Abinger, Lord Chief Baron, his judgment in Priestley v. Fowler, 77, 78, 95, 96
Ademantus, 254
Administration orders in bankruptcy, 119-124
Alehouse, the, 252-270
“Alton Locke,” slums described in, 238
American judiciary and working classes, 93, 94, 95;
and workmen’s compensation, 103
Appeals, cost of, 175
Artisans Dwelling Act, 1875, 241
Asquith, Right Hon. Herbert Henry, on workmen’s compensation, 87
Attorney-General v. The Edison Telephone Co., 83
Bacon, Lord Chancellor, 305
Bail, unnecessary refusal of, 226;
statistics of this, 228, 229
Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, on intemperance, 255, 256
Bankruptcy, 106-124;
failures due to extravagance, 115-117;
not open to the poor, 118;
administration orders, 120;
exorbitant Treasury fees, 122-124
Bell, Alexander Graham, 82
Belloc, Hilaire, 254
Bentham, Jeremy, on legal evidence, 192
Bias in judges, 96-103
Bills of Sale Acts, 168
Black Act, 1722, 218
Blasphemy Laws, 199, 200
Blue Books, 301, 302
Bradlaugh, Charles, 199
Bridewell, the, 9-10, 213
Bright, John, 99
Brougham, Lord, on imprisonment for debt, 48, 49;
on the Evidence Amendment Act, 193;
on Chancery reform, 287, 288
Butler, Samuel, 211
Cadaval, Duke de, arrested on mesne process, 46
Capias ad satisfaciendum, 37, 39
Carlyle, Thomas, on history, 21;
on language, 108, 110;
on fools, 153;
on land question, 250
Cattle maiming, 216-219
Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, on workmen’s compensation, 87-90;
on administration orders, 119, 120;
is housing work in Birmingham, 241
Chancery Court, and Lord Brougham, 287
Children, treatment of, in workhouses, 280, 282
Closing time, regulations for rich and poor, 263, 264
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 169
Cobbett, Sir William, 186
Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, his description of peine forte et dure, 11, 201;
on early Poor Laws, 274, 275
Collier, Sir Robert, on imprisonment for debt, 55, 56
“Compleat Constable,” The, 4-7
Conciliation in trade disputes, 110
Conciliation, preliminary of, in France, 187
Corporal punishment, advisability of, discussed, 209-212
Costs in police court, abolition desirabie, 222
Cottenham, Earl of, his Insolvency Bill, 1837, 45-47
County Court procedure, expense of, 184
Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, 194, 197, 198
Crabbe, on lawyers, 183
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, on divorce, 125, 126, 127
Crime and punishment, 189-212
Criminal Appeal, Court of, 189
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194-196
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 210
Cruelty to Animals Bill of 1811, 219
Davey, Lord, on workmen’s compensation, 92
Deane, Mr. Justice Bargrave, on divorce, 137
Debt, imprisonment for, Old Testament view of, 22;
New Testament view of, 24;
Greek law of, 27;
Roman law of, 31;
in Papal Rome, 34;
in time of Henry III., 36-39;
in eighteenth century, 41, 43;
in “Pickwick,” 45;
mesne process, 45;
debates on, in 1837, 46;
in 1869, 50-57;
evils of, 59-68;
arguments against abolition, 69-71;
none in Germany, 71;
nor in France, 72;
wastefulness of system, 72;
encourages improvidence, 157-160;
in police courts, 220, 222;
political views on abolition of, 288-293
Debtors Act, 1869, 41, 49-57, 158
Debtors’ prisons, 41-47
Dendy, Mr. Registrar, on divorce in County Court, 146
Denman, Lord, speech on imprisonment for debt, 46
Dickens, Charles, on imprisonment for debt, 45;
on the living wage, 108;
on the evidence of prisoners, 194;
on slums, 238;
on inns and innkeepers, 257-259
D’Israeli, Benjamin, slums described in “Sybil,” 239-242
Distress, law of, 233
Divorce, 125-151;
in time of Edward VI., 125-128;
Act of 1857, 131;
hard cases of poor, 133-141;
necessity of using County Court, 144-146, 297
Dogberry, abolition of discussed, 223, 224
Edalji, 217
Edward VI., 126
Edward VII., 126
Eliot, George, 174
Elisha, and imprisonment for debt, 22, 23
Elizabeth, Queen, her Poor Law, 276
Employers Liability Act, 1880, 86
Erewhon, treatment of crime in, 211
Erskine, Lord, and cruelty to animals, 219
Eviction, 234
Evidence, prisoners right to give, 193;
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194;
of Crown not available to prisoner, 207-209
Exekestides, 27
False pretences, 202, 203
Fielding, as a magistrate, 213
Fieri facias, 39
Fines in police courts, unfair incidence of, 221, 222;
time for payment of, 224;
statistics of, 225;
abolition of, 297
France, no imprisonment for debt, 72;
divorce law, 143, 147;
preliminary of conciliation in, 187;
poor law, 283
Fuller, on burning of heretics, 200
Geographical distribution of crime, 216
Germany, no imprisonment for working men debtors, 71;
divorce in, 147
Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron, 37, 39
Goldsmith, Oliver, 13, 14
Gordon, Cosmo, Archbishop of York, on divorce, 128
Gordon, Mr. Justice, of Australian Labour Court, 110
Governor of gaol, charity to poor debtors, 65
Grand jury, 181
Grantham, Hon. Mr. Justice, 101;
on poor prisoners defence, 196
Gray, Professor John Chipman, of Harvard, 80;
on judge-made law, 81
Haldane, Viscount, 66, 215
Hale, Sir Matthew, Lord Chief Justice, 100
Halsbury, Earl of, on workmen’s compensation, 92
Hard labour for unconvicted prisoners, 227, 228
Headlam, John, an old-fashioned Dogberry, 227, 228, 229
Herschell, Lord, on prisoners giving evidence, 195
Hogarth, 10, 15
Homestead laws of America and Canada, 293, 294, 295
Hood, Tom, 108
Horn, Andrew, his “Mirror of Justices,” 275
Housing question, 236-251;
Royal Commission, 1884, 242;
Select Committee, 1902, 244
Identification of prisoners, present methods criticised, 230, 231
Imprisonment for debt. See Debt.
Innkeeper, independence of, 258
Jeremiah, and the living wage, 108, 113
Jessel, Sir George, on imprisonment for debt, 50
Johnson, Dr., 4;
on the poor in England, 13, 14;
on public executions, 15, 16;
on imprisonment for debt, 70;
on the formation of laws, 70
Johnson, William, miners’ agent, his views on imprisonment for debt, 292
Judge-made law, 79-85
Judgment summonses, statistics of, 60, 63
Judicial irrelevancy, 180
Judson, Frederick N., author of “The Judiciary and the People,” 94
Justice of peace, utility of lay justices, 231
Kelvin, Lord, 82
Kingsley, Charles, 108;
on slums, 238;
on teetotallers, 264-266, 270
Kipling, Rudyard, 303
Landlord and tenant, 233-251
Land transfer system, assists fraud, 183
Leniency to well to do in criminal courts, example of, 205, 206
Licensing, class regulation of, 253;
section 4 of Act of 1904, 256;
effect of reducing number of licences, 261;
extension of hours for rich, 263;
prohibition of amusements, 267
Living wage, 108, 109, 110
Lysons v. Andrew Knowles, 175
McMahon, M.P., on imprisonment for debt, 55
Malicious injury to property, 217, 218
Manitoba, homestead laws of, 294, 295
Marcus Aurelius, 299, 306
Married Women’s Property Act, undesirable use of, 161-170
Matthew, and imprisonment for debt, 24, 25
Maule, Mr. Justice, on divorce, 129
Maxwell, Rev. Dr., 13, 14
Mayence, public beer drinking at, 262
Medical officer of health, status of, 248
Menander, on marriage, 163
Mesne process, arrest on, 45;
abolished, 49
Mesnil, M. Henri, on divorce, 143
Moryson, Fynes, 8, 11, 34, 35
Newman, Cardinal, 307
Ordeal of battle, 308, 309
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 11
Overcrowding, 245;
census statistics of, 246
Parry, Serjeant, 99
Peine forte et dure, 12
Pepys, Samuel, 4
Pickersgill, M.P., on prisoner giving evidence, 196
Pickwick, and imprisonment for debt, 45, 47
Piers Plowman, on debt, 75;
on law and poor, 172, 173;
on lawyers, 188
Police courts, abolition of fines, 297
Poor law, 271-284;
Royal Commission, report of, 272;
in time of Elizabeth, 276;
in eighteenth century, 276;
in 1834, 277;
general mixed workhouses, 278-284
Poor man’s lawyer, necessity of, 184-187
Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 194-197
Priestley v. Fowler, 76-79
Procedure and the poor, 172-188
Public houses, 252-270. And see Licensing.
Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, 111, 112
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 3
Regina v. Thomas Hall, 129
Registrars of County Courts and private practice, 72, 73
“Reformatio Legum Ecclesasticarum, The,” 125
Ridley, Sir Matthew White, on workmen’s compensation, 87
Rivers Pollution Acts, 248
Roe, Gilbert, author of “Our Judicial Oligarchy,” 86, 94
Rogues and Vagabonds, 4-7
Ruskin, John, 108
Sabbatarianism, evils of, 215
Salford quarter sessions in 1824, 17
Salisbury, Earl of, 244, 245
Schuster, Dr., on German system of debt collecting, 71
Scold, common, trial and punishment of, 235
Scots divorce, 126
Scott, Sir William, 15
Seisachtheia, The, 29
Selden, John, on marriage contract, 150
Shop lifting by ladies, 204
Sims, George R., his “How the Poor Live,” 242, 243
Sittlichkeit, 66
Slums, legislation against, 236
Smith, Judge Lumley, on divorce costs, 148, 149
Smith, Rev. Sidney, on prisoners’ right to counsel, 190, 191;
on prisoners’ inability to give evidence, 192
Smith, Sir A. L., Master of the Rolls, on workmen’s compensation, 89
Smollett, 9, 42
Snowden, Philip, M.P., and the living wage, 109;
on strikes, 111
Socrates, on thirst, 255
Solicitors, speculative, 175
Solon, and imprisonment for debt, 27-31
Starkie, Sir Thomas, 17
Stephen, Mr. Justice, decision in telephone case, 82
Stipendiary magistrates, want of in country, 223;
necessary in interests of justice, 231
Sumner, Lord, 180, 181
Swift, on lawyers, 181, 182
Taylor, Jeremy, his prayer for debtors, 75
Teetotallers, persecution of licence holders by, 259;
their ideals, 260;
Charles Kingsley’s views of, 264-266, 270
Telephone, legal position of, 82, 83
Tennant, Mrs., report on divorce, 136
Thackeray, on prisoner giving evidence, 193
Torrens Act, 1868, 241
Treasury fees on Administration Orders, exorbitancy of, 121-124, 298
Twelve Tables, The, 32
Tyburn, 7, 15, 16
Vinogradoff, Professor, 84
Warrington, Harry, imprisonment for debt, 45, 46
Webb, Mrs. Sidney, her report on poor law, 280
Weston, Richard, trial of, 11, 12
Whipping, punishment of, 6-9, 209-212
Witchcraft, 100
Workhouses, 271-284. And see Poor Law.
Workmen’s compensation, 76-105;
history of the law, of, 76-84;
employers liability, 86;
in Court of Appeal, 90-93;
in America, 94, 103;
162, 286;
and conciliation, 298
Wyrley, cattle maiming at, 219
York, Archbishop of, on divorce, 136, 137
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