ACRE, customary varieties of, 138
All Souls' College, Oxford, its law
library, 96, 242
Alpine Club, formation of its
library, 251
Alps, various kinds of literature of,
255, 256, 258
Anglo-Saxon laws, as to breach of
peace, 70
Austria not related to Hungary
as England to Ireland, 205
Averages, importance of, in working
of examination, 223
BAYONET, forms of, 294
Biblioklepts, why they take odd
numbers, 253
Black Death, scarcity of labour
caused by, 133
Blackstone, William, 26, 29
Bondmen, in Anglo-Saxon law,
123, 128
Bovines, cultelli triacumines used
at battle of, 285
Bracton, Henry of, his application
of Accingere gladio tuo, 270
Buckler, use of, with sword, 287, 289
238; of Alpine Club library,
252
Chancery, ethical element brought
into English law by, 27.
Church, mediæval, jurisdiction of,
in cases of promise, 60; peace
of, 74; of England, its relation
to secular law, 173; its relation
to the State, 178
Civil Service, examinations for, 230
Codex Diplomaticus, Kemble's, 121
Colonies, British, varieties of law
in, 57; different kinds of, 188;
attachment of, to mother
country, 199; law of, in English
libraries, 244
Common fields, 113, 137, 138
Common Law, the extension of the,
46, 48
Commonplace
books, English
Competition a universal motive,
lawyers', 104
Conquest, the Norman, social effects
Constitution, the English, elas-
of, 135
Contract, archaic law of, 59; early
ticity of, 162
history of, 153
CAMBRIDGE, Sir H. Maine's re- Copyhold tenure, 115, 116, 136
Canada, constitution of, 191;
position and power of province
of Quebec in, 208
Court Baron, 114, 130
Court, customary, 115, 131
Crown, Pleas of the, the first appear-
ance of, in early English laws, 85
Carucate, nature and value of, 144, Curses, in archaic legal forms, 62
Catalogue, alphabetical or classed,
Curvature of sword blade, its effect,
276
DAGGER, development of sword
from, 279; Asiatic forms of, 283
Damascus, swords of, 278
Dargun, Dr., on primitive property,
Darwin, Charles, his work com-
Department, 231; suggestions
for improving, 232
Examiners, office and duties of, 223
FAMILY, as unit of early law, 119, 141
Federation, imperial, 213
pared with that of historical Fencing, abandonment of armour led
jurists, 41
Democracy, Sir H. Maine on, 160;
English, flattery of, by Irish
Nationalists, 203
Devonshire, Domesday survey of,
132; assessment of manors in,
144; jurisdiction of Duchy of
Cornwall in, 137
Disestablishment, 169 sqq.; its
probable effect, 177, 183
Domesday Book, recent illustrations
to, 286; alleged early Spanish
books on, 287; early English
books on, 288; French and
Italian schools of, 293; health-
fulness of, 298
Ferara, Andrea, 274
" Fox," as name of sword, 274
France, no anti-patriotic parties in,
GAIUS, historical
passages in, 24
Gesner, Conrad, his ascent of
Pilatus, 254
Goodwill of business, its political
analogies, 182
Empire, British, relation of colonies Grassi, Giacomo di, English trans-
Endowments of Church of Eng-
land, their nature, 180; ancient
and modern, 184
lation of his treatise on fencing,
288
HAMLET, the fencing scene in, 290
England, her law centralised and" Hand-peace," the king's, 75, 76
insular, 25, 47; legal archaisms | Hannibal, his passage of the Alps,
preserved in, 44; empire of, in
India, 54
Equality, religious, what, 171
Examination,
its relation to
education, 216 sqq.; com-
petitive, its nature, 217; how
practised at universities, 218,
221; necessary limitations of,
219; errors of, how compensated,
222; a good servant and bad
master, 224; facility of, not ade-
quate measure of value of studies,
225; will not produce educa-
tion, 226; system of, oppresses
learning at universities, 229;
Hide, measurement and assessment
of, 144
Highway, the King's, 82
History, relations of, to law, 45
Holmes, Judge O. W., 44, 45
Home Rule in Ireland, the con-
stitutional problem of 187 sqq.
House, peace of, and right to defend,
70, 73
Humanities compatible with study
of law, 107
Hungary, case of, unlike that of
Ireland, 205
in Civil Service, 230; not used INCLOSURES of sixteenth century,
in higher branches of Education
India, ideal Brahmanical law in,
32; British empire in, 53; legal
antiquities of, 56; village
communities in, 117
Inns of Court, their libraries, 234,
242, 245, 247
International Law is really law,
Ireland, Home Rule question in, 187
sqq.; has not native institutions,
192; English conquest of, 193;
Government of, Mr. Gladstone's
Bill for, 196; colonial self-
government not practicable in,
198, 202; Home Rule would
not be final in, 204; whether
federal constitution possible for,
Jura regalia, grants of, 86
Jurisdiction, private, in feudal
system, 125
Jurisprudence, art and science of,
1, 2; different conceptions of,
4; Ulpian's definition of, 5;
the species of, 9, 11, 19; Eng-
lish and Continental methods
in, 14, 30, 35; Roman, ana-
lytical and historical elements
in, 23; historical and compara-
tive, 40; historical, its present
stage, 164
KING, privileges of his house, 73;
peace of his court, 80, 83
King's Peace, the, 64 sqq.; per-
petual succession of, 87
Kukri (the Gurkha weapon), 282
LAW, distinction of, from morality,
6, 7; the general ideas of, 10,
11; of nature, 14, 28; inter-
national, 18; Roman attempts
to define, 22; academic study
101; literature of, peculiar,
236; foreign and colonial, pro-
vision for, in English libraries,
244; bibliography of, 244,
Legislation, theory of, its relation
to general jurisprudence, 12
Libraries, law, special character of,
235; their necessary depart-
ments, 237; scale of import-
ance of subjects in, 239; books
required in, 240
Library of Alpine Club, 250
Lyall, Sir Alfred, on fruitfulness
of Maine's generalisation, 157
MAINE, Sir Henry, 147, sqq.; his
scholarship, 150; permanent
characters of his work, 153; its
artistic quality, 154; its effect
on local research, 157; his
enlargement of methods of legal
study, 159; his treatment of
modern politics, 160; of inter-
national law, 165; the example
of his life, 167
Maitland, F. W., on manorial
courts, 115
Manor, constitution of English,
112 sqq.; not regularly conter-
minous with township, 116,
130; change of meaning in the
word, 127
"Mark" (= village community), no
real English authority for, 121,
Marks in examinations, 233
Merchants, peace specially granted
to, 77, 78, 79
Micah of Mount Ephraim, the
story of, 67
Minorities, political power of, 207
Mycenæ, ornamented blades found
at, 265
of, 94; different kinds of know- NATIONALISTS, Irish, anti-English
ledge required in practice of, utterances of, 200, 202
Nature, the law of, 14, 17, 28
Naturrecht, 14, 15, 17
OATH, confirmation of promises by,
in early law, 61; taken on
sword or arms, 269
Ossian, on what occasion afraid,
73
Oxford, University of, its Law
School, 96, 102; adjustment of
teaching to examinations in, 228
PARISH, relation of, to township and
manor, 130
Parliament, supremacy of, through-
out British possessions, 188;
in constitutional matters, 212;
reform of, 224
Peace, of homestead, etc., in old
English law, 70; justices of
the, 88; security of the, 89
Philosophy, Greek, its influence in
Roman law, 21; relation of
historical method to, 42
Politics, relation of, to jurispru-
dence, 4
Property, private, a relatively late
conception, 118
Protestants, travelling, zeal of,
Roman law, prevalence of, on the
Continent, 30, 46; recent
English works on, 97; value of,
in legal education, 104
Romans, their military weapons,
262, 266
SAVIOLO, Vincentio, his treatise,
288
Science, functions of imagination
in, 109
Scotland, law of, 50
Sentiment, power of in practical
affairs, 194
Silver, George, his objections to
the rapier, 289
Sports, lawful, 108
Stipulation in Roman law, its
religious character, 60
Sword, earliest forms of, 261;
leaf-shaped, 263; in Greece,
265; in Roman armies, 266 ;
mediæval, 268; symbolism of,
269; Renaissance forms of,
271, 273; basket-hilted, 272;
Spanish and German, 274;
Asiatic, 275; talwars and
scimitars, 277; relation to
dagger, 279; Japanese and
Malay, 283; three-edged duelling
or "small," 285; eighteenth-
century form of, 292; modern
military, 295
Roads, the Roman, in Britain, 75, ULPIAN, his definition of iuris-
to special sciences, 92; method
of examination at, 218
Ulster situated in Ireland like pro-
vince of Quebec in Canada, 208
United States, position of the
Common Law in, 33; con- VILLENAGE, 136
stitution of, 206, 212; law- Virgates, 145
books of, in English libraries,
Universities, office of, with regard Yataghan, 281
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