Law -- England; Poor -- England; Poor laws -- England; Working class -- England
Geographical distribution of crime, 216
Germany, no imprisonment for working men debtors, 71;
divorce in, 147
Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron, 37, 39
Goldsmith, Oliver, 13, 14
Gordon, Cosmo, Archbishop of York, on divorce, 128
Gordon, Mr. Justice, of Australian Labour Court, 110
Governor of gaol, charity to poor debtors, 65
Grand jury, 181
Grantham, Hon. Mr. Justice, 101;
on poor prisoners defence, 196
Gray, Professor John Chipman, of Harvard, 80;
on judge-made law, 81
Haldane, Viscount, 66, 215
Hale, Sir Matthew, Lord Chief Justice, 100
Halsbury, Earl of, on workmen's compensation, 92
Hard labour for unconvicted prisoners, 227, 228
Headlam, John, an old-fashioned Dogberry, 227, 228, 229
Herschell, Lord, on prisoners giving evidence, 195
Hogarth, 10, 15
Homestead laws of America and Canada, 293, 294, 295
Hood, Tom, 108
Horn, Andrew, his "Mirror of Justices," 275
Housing question, 236-251;
Royal Commission, 1884, 242;
Select Committee, 1902, 244
Identification of prisoners, present methods criticised, 230, 231
Imprisonment for debt. _See_ Debt.
Innkeeper, independence of, 258
Jeremiah, and the living wage, 108, 113
Jessel, Sir George, on imprisonment for debt, 50
Johnson, Dr., 4;
on the poor in England, 13, 14;
on public executions, 15, 16;
on imprisonment for debt, 70;
on the formation of laws, 70
Johnson, William, miners' agent, his views on imprisonment for debt, 292
Judge-made law, 79-85
Judgment summonses, statistics of, 60, 63
Judicial irrelevancy, 180
Judson, Frederick N., author of "The Judiciary and the People," 94
Justice of peace, utility of lay justices, 231
Kelvin, Lord, 82
Kingsley, Charles, 108;
on slums, 238;
on teetotallers, 264-266, 270
Kipling, Rudyard, 303
Landlord and tenant, 233-251
Land transfer system, assists fraud, 183
Leniency to well to do in criminal courts, example of, 205, 206
Licensing, class regulation of, 253;
section 4 of Act of 1904, 256;
effect of reducing number of licences, 261;
extension of hours for rich, 263;
prohibition of amusements, 267
Living wage, 108, 109, 110
_Lysons_ v. _Andrew Knowles_, 175
McMahon, M.P., on imprisonment for debt, 55
Malicious injury to property, 217, 218
Manitoba, homestead laws of, 294, 295
Marcus Aurelius, 299, 306
Married Women's Property Act, undesirable use of, 161-170
Matthew, and imprisonment for debt, 24, 25
Maule, Mr. Justice, on divorce, 129
Maxwell, Rev. Dr., 13, 14
Mayence, public beer drinking at, 262
Medical officer of health, status of, 248
Menander, on marriage, 163
Mesne process, arrest on, 45;
abolished, 49
Mesnil, M. Henri, on divorce, 143
Moryson, Fynes, 8, 11, 34, 35
Newman, Cardinal, 307
Ordeal of battle, 308, 309
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 11
Overcrowding, 245;
census statistics of, 246
Parry, Serjeant, 99
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