Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, his description of _peine forte et dure_, 11, 201; on early Poor Laws, 274, 275 Collier, Sir Robert, on imprisonment for debt, 55, 56 "Compleat Constable," The, 4-7 Conciliation in trade disputes, 110 Conciliation, preliminary of, in France, 187 Corporal punishment, advisability of, discussed, 209-212 Costs in police court, abolition desirabie, 222 Cottenham, Earl of, his Insolvency Bill, 1837, 45-47 County Court procedure, expense of, 184 Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, 194, 197, 198 Crabbe, on lawyers, 183 Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, on divorce, 125, 126, 127 Crime and punishment, 189-212 Criminal Appeal, Court of, 189 Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194-196 Criminal Law Amendment Act, 210 Cruelty to Animals Bill of 1811, 219 Davey, Lord, on workmen's compensation, 92 Deane, Mr. Justice Bargrave, on divorce, 137 Debt, imprisonment for, Old Testament view of, 22; New Testament view of, 24; Greek law of, 27; Roman law of, 31; in Papal Rome, 34; in time of Henry III., 36-39; in eighteenth century, 41, 43; in "Pickwick," 45; mesne process, 45; debates on, in 1837, 46; in 1869, 50-57; evils of, 59-68; arguments against abolition, 69-71; none in Germany, 71; nor in France, 72; wastefulness of system, 72; encourages improvidence, 157-160; in police courts, 220, 222; political views on abolition of, 288-293 Debtors Act, 1869, 41, 49-57, 158 Debtors' prisons, 41-47 Dendy, Mr. Registrar, on divorce in County Court, 146 Denman, Lord, speech on imprisonment for debt, 46 Dickens, Charles, on imprisonment for debt, 45; on the living wage, 108; on the evidence of prisoners, 194; on slums, 238; on inns and innkeepers, 257-259 D'Israeli, Benjamin, slums described in "Sybil," 239-242 Distress, law of, 233 Divorce, 125-151; in time of Edward VI., 125-128; Act of 1857, 131; hard cases of poor, 133-141; necessity of using County Court, 144-146, 297 Dogberry, abolition of discussed, 223, 224 Edalji, 217 Edward VI., 126 Edward VII., 126 Eliot, George, 174 Elisha, and imprisonment for debt, 22, 23 Elizabeth, Queen, her Poor Law, 276 Employers Liability Act, 1880, 86 Erewhon, treatment of crime in, 211 Erskine, Lord, and cruelty to animals, 219 Eviction, 234 Evidence, prisoners right to give, 193; Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194; of Crown not available to prisoner, 207-209 Exekestides, 27 False pretences, 202, 203 Fielding, as a magistrate, 213 _Fieri facias_, 39 Fines in police courts, unfair incidence of, 221, 222; time for payment of, 224; statistics of, 225; abolition of, 297 France, no imprisonment for debt, 72; divorce law, 143, 147; preliminary of conciliation in, 187; poor law, 283 Fuller, on burning of heretics, 200