
God, as legislator, 10, 334, 335, 381;
idea of, solution of antinomies, 337;
law of, 379; rights against, 316,
320.

Gratuitous contracts, disappearing,
220.

Greek, art, 356; ethics 4, 359; law-
givers, 11; state, 297, 300.
Grotius, 253, 405.

Ground-annuals, 61, 133, 310.
Guardianship, 168, 172, 261, 361.
Gundling, 258.

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History, of law, 3, 400; taught through
law, 397-see Roman law, Con-
stitutional law, International law.
Hobbes, 4, 13, 15, 23, 417; definition
of civil law, 14.

Holland, Professor, 4, 322, 396.
Holmes, jr., O. W., 191, 223, 400.
Homeric division of mankind, 403.
Hosack, 396.
Hospitality, 247.

House of Lords, 65, 193, 251.
Howard, the philanthropist, 49.
Humanity, unity of, 249, 276.
Hume, 15, 30.

Hunter's Roman Law, 210.

Husband, responsibility of, for wife,
387-see Family, Marriage, Succes-
sion, Property.
Hutcheson, 5.
Huxley, 375.

IDEA OF RIGHT, 44; made explicit in
judicial decisions, 59; the essence
of the relations between parties, 57;
underlies all the forms of law, 46.
Ideals in law, &c., 354.

Ignorantia juris neminem excusat, 213.
Illegitimate children, 167.
Illiterate voters, 197.

Imbeciles, personality of, 286.
Immoral contracts, 214; laws and
exhibitions, 363.

Imprisonment, for debt, 60, 94, 101,
358; for life, 99.

Independence of states, 236, 319.
India, 62, 91, 96, 99, 185, 190, 346,
353, 358.

Individual, and society, 19, 128, 151,
172, 241, 277, 306, 312; and the
world, 249, 301, 314, 347, 371-
see Christianity.

Individualism, 116, 241, 245, 300.
Infanticide, 26, 171, 182, 283.
Ingratitude, in code civil, 136; Roman
law as to, 363.
Innes, Cosmo, 398.

Insanity, 109, 111, 170, 365.
Instinct, 30, 34, 39.

Insurance, 106, 116, 222, 225, 386,
391.

Interdicts, 140.

International law, 26, 46, 75, 81, 229-
249, 359; and inter-family law, 50;
and constitutional law, 85, 86;
historical, 400-see Private.
Interpretation of law, 68; of contracts,
212.

Intervention, 81, 234, 236, 246.
Ipso jure investiture, 265, 393.
Ireland, 15, 55, 73, 218, 353.

Irish Land Act, 1881-see Statutes.
Irish Land Court, 58.

JEVONS, Stanley, 294.
Judex, the Roman, 56,
Judge, 62.

Judge-made law, 55, 59, 64, 66, 87.
Judgments, synthetic, 40, 44.
Judicial decisions, law, 59, 379.
Jural relation, 40, 43; moments of, 91,

126, 211, 234, 241, 274, 282, 311.
Jury, trials by, 58; question for a, 60.

Jus naturale, 376-see Law.
Jus gentium, 85, 204, 237, 349.
Jus relicta, 169, 260.
Justice, 345.

Justinian, 1, 49, 154, 230.

KAMES, Lord, 51, 55.

Kant, 153, 156, 159, 160, 179, 182,
244, 304, 333, 357, 378, 412.
Kent, Chancellor, 78.

King, prerogatives of, 63, 200, 331;
can do no wrong, 64, 319.

LABOUR, hours of, 341; and property,
126.

Laissez-faire, 219, 298, 307.
Land, property in, 122, 145.
Laurent, 241, 245, 403.

Law, a science, 30, 382; and fact,
56, 58; and history, 395-407—
see History; and language, 16;
and natural punishment, 18; as
mechanical contrivance, 16, 21, 38,
377; civil, defined by Hobbes, 14;
confusion in English, 395; common
and statute, 354, 373; declaratory,
41, 67, 72, 330; divisions of, 84;
early, nature of, 46; eternity of, 320;
foreign words for,373; innate, denied
by Locke, 25; involved in all human
relations, 22, 40, 59, 376; laws of,
27, 378; mathematical, 374; mode
of learning, 2; natural, 11, 29, 30,
314, 379, 381; objective and sub-
jective, 41; of contract, &c., 379;
of nature, 27, 377; a, of nature, 29,
376, 379, 380; of single case, 25, 59,
379; physical, 27, 321, 367, 375, 376;
positive, defined, 9, 11, 29, 314, 357,
375, 382 see Art; positive and
natural, 24-29, 308, 381; substantive
and adjective, 89-see also Anglo-
Saxon, Roman, Nature and Nations,
Morality, War.

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Lawyers, as advocates and judges, 57,
240; as legislators, 59, 70.
Laymen prone to quibble, 61.
Lecky, 286.

Leges Angliæ nolumus mutare, 355.
Legislation, 16, 38, 186, 205, 304, 308-

see Judge-made Law; development
of, 69, 81; in contracts, 71, 226; in
wills, 268, 273; by treaty, 84; in
theology, 355; by Corporations, 199
-see Statute.
Legislative bodies, 67; the world one
such body, 249.

Legislator, qualifications of, 377.
Legitim, 169, 260.

Leibnitz, 257, 411.
Leviathan, 13.

Liability, restricted, 385; for servants,
387, 392.

Liberal, and conservative, 8, 333, 337;
party and intervention, 235.
Life, differentiation in, 46, 339; con-
ceptions of, 369.

Limitations, Statute of, 227.

Litiscontestation, a judicial contract,

56.

Locke, 25.

Logical question in law, 9, 27, 28.
Lord Advocate, 96.

Lords, House of, 251, 273; as a judicial
body, 65; reform of, 194.

Lorimer, Prof., 9, 12, 24, 26, 28, 30, 41,
253, 376, 406.
Louis XVI., 80.
Lubbock, Sir John, 164.

Lunatics, property of, 129, 185, 286.
Lyall, Sir A., 190, 340.
Lynch law, 50, 304.

MAGISTRATE, function of, 52, 56, 57,
Maills and duties, action of, 53.
Maine, Sir H., 47, 48, 52, 60, 67, 152,
208, 210, 260, 266, 272, 307, 400.
Majorities, 192, 318.

Man, rights of, 298, 315.
Mancipatio, 310.

Mancipi, Res, 124, 153, 207, 385.]
Manners, 342.
Manu, laws of, 286.
Maritime codes, 59.
Marriage, dissolution of, 169; legal
results of, 167; physical and ethical
ends of, 157, 167; the relation one
of status not contract, 156, 330;
rudimentary idea of, 153; with
deceased wife's sister, 164.
Martyrdom, 346.

Master and servant, 104, 216.
Material rights, 120-149.

Mathematics, 37.

Maudsley, Dr., 110.

May, Sir T. E., 244.

Medicine, analogies of law and, 23, 37,
356.

Melior est conditio defendentis, 54.
Mercantile law and merchants, 58.
Mercenaries, 222, 242.

Metaphysical question in law, 9, 10, 44.
Might and Right, 74, 307, 316.
Millennium, 361.

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