Legal antiquities : $b A collection of essays upon ancient laws and customsWhite, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
History
Legal antiquities : $b A collection of essays upon ancient laws and customs
White, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
Criminal law -- History; Law -- History; Law, Ancient; Punishment -- History
Glanville, wager of law, during time of, 200.
Glazier’s company case, 214.
Godwin, Duke, trial of, by ordeal, 160, 161.
Goliath, trial with David, 109.
Goths, trial by battle among, 111.
“Great Law”, wager by, in 14th century, 204.
Greece, recall in, 81.
Greece, effect of recall in, 103, 104.
Greece, sanctuary in, 247.
Gregory of Tours, case of law wager, 209.
Guillotine, punishment by, 293.
Gundibald, law of, regulating trial by battle, 111.
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Hair, plucking off, punishment by, 299.
Hale, Sir Mathew’s, trial of witches, 60.
Hammurabi’s prerogatives, in decision of causes, 79.
Hammurabi, made infallibility the test of the judge, 106.
Hammurabi’s law against witchcraft, 45.
Hammurabi, code of, regarding marriage dowry, 31.
Hammurabi’s code, on judicial recall, 77, 80.
Hand, marriages by, in Rome, 17.
Hanging, punishment by, 279.
Hawes, Nathaniel, case of, in 1721, 186.
Hebrews, practiced polygamy, 15.
Henry II., benefit of clergy, under, 226.
Henry II., justices itinerant, under, 91.
Henry II., will of, 315.
Henry III., abolished ordeals, 157.
Henry III., _peine forte et dure_, under reign of, 178.
Henry III., trial by battle before, 129.
Henry IV., sanctuary, in reign of, 259.
Henry IV., _peine forte et dure_, under, 180.
Henry VI., law wager, under, 212.
Henry VI., wager of law, under, 206, 207.
Henry VI., _peine forte et dure_, under, 180.
Henry VI., trial by battle, before, 131.
Henry VII., benefit of clergy, under, 231.
Henry VII., trial by battle, before, 132.
Henry VII., sanctuary, under, 262.
Henry VII., sanctuary, under, 257.
Henry VII., _peine forte et dure_, under (note), 180.
Henry VIII., benefit of clergy, under, 234, 235.
Henry VIII., sanctuary curtailed by, 267.
Henry VIII., law wager, under, in 1527 (note), 213.
Hereford, battle with Norfolk, 130.
Hexham, sanctuary, at, 253.
Hincmar, views of, on ordeals, 162.
Holt, chief justice, cases by, on law wager, 214, 216.
Holt, lord chief justice’s trial of witches, 61.
Hopkins, Matthew, his cruelty against witches, 59.
Horsey, Doctor’s case, 236.
Hundred court, of Anglo-Saxons, 90.
Hungarians, marriages of infants, among, 29.
Huntingdon witch trials, 61.
Hutchinson’s work on witchcraft, 69.
Hyperbolus, recall of, in Athens, 86.
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Ina, sanctuary, under, 251.
Independence of judges, established by William III., 94.
Independence of judges, under Constitution of U. S., 97.
Independence of judges, wisdom of, demonstrated, 106.
India, polyandry in, 16.
Ine, laws of, governing ordeals, 149.
Infallibility, the test of judicial action in Hammurabi’s time, 106.
Infant marriages, 28.
Infant marriages, in Brazil, 29.
Innocent III., marriage under, 21.
Inquisition, punishment by, 286, 288.
Iron, ordeal by hot, 143.
Isaac and Rebekah, 33.
Israelites, taking a wife, by (note), 13.
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