Clarendon, assize of, and law wager, 209. Claudius, law allowing marriage to niece, 18. Cleisthenes, on judicial recall, 82. Clergy, benefit of (see benefit of clergy), 223, 243. Clergy, neck-verse used in, 229. Clitherow, Margaret, case of, 180, 183. Clovis’ marriage to Clotilde, 32. Cnut, proceedings in “false judgment” under, 106. Cnut, wills, under, 312. Cnut’s law against witchcraft, 49. Cnut’s law against certain sale-marriages, 20. Code of Hammurabi, on recall of judges, 78. _Coemptio in manum_, definition of, 16. Coke, on Slade’s case of law wager, 213. Coke, on wager of law, 200. Colynbourgh, Alice, trial of, by law wager, in 1435, 211. Combat, trial by (see Battle, trial by), 109. Common pleas courts, in old England, 90. Compurgators, character of, in wager or law, 198. Compurgators, as witnesses, 158. Compurgation by fire ordeal, 142, 143. Concubinage, definition of, 18. Concubine, property right of progeny of, 18. _Concubinatus_, under Roman law, 18. _Confarreatio_, definition of, 16. _Confarreatio_, obsolete, by end of Roman Republic (note), 17. Congress, abolished benefit of clergy, in 1790, 236. Constantine, law of, against witchcraft, 48. Constantine, sanctuary, under, 248. Corey, Giles, trial for witchcraft, 66. Corey, Giles, case of pressing to death, in 1692, 187, 189. Corey, Martha’s trial for witchcraft, 65. Corsned, ordeal, by, 143, 144. County Court, of Anglo-Saxons, 90. Courts, in ancient England, 90. Crimes, unclergyable, 233. Criminal cases, wager of law, in, during 14th century, 204. Crucifixion, punishment by, 280. Cross, ordeal by, 143, 144, 148. Cumanus, cruelty of, in witch persecutions, 54. _Curia regis_, in early England, 90. Custom, of throwing rice, 34. Custom, of throwing shoes, 34. Custom, of throwing stockings, 34. Custom, of throwing bouquets, 34. Customs, of marriage, 12, 44. D David and Goliath, trial by, 109. David’s Psalms, authorizing benefit of clergy, 228. Debt, wager of law, in (note), 207. Debt, battle in trials for, 119. Definition of benefit of clergy, 224. Definition of _Confarreatio_, 16. Definition of trial by ordeal, 141. Definition of wager of law, 196. Descent from concubine, 18. Detinue, wager of law, in (note), 207. Dinah’s proposed marriage to Shechem, 14. Diocletian, prohibition of polygamy by, 16. Divorcement, under Hammurabi, 31. _Donatio propter nuptias_, of Roman law, 31. Dower, at church door, 32. Dower, under Anglo-Saxons, 32. Dower, under reign of Edward I., 26. Dower, Shakespeare’s reference to law of (note), 33. Dowry, under Hammurabi’s code, 31. Dowry, origin of, 31. Drawing and quartering, punishment by, 283. Drowning, punishment by, 277. Ducking, punishment by, 303. Durant, John, case of, in 1734, 187. “Dusty-foot courts”, 90. E