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
Quaint and curious wills (See wills, quaint and curious), 307, 334.
Quick, Juliana, case of, 180.
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Rack, punishment, by, 304.
Rape-marriages, 13.
Recall of judges, 74, 108.
Recall of judges, meaning, of, 74.
Recall, among Medes and Persians (note), 78.
Recall, effect of, in Babylon and Greece, 103, 104.
Recall, established by Cleisthenes, in Greece, 82.
Recall, in ancient Greece, 81.
Recall, in Athens, explained by Aristotle, 82.
Recall, discarded in Athens, 86.
Recall, in ancient Rome, 87.
Recall, by Augustus Caesar, 88.
Recall, by King, in England, 94.
Recall, by “false-judgment” trials, in England, 93.
Recall, in case of Rebecca Nurse, 102.
Re-hearings, none, under Hammurabi’s code, 78.
Retroactive marriages, 26.
Rice, an emblem of fruitfulness, 35.
Rice-throwing, 34.
Richarda, Empress, trial of, by ordeal, 159.
Richard de Anesty’s marriage, in 1143, 21.
Richard, Duke of, and Gunnora, 19.
Richard I., ordeal trials under, 163.
Richard III., ordeal of bier, as presented in, 166.
Right, writ of, procedure in battle under, 116.
Ring, in marriages, origin of, 33.
Roland, song of, 135.
Roman forms of marriage, 16.
Roman marriage laws basis of our own, 16.
Roman marriage exalted, 16.
Roman marriage a partnership relation, 16.
Romans, wager of law, under, 197.
Rome, recall of judges in ancient, 87.
Rome, sanctuary in, 247.
Ruth and Boaz, espousal of, 36.
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Sabines, rape of the (note), 13.
Saint Louis, abolished trial by battle, in France, in 1260, 134.
Sale-marriages, 13.
Sale-marriages, in Cnut’s time, 20.
Sale-marriages, recognized by church, 20.
Salem witch trials, 62, 68.
Sale, of justice in old England, 90.
Samuel, Mother, persecution of, 56.
Sanctuary, privilege of, 244, 272.
Sanctuary, definition of, 244.
Sanctuary, how claimed, 258, 259.
Sanctuary, under Mosaic code, 244.
Sanctuary, in Greece and Rome, 247.
Sanctuary, under Alfred, 251.
Sanctuary, under Constantine, 248.
Sanctuary, under Anglo-Saxons, 249.
Sanctuary, under Athelstan, 252.
Sanctuary, under Ina, 251.
Sanctuary, under Edward the Confessor, 254.
Sanctuary, under William the Conqueror, 252.
Sanctuary, abjuration of realm, in, 250.
Sanctuary, under Edward I., 256.
Sanctuary, in reign of Henry IV., 259.
Sanctuary, under Henry VII., 257, 262.
Sanctuary, curtailed by Henry VIII., 267.
Sanctuary, repealed by James I., 268.
Sanctuary, in Scotland, 265.
Sanctuary, under Queen Mary, 259.
Sanctuary, claimed by Queen Elizabeth, 260.
Sanctuary, at Hexham, 253.
Sanctuary, in literature, 269, 270.
Sawing asunder, punishment by, 279.
Saxons, sanctuary under, 249.
Saxons, wager of law, under, 197.
Scipio, trial by battle before, 126.
Scotland, persecutions for witchcraft in, 57.
Scotland, sanctuary, in, 265.
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