Legal antiquities : $b A collection of essays upon ancient laws and customsWhite, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
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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
Marriage, a partnership, by Roman law, 16.
Marriage, among Gauls, Caesar’s reference to, 32.
Marriage, in Pericles’ time, 27.
Marriage, appertained to spiritual forum, in 12th century, 21.
Marriage, in Glanville’s time, 21.
Marriage, by infants, 28.
Marriage, in United States, 23.
Marriage, form of, in Persia, 34.
Marriage, among Hungarians, 29.
Marriage, at gallows, 41.
Marriage, in a “shift”, 37, 42.
Marriage, between Shechem and Dinah, proposal of, 14.
Marriage, between Claudius and Agrippina, 18.
Marriage of Richard de Anesty, in 1143, 21.
Marriage between John of Gaunt and Catherine Swinford, 19.
Marriage between Duke Richard and Gunnora, 19.
Marriage laws, in England, in 7th century, 21.
Marshal, trial for treason must be before, 118.
Marshall, Chief Justice, on independence of courts, 101.
Marshall, Chief Justice, probable recall of, 100.
Marshall, will of Chief Justice, 327.
Mary, Queen, law against witches, in Scotland, 56.
Mary, Queen, sanctuary, under, 259.
Massachusetts, clergy claimed in, 239.
Massola, punishment by, 293, 294.
Meinhold’s “Amber Witch”, 71.
Menu, institutes of, on marriage (note), 13.
“Middle Law”, wager by, in 14th century, 204.
Millis case, 24, 25.
Milton’s idea of the devil, 69.
Minnesota, clergy claimed in, 241.
Minority alone protected by the courts, 103.
“Minstrelsy of Scottish Border”, ordeal of bier, in, 166.
Mischief of recall in Athens, 86.
Molay, persecution of, under charge of witchcraft, 52.
Monogamy, definition of, 15.
Monogamy, best suited to civilization, 15.
Monogamy, in ancient Greece and Rome (note), 16.
Morganatic marriages, 17.
Mosaic code, sanctuary traced to, 244.
Mosaic code, wager of law, under, 196.
Mosaic conception of judicial functions, 75, 76.
Mosaic law, against witchcraft, 46.
Mosaic law, requiring marriage to brother’s widow, 35.
Moses, law of marriage, 14.
Moses, advice to judges, 75, 76.
Moses, warning, of, in rendering judgment, 101.
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Narada, institutes of, 145.
Nazarene, delivery of, to multitude, 122.
Neck-verse, in benefit of clergy, 229.
Necromancy in mediaeval times, 49.
Neilson, trial by battle by, 129.
“New England Tragedies”, case of Giles Cory, in, 187, 189.
New Zealand, marriages, in (note), 13.
_Nil debit_, wager or law, in cases of, 197.
Norfolk, battle with Hereford, 130.
Normans, introduced battle, into England, 114.
Northampton, assize of, 154.
North Carolina, clergy claimed in, 240.
Nuns, entitled to clergy, 228.
Nurse, Rebecca’s trial for witchcraft, 67.
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Oath-helpers, in wager of law, 205, 207.
Oil, ordeal by, 143.
Ordeal, trial by, 141, 170.
Ordeal, definition of, 141.
Ordeal, antiquity of, 141.
Ordeal of the bier, 143.
Ordeal, by the corsned, 143.
Ordeal, by red hot iron, 143.
Ordeal, by the Eucharist, 143.
Ordeal, by fire, 142, 143.
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