Common Pleas. I. The Curia Regis as a Court of Law. II. 308 Common Pleas and Royal Pleas. III. Effects of Magna Carta on the Genesis of the three Courts of Common Law. IV. Evolution of the Court of Common Pleas. V. Erroneous Views, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Petty Assizes. I. The Curia Regis and the Travelling 317 Justices. II. The Nature and Origin of the three Petty Assizes. III. The Assizes in 1215. IV. An Erroneous View. V. Later History of the Justices of Assize, CHAPTER NINETEEN. Procedure at Petty Assizes, 331 CHAPTER TWENTY. Amercement. I. Three Stages of Criminal Law: (1) The 334 blood-feud; (2) Fixed money-payments; (3) Amercements. II. Magna Carta and Amercements: (1) Of the Freeholder; (2) Of the Merchant; (3) Of the Villein; (4) Fines and Amercements; (5) Contenement, CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. Amercement of Earls and Barons, 346 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. Amercement of the Clergy, 349 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. I. Origin of the Obligation to make Bridges. II. The 352 King’s Rights of Falconry. III. Erroneous Interpretations, CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. I. Pleas of the Crown. II. Keeping and Trying Criminal 358 Pleas. III. The Intention of Magna Carta. IV. An Erroneous View. V. Local Magistrates under John: (1) The Sheriff; (2) The Constable; (3) The Coroner; (4) The Bailiff, CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Farms of Counties and Hundreds, 372 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. Crown Debtors. I. Nature of the Grievance. II. The Right 376 to Bequeath, CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. Intestate Succession, 382 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. I. Purveyance in General. II. Branches of it restricted 385 by Magna Carta. III. Its other Branches, CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. Castle-Guard, 390 CHAPTER THIRTY. Purveyance of Horses and Carts, 392 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. Purveyance of Timber, 393 CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO. I. The Crown’s Claim to Felons’ Property: (1) Lands; (2) 394 Chattels. II. Indictment, Conviction, and Attainder, CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE.