Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person, Volumen2

Macmillan and Company, 1877

CHAPTER	1

Difficulties of the ancients as to paupers	7

How far monasteries and abbeys supported poor	13

Progress of legislation since Elizabeth as to workhouses	19

Excuse for stealing from hunger	25

Vagrants and vagabonds classified	31

Vagrants may be apprehended without warrant	34

Powers and duties of guardians of the poor	40

Object of punishment of the body	221

26	224

For what debts imprisonment is still competent	228

27	234

Imprisonment for crime generally	241

Imprisonment for crown and revenue debts and offences	247

Contempts of the Court of Chancery	256

Aid to discharged prisoners	260

What relief to poor now given by overseers	46

Compulsory relief of paupers by relatives	53

Classification of paupers in workhouse	61

Guardians and overseers assisting emigration	67

Different kinds of settlement	73

Settlement by paying parochial taxes	79

Settlement of woman acquired by marriage	80

Suspending removal order if pauper is ill	87

On what principle property is to be assessed	93

Appeal against poor rate	99

Occupiers of property are primarily ratable to the poor	105

Occupiers of land with sporting rights	106

How far docks are ratable	111

How far navigation works ratable	112

Summary of poor laws	117

Codification of poor laws required	119

Surveillance for crime in what cases	123

Arrest under general warrant of privy councillor	129

In what cases arrest of debtor before judgment allowed	135

7	136

Arresting persons attempting to commit felony	141

12	143

13	147

How far one may arrest without warrant for misdemeanour	147

14	147

Mode of making arrest for criminal offences	149

How warrant to arrest is executed	155

17	159

Bail on remand of prisoner during preliminary examination	165

How far person arrested may be kept in chains	171

20	175

When a warrant to arrest may be resisted	180

Trial by wager of law	181

25	187

The torture of peine forte et dure	189

How far judges liable for false imprisonment	195

Proof of want of reasonable and probable cause	201

Passing of Habeas Corpus Act 1679	207

Writ of habeas corpus not granted without leave	213

Gaoler is to make a return to writ	215

Penal servitude as a punishment	266

Whipping of adult males how far restricted	272

30	274

English laws as to mutilation as punishment	278

31	281

Varieties of the mode of capital punishment	284

Capital punishment by burning	291

32	296

Dissecting dead bodies of criminals	297

Benefit of clergy said to arise from scarcity of priests	303

Excessive capital punishments formerly in England	309

Ancient and savage practices as to abortion	315

Murder of infant child	322

Overworking children in agricultural gangs	328

33	333

How the mother of a bastard proceeds against the father	334

Machinery for registration of births	340

67	344

Machinery for providing schools	346

Compelling attendance of children at school	348

Reformatory school for convicted children	354

Punishment of juvenile offenders	360

Unnatural crimes	366

Amount of damages in actions for seduction	373

Ancient punishments for rape	379

Rape of girl between ten and twelve	386

Perplexities of the ancients as to prostitutes	387

Offence of keeping disorderly houses	393

Some maxims and distinctions as to idiots and lunatics	399

Order of admission of lunatic patient	406

When lunatics income less than 50 a year	413

Respect paid to dead body	421

Robbing churchyards and stealing dead bodies	427

The parishioners right of burial in the churchyard	433

Burying more than one body in coffin	439

Duty to give information to registrar as to death	445

How far relief to paupers treated as loan	454

69	461

362	465

Título	Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person, Volumen2 Temas44999-45010 de 19th-century legal treatises Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person, James Paterson
Autor	James Paterson
Editor	Macmillan and Company, 1877
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Princeton
Digitalizado	7 Abr. 2009

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