_Cun._--Cunningham’s Reports.
Cro. _sometimes refers to_ Keilwey’s Reports, _published by
Serjt._ Croke.
_Curt._--Curteis’s Ecclesiastical Reports.
_D._--Dictum, Digest (Juris Civilis).
_D. & C._--Deacon and Chitty’s Reports in Cases of Bankruptcy.
_D. & R._; _Dowl. & R._--Dowling and Ryland’s Reports. K. B.
_D. & St._--Doctor and Student.
_Dal._--Dalison’s Reports.
_Dalt. Just._--Dalton’s Justice.
_Dalt. Sh._--Dalton’s Sheriff.
_Dan._--Daniel’s Reports.
_D’Anv._--D’Anvers’s Abridgment.
_Dav._--Davis’s Reports, respecting Patents, &c.
_Dea. & Ch._--Deacon and Chitty.
_Deg._--Degge’s Parson’s Counsellor.
_Deh._--Dehany’s Turnpike Acts.
_D’Ew._--D’Ewe’s Journal.
_Di._; _Dy._; _Dyer._--Dyer’s Reports.
_Dial. de Scacc._--Dialogus de Scaccario.
_Dick._--Dickin’s Reports.
_Dick. Just._; _Dickenson._--Dickenson’s Justice.
_Dig._--Digest of Writs.
_Dob. Sty._--Dobie’s Styles.
_Dod. Rep._--Dodson’s Admiralty Reports.
_Dom. Proc._--Domini Proctor; Cases House of Lords.
_Doug._--Douglas’s Reports. K. B.
_Dow._--Dow’s Reports. House of Lords.
_Dowl. Pr. Ca._--Dowling’s Practice Cases.
_Dub._--Dubitatur.
_Dugd. Orig._; _Dugd., D. J._, or _Jud._--Dugdale’s Origines
Juridicales.
_Dug. S._; _Dugd. Sum._--Dugdale’s Summonses.
_Duke._--Duke’s Charitable Uses.
_Durnf._--Durnford and East, or Term Reports. K. B.
_E._--Easter Term, or Eden.
_E. T._--Easter Term.
_E. of Cov._--Earl of Coventry’s Case.
_East._--East’s Reports. K. B.
_East. P. C._--East’s Pleas of the Crown.
_Eden._--Eden’s Reports of Northington’s Cases.
_Edw. Ad. R._--Edwards’s Admiralty Reports.
_Eq. Ca._; _Eq. Ab._; _Eq. Ca. Abr._--Equity Cases Abridged.
_Ersk. Inst._--Erskine’s Institute of the Law of Scotland.
_Esp._--Espinasse.
_Esp. Ac. Stats._--Espinasse’s Action on the Statutes.
_Esp. Ev._--Espinasse’s Evidence.
_Esp. N. P._--Espinasse’s Digest.
_Esp. P. Stats._--Espinasse’s Penal Statutes.
_Esp. Rep._; _Esp. N. P. Rep._--Espinasse’s Reports at Nisi Prius.
_Ev. Col. Stat._--Evans’s Collection of Statutes.
_Ex._; _Exp._--Expired.
_F._, or _Fitz._--Fitzherbert’s Abridgment.--Fitzherbert’s
Abridgment _is commonly referred to by the older law writers by
the title and number of the placita only_, e. g. Coron. 30.
_F. N. B._; _Fitz. N. B._--Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium.
_Far._--Farresly (7 Mod. Rep.).
_Fell, Mer. G._--Fell on Mercantile Guarantees.
_Ff._--Pandectæ (Juris Civilis).--_This reference, which
frequently occurs in_ Blackstone _and other writers, applied to
the_ Pandects _or_ Digests _of the civil law, is a corruption
of the Greek letter π Vide_ Calvini Lexicon Jurid. _voc._
Digestorum.
_Field. Pen. Stat._--Fielding’s Penal Laws. 1769.
_Fin._; _Finch’s Rep._--Finch’s Reports. Chancery.
_Finch._--Finch’s Law.
_Fitz._; _Fitz. G._--Fitz-Gibbon’s Reports.
_Fl._--Fleta.
_Flat. Dig._--Flather’s Digest.
_Fol._--Foley’s Poor Laws.
_Fonbl. Eq._--Fonblanque on Equity.
_For._--Forrest’s Reports.
_For. Pla._--Brown’s Formulæ bene placitandi.
_Forrester._--Cases tempore Talbot.
_Forst._; _Fost._--Foster’s Crown Law.
_Forts._; _Fort._; _Fortesc._--Fortescue’s Reports.
_Fra._; _Fra. M._--Francis’s Maxims.
_Freem._--Freeman’s Reports.
_G. & J._; _Gl. & J._; _Gl. and Jam._; _Glyn & J._; _Glyn &
Jam._--Glyn and Jameson’s Reports, Cases in Bankruptcy.
_Gib. Cod._; _Gibs. Codex._--Gibson’s Codex Juris Civilis.
_Gilb._--Gilbert’s Cases in Law and Equity.
_Gilb. C. P._--Gilbert’s Common Pleas.
_Gilb. Dis._--Gilbert on Distresses.
_Gilb. Eq._, or _Rep. Eq._--Gilbert’s Reports in Equity.
_Gilb. Ev._--Gilbert’s Law of Evidence.
_Gilb. Ex._--Gilbert’s Executions.
_Gilb. Exch._--Gilbert’s Treatise on the Exchequer.
_Gilb. K. B._--Gilbert’s King’s Bench.
_Gilb. Rem._--Gilbert’s Remainders.
_Gilb. Us._--Gilbert’s Uses.
_Godb._--Godbolt’s Reports.
_Godol._; _Godolph._--Godolphin.
_Gods. Pat._--Godson on Patents.
_Golds._--Goldsborough’s Reports.
_Gow._--Gow’s Reports. Nisi Prius.
_Greenw._--Greenwood on Courts.
_Gro. de J. B._--Grotius de Jure Belli.
_Gwill._--Gwillim’s Tithe Cases.
_H._--Hilary Term.
_H. Bl._--H. Black.
_H. H. P. C._--Hales’s Hist Plac. Cor.
_H. P. C._--Hales’s Pleas of the Crown.
_Hagg. Adm. R._--Haggard’s Admiralty Reports.
_Hagg._; _Hagg. Con. Rep._--Haggard’s Reports of Cases in the
Consistory Court of London.
_Hagg. Eccl. Rep._--Haggard’s Ecclesiastical Reports.
_Hale P. C._--Hale’s Pleas of the Crown.
_Hale’s Sum._--Hale’s Summary of Pleas of the Crown.
_Hans._--Hansard’s Entries.
_Hans. Parl. Deb._--Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates.
_Hard._--Hardres’s Reports. Exchequer.
_Hardw._--Cases tempore Hardwicke.
_Haw._; _Hawk. P. C._--Hawkins’s Pleas of the Crown.
_Her._--Herne.
_Het._--Hetley’s Reports.
_H. T._; _Hi._; _Hil._--Hilary Term.
_Highm. Lun._--Highmore on Lunacy.
_Highm._--Highmore on Mortmain.
_Hob._--Hobart’s Reports.
_Holt._--Reports temp. Holt.
_Holt Lib._--Holt on Libel.
_Holt’s N. P. Rep._--Holt’s Nisi Prius Reports.
_Holt’s Rep._--Holt’s Reports.
_Holt Sh._--Holt on Shipping.
_How. St. Tr.; Howell’s St. Tri._--Howell’s Collection of State
Trials.
_Hugh._; _Hugh. Ent._--Hughes’s Entries.
_Humph. R. P._--Humphrey on the English Law of Real Property.
_Hut._--Hutton’s Reports.
_Imp. C. P._--Impey’s Practice, Common Pleas.
_Imp. K. B._--Impey’s Practice, King’s Bench.
_Imp. Sh._--Impey’s Sheriff.
_Imp. Pl._--Impey’s Pleader.
_Infra, and Supra._--(Below, and Above.) References to the same
division or subdivision.
_Inst._--Lord Coke’s Institutes.
_Inst. 2d & 3d._--Coke’s 2d, 3d, &c., Institutes.
_Inst. 1, 2, 3._--Justinian’s Institutes, lib. 1. tit. 2. sec. 3.
_J. & W._; _Jac. & W._; _Jac. & Walk._--Jacob and Walker’s
Reports.
_Jan. Angl._--Jani Anglorum.
_Jenk._--Jenkins’s Reports. Exchequer.
_1 Jon._--Sir William Jones’s Reports.
_2 Jon._--Sir Thomas Jones’s Reports.
_Jud._--Judgments.
_K. B._--King’s Bench.
_K. C. R._--Reports tempore King C.
_Keb._--Keble’s Reports. K. B.
_Keilw._--Keilwey’s Reports.
_Kel._; _Kely._--Sir John Kelynge’s Reports.
_Kely. 1, 2._--William Kelynge’s Reports, 2 parts.
_Ken._--Kennet.
_Keny._--Kenyon’s Reports.
_Kit._--Kitchin on Courts.
_L. C._--Lord Chancellor.
_La._--Lane’s Reports.
_Lamb._--Lambard’s Eirenarcha.
_Lat._--Latch’s Reports.
_Ld. H._--Lord Hardwicke.
_Ld. Raym._--Lord Raymond.
_Le._--Ley’s Reports.
_Leach_; _Lea. C. L._--Leach’s Crown Cases.
_Leon._--Leonard’s Reports.
_Lev._--Levinz’s Reports. C. P.
_Lev. Ent._--Levinz’s Entries.
_Lewin, C. C._--Lewin’s Crown Cases on Northern Circuit.
_Lex Man._--Lex Maneriorum.
_Lex Mercat. Red._--Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, by Beawes.
_Ley._--Ley’s Reports.
_Lib. Ass._--Liber Assisarum, or Pleas of the Crown.
_Lib. Feud._--Liber Feudorum.
_Lib. Int._--Liber Intrationum. Old Book of Entries.
_Lib. Pl._--Liber Placitandi.
_Lib. Reg._--Register Book.
_Lib. Rub._--Red Book.
_Lil._; _Lill._--Lilly’s Report of Assize.
_Lil. Abr._--Lilly’s Practical Register. Abridgment.
_Lill. Ent._--Lilly’s Entries.
_Lind._--Lindwood’s Provinciale.
_Lit._; _Litt. R._--Littleton’s Reports.
_Lit._ with _S._--Littleton, S. for section.
_Lofft._--Lofft’s Reports.
_Long Quinto._--Year Book, pt. 10.
_Lub. Pl._--Lubé on Pleading.
_Lut. Ent._--Lutwyche’s Entries.
_Lutw._--Lutwyche’s Reports.
_M. T._; _Mich._--Michaelmas Term.
_M. & A._; _Mont. & Ayr._--Montagu and Ayrton. Cases in
Bankruptcy.
_M. & B._--Montagu and Bligh.
_M. & K._--Mylne and Keene.
_M. & P._; _Moo. & Pay._--Moore and Payne’s Reports. C. P.
_M. & R._--Manning and Ryland’s King’s Bench Reports.
_MS._--Manuscript.
_M. & S._--Maule and Selwyn’s Reports. K. B.
_MS. C. C. R._--Manuscript Crown Cases reserved.
_M. & Scott_; _Moore & S._--Moore and Scott. Reports of Cases
argued in Common Pleas and Exchequer.
_MS. (D.)_--Manuscript of Mr. Durnford.
_Mad._; _Madd. Rep._--Maddock’s Reports in Vice Chancellor’s
Court.
_Mad. Chanc._--Maddock’s Chancery Practice.
_Mad. Exch._--Madox’s History of the Exchequer.
_Mad. Form._--Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum.
_Mal._--Malyne’s Lex Mercatoria.
_Man. & Gran._--Manning and Granger’s Exchequer Reports.
_Manw._--Manwood’s Forest Laws.
_Mar._--March’s Reports.
_Mar. Ins._--Marshall’s Insurance.
_Marsh._--Marshall’s Reports. Common Pleas.
_Mee. & Ros._--Meeson and Roscoe.
_Mer. R._; _Mer. Ch. Rep._--Merivale’s Reports in Chancery.
_Mir._--Horne’s Mirror of Justices.
_Mireh._--Mirehouse on Tithes.
_Mireh. Adv._--Mirehouse on Advowsons.
_Mitf._--Mitford’s Pleading.
_Mo._--Moore’s Reports.
_Mo._; _Moore (J. B.) Rept._--Moore’s Reports. C. P.
_Mod._; _Modern._--Modern Reports, in Law and Equity.
_Mod. C._--Modern Cases.
_Mod. C. L. & Eq._--Modern Cases in Law and Equity (8 and 9 Mod.
Rep.)
_Mod. Int._--Modus Intrandi.
_Mod._; _Mod. Rep._; _Modern._--Modern Reports.
_Moll._; _Moll. de Jur. Mar._--Molloy de Jure Maritimo.
_Mont. B. L._; _Bt. Laws._--Montagu’s Bankrupt Laws.
_Mont. & Bli._--Montague and Bligh.
_Mon. Eq. Pl._--Montagu’s Equity Pleading.
_Mon. Part._--Montagu on Partnership.
_Mont._--Montagu’s New Decisions in Bankruptcy.
_Mont. & Gregg. Dig._--Montagu and Gregg’s Digest of Bankrupt
Laws.
_M. & M._, _Mont. & Maca._--Montagu and Mac Arthur.
_M._, or _Mood. C. C. R._--Moody’s Crown Cases reserved.
_Moo. & Malk._; _Moody & M._--Moody and Malkins’s Nisi Prius
Reports.
_Mood. & Rob._--Moody and Robinson’s Nisi Prius Reports.
_Mos._--Moseley’s Reports.
_M. P. Ex._--Modern Practice Exchequer.
_MS. Sum._--Lord Hale’s Summary of Pleas of the Crown, with
Manuscript Notes and Additions.
_My. & Cr._--Mylne and Craig’s Chancery Reports.
_Myl. & Kee._--Mylne and Keene.
_N. Benl._--New Bendloe.
_N. L._--Nelson’s Lutwyche.
_N. & M._; _N. & Man._; _Nev. & Man._--Neville and Manning’s
King’s Bench Reports.
_N. Nov._--Novellæ (Juris Civilis).
_N. R._; _New Rep._--Bosanquet and Puller’s New Reports.
_Nar. Con._--Nares on Convictions.
_Nel. C. R._--Nelson’s Reports in Chancery.
_Nels._--Nelson’s Justice.
_No. N._--Novæ Narrationes.
_Nol._; _Nol. P. L._--Nolan’s Poor Laws.
_Nol. Rep._--Nolan’s Reports.
_Nol. Sett._--Nolan’s Settlement Cases.
_North._--Northington’s Reports.
_Noy._--Noy’s Reports.
_O. Benl._--Old Bendloe.
_Off. Br._--Officina Brevium.
_Off. Ex._--Office of Executors.
_Oldn. P._--Oldnall’s Welsh Practice.
_Ord. Ch._--Orders in Chancery.
_Ord. Cla._--Orders, Lord Clarendon’s.
_Ow._--Owen’s Reports.
_P._; _Pas._ (Pascha.)--Easter Term.
_P. C._--Pleas of the Crown.
_P. p._; _Pla. Par._--Placita Parliamentaria.
_Paley P. A._--Paley’s Law of Principal and Agent.
_Pal. Con._--Paley on Conviction.
_Pal._--Palmer’s Reports. King’s Bench.
_Park._--Parker’s Reports. Exchequer.
_Park. Ins._--Park on Insurance.
_Par. L._--Shaw’s Parish Law.
_Pat. Mort._--Patch on Mortgages.
_Pea._; _Peake’s Rep._--Peake’s Reports.
_Peak. Ca._--Peake’s Cases at Nisi Prius.
_Peak. Ev._--Peake’s Evidence.
_Peckw._--Peckwell’s Election Cases.
_Perk._--Perkins’s Conveyances.
_Petersd. Ba._--Petersdorff on Bail.
_Phill. Ev._--Phillips’ Law of Evidence.
_Phillim._; _Phil. Rep._--Phillimore’s Reports.
_Pig._--Pigot’s Recoveries.
_Pl._; _Pla._--Placita.
_Pl. Com._--Plowden’s Commentaries or Reports.
_Plow._; _Plowd._--Plowden’s Treatise on Tithes.
_Pol._; _Pollexf._--Pollexfen’s Reports.
_Poph._--Popham’s Reports.
_2 Poph._--Cases at the end of Popham’s Reports.
_Post, & Ante._ (After, and Before.)--References to divisions of
same title.
_Pow. Mort._--Powell on Mortgages.
_Pow. Mort. by Cov._--Powell on Mortgages, by Coventry.
_Poynt. Mar._--Poynter on Marriages.
_PR._--Private.
_P. R. C. P._--Pract. Register in Common Pleas.
_Pract. Chan._--Practice in Chancery. 1672.
_Pract. Reg._--Practical Register of Common Pleas.
_Pr. Reg. Ch._--Practical Register in Chancery.
_Pre. Ch._--Precedents in Chancery.
_Pre. Es._--Preston on Estates.
_Prest. Abs._--Preston on Abstracts.
_Prest. Con._--Preston on Conveyancing.
_Pr._; _Pri._--Price’s Reports. Exchequer.
_Priv. Lond._--Privilegia Londini.
_Pr. St._--Private Statute.
_Pult._--Pulton de Pace Regis et Regni. 1609.
_P. W._; _P. Wms._--Peere Williams’s Reports.
_Quinti Quinto._--Year Book, 5 Hen. V.
_Q. War._--Quo Warranto.
_R._--Resolved, Repealed.
_R. S. L._--Readings upon the Statutes. 1723
_Rast._--Rastall’s Entries and Statutes.
_Raym._--Raymond.
_T. Raym._--Sir Thomas Raymond’s Reports.
_Ld. Raym._--Lord Raymond’s Reports.
_Raym. Ent._--Lord Raymond’s Entries.
_Ree. E. L._--Reeve’s English Law.
_Reg. Brev._--Register of Writs.
_Reg. Jud._--Registrum Judiciale.
_Reg. Pl._--Regula Placitandi.
_Rep._ (1, 2, &c.)--1, 2, &c. Coke’s Reports.
_Rep. Eq._--Gilbert’s Reports in Equity.
_Rep. Jur._--Repertorium Juridicum.
_Rep. Q. A._--Reports tempore Q. Anne.
_Rep. temp. Finch._--Finch’s Reports.
_Ridg._--Ridgway’s Reports.
_Rigge on Registr._--Rigge on Registering Deeds.
_Ritson._--Ritson’s Office of Constable.
_Ro. Abr._--Rolle’s Abridgment.
_Ro. Rep._--Rolle’s Reports.
_Rob._--Robinson’s Entries.
_Rob. Adm._--Robinson’s Admiralty Reports.
_Rob. App._--Robertson’s Appeal Cases.
_Roll._--Roll of the Term.
_Roll. & Roll. Abr._--Rolle, Rep. and Abridgment.
_Rop. B. F._--Roper on Husband and Wife.
_Rot. B. Rep._--Rose’s Bankruptcy Reports.
_Rosc. Ev._--Roscoe on Evidence.
_Rosc. Crim. Ev._--Roscoe on Criminal Evidence.
_Run. Ejec._--Runnington’s Ejectment.
_Russ._--Russell.
_Russ. Cr._--Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanours.
_Russ. & M._--Russell and Mylne’s Chancery Reports.
_Russ. & Ry. C. C. R._--Russell and Ryan’s Crown Cases reserved.
_Rushw._--Rushworth’s Collections.
_Ry. F._--Rymer’s Fœdera.
_Ry. & Mo._--Ryan and Moody’s Reports.
_S._; Sect._; §._--Section.
_S. B._--Upper Bench.
_S. C._--Same Case.
_S. & D._--Shaw and Dunlop’s Cases in Court of Session.
_S. & L._; _Sch. & Lef._--Schoales and Lefroy’s Reports.
Chancery, in Ireland.
_S. & St._; _Sim. & St._--Simon’s and Stuart’s Reports. V. C.
Court.
_Salk._--Salkeld’s Reports.
_Sand. U. T._--Sanders on Uses and Trusts.
_Saund._--Saunders’s Reports.
_Sav._--Savile’s Reports.
_Say._--Sayer’s Reports.
_Sel. Ca. Ch._--Select Cases in Chancery.
_Seld._--Selden.
_Seld. Tit. of Hon._--Selden’s Titles of Honour.
_Sel. Pr._--Sellon’s Practice.
_Selw. N. P._--Selwyn’s Law of Nisi Prius.
_Sem._--Semble, seems.
_Sess. Ca._--Sessions Cases.
_Sess. Pap._--The Old Baily Sessions Papers.
_Sett. & Rem._--Cases in K. B. concerning Settlements and
Removals.
_Shaw._--Shaw’s Justice.
_Shaw P. L._--Shaw’s Parish Law.
_Shep. Touchst._--Sheppard’s Touchstone.
_Show._--Shower’s Reports.
_Show. P. C._--Shower’s Cases in Parliament.
_Sid._--Siderfin’s Reports.
_Sim._--Simons’s Reports of Cases in Chancery.
_Sim. & Stu._--Simons’s and Stuart’s Reports in the Vice
Chancellor’s Court.
_Simeon._--Simeon on Elections.
_Skin._--Skinner’s Reports.
_Smith._--Smith’s Reports.
_Som._--Somers, Somner.
_Spel._--Spelman.
_S. C. C._--Select Chancery Cases.
_S. P._--Same Point.
_St. Ca._--Stillingfleet’s Cases.
_St. T._--State Trials.
_Sta._--Starkie.
_Stark. C. L._--Starkie’s Criminal Law.
_Stark. C. P._--Starkie’s Criminal Pleading.
_Stark. Ev._--Starkie on Evidence.
_Stark. N. P._--Starkie’s Nisi Prius Reports.
_Staunf. P. C. & Pr._--Staunford’s Pleas of the Crown and
Prerogative.
_Stat. W._, or _W._--Statutes Westminster.
_Steph. Plead._--Stephen on Pleading.
_Str._; _Stra._--Strange’s Reports in Law and Equity.
_Sty._--Style’s Reports.
_Sug. Pow._--Sugden on Powers.
_Sug. Ven._; _Sugden’s Vend. & Purch._--Sugden’s Law of Vendors
and Purchasers.
_Sw._; _Swanst._--Swanston’s Reports in Chancery.
_Swin._--Swinburne on Wills.
_T. R._--Term. Rep., Teste Rege.
_T. R. E._, or _T. E. R._--Tempore Regis Edwardi.
_Talb._--Cases tempore Lord Talbot.
_Taun._--Taunton’s Reports. C. P.
_Terms of the L._--Terms of the Law.
_Th. Dig._--Theloall’s Digest.
_Th. Br._--Thesaurus Brevium.
_Tidd. App._--Tidd’s Appendix.
_Tidd. Co._--Tidd’s Costs.
_Tidd’s Pr._--Tidd’s Practice.
_Tol. Ex._--Toller’s Executors.
_Tom. Dict._--Tomlin’s Law Dictionary.
_Too. M. M._--Toone’s Magistrates’ Manual.
_Too. Ov. G._--Toone’s Overseers’ Guide.
_Toth._--Tothill’s Reports.
_Town’s Jud._--Townsend’s Judgments.
_Tr. Eq._--Treatise of Equity.
_Trem._--Tremaine’s Pleas of the Crown.
_Tri. per Pais._--Trials per Pais.
_Trin._--Trinity Term.
_Trye._--Trye’s Jus. Filazarii.
_Turn._--Turner’s (Ch.) Reports.
_Tyr. & Tynd. Dig._--Tyrwhitt and Tyndale’s Digest of Statutes.
_Tyrr. Sugg._--Tyrrell’s Suggestions.
_Tyrw._--Tyrwhitt’s Exchequer Reports.
_Tyrw. & Gran._--Tyrwhitt and Granger’s Exchequer Reports.
_V. & B._; _Ves. & B._; _Ves. & Beam._--Vesey and Beame’s Reports
in Chancery.
_V. C._--Vice Chancellor.
_Vaugh._--Vaughan’s Reports.
_Vent._--Ventris’s Reports.
_Vern._--Vernon’s Reports in Chancery.
_Ves. sen._--Vesey’s (sen.) Reports in Chancery.
_Ves._; _Ves. jun._--Vesey’s (jun.) Reports in Chancery.
_Vet. Ent._--Old B. Entries.
_Vet. N. B._--Old Nat. Brevium.
_Vez._--Vezey’s Reports.
_Vid._--Vidian’s Entries.
_Vin._--Viner.
_Vin. Abr._--Viner’s Abridgment.
_Vin. Inst._--Viner’s Institutes.
_W. 1. W. 2._--Statutes Westminster, 1, 2.
_W. & S._--Wilson and Shaw.
_Wat. Cop._--Watkins’s Copyholds.
_Wats._--Watson on Awards; or, Watson’s Sheriff.
_Wats. Cl._--Watson’s Clergyman’s Law.
_Wats. P._--Watson’s Partnership.
_Went. E._; _Went. Off._; _Went. Off. Ex._--Wentworth’s Office,
and Duty of Executors.
_Wight._--Wightwick’s Reports.
_Wil._; _Wils._--Wilson’s Reports in Chancery.
_Will. R._--Willes’s Reports.
_Wils. & Sh._--Wilson and Shaw’s Reports of Cases in House of
Lords.
_Win._--Winch’s Reports. Common Pleas. 1757.
_Wi. Ent._--Winch’s Entries.
_Wms. Just._--Williams’s Justice.
_Wms. Prec._--Williams’s Precedents.
_Wms._--Williams’s Rep., or Peere Williams.
_Wood’s Inst._--Wood’s Institutes.
_Woodf._--Woodfall’s Law of Landlord and Tenant.
_Wr. Ten._--Wright’s Tenures.
_Wy. Pr. R._--Wyatt’s Practical Register.
_Y. B._; _Yr. B._--Year Books. The Year Books are quoted by the
Year of each King’s Reign, the folio, page and number of the Plea
in the page, except par. 5, Liber Assisarum, for which see “Ass.”
or “Lib. Ass.” ante.
_Y. C. P._--Precedents of Proceedings on the Yeomanry Cavalry
Act, published July 1822.
_Yelv._--Yelverton’s Reports.
_Younge & J._--Younge and Jervis’s Exchequer Reports.
“_The modes of quoting the Civil and Canon Laws._--The INSTITUTIONS
are contained in four Books: each Book is divided into Titles; and
each Title into paragraphs; of which the first, described by the
Letters _pr._ or _princip._ is not numbered. The DIGESTS or PANDECTS
are in fifty Books: each Book is distributed into Titles; each Title
into Laws; and, very frequently, Laws into Paragraphs, of which the
first is not numbered. The CODE is comprised in twelve Books: each
of which is divided, like the Digests, into Titles and Laws; and,
sometimes, Laws into Paragraphs. The NOVELS are distinguished by
their Number, Chapter, and Paragraph.
“The old way of quoting was much more troublesome, by only mentioning
the Number, or initial Words, of the Paragraph or Law, without
expressing the number either of Book or Title. Thus, § _si adversus,
12 Inst, de Nuptiis_, means the 12th Paragraph of the Title in the
Institutions _de Nuptiis_, which Paragraph begins with the Words _si
adversus_; and which a modern Civilian would cite thus, I. 1. 10. 12.
So _l._ 30 _D. de R. J._ signifies the 30th Law of the Title in the
Digests _de Regulis Juris_: according to the modern way thus, D. 50.
17. 30. Again, _l._ 5. § 3. _ff. de Jurejur_. means the 3d Paragraph
of the 5th Law of the Title in the Digests de Jurejurando: better
thus, D. 12. 2. 5. 3. And here note, that the Digests are sometimes
referred to, as in the last instance, by a double f; and at other
times by the Greek Π or π.
“The method of quoting the ROMAN CANON LAW is as follows. The DECREE,
as said above, consists of three Parts; of which the first contains
101 Distinctions, each Distinction being subdivided into Canons:
thus, 1 _dist. c. 3. Lex_ (or 1 _d. Lex_) is the first Distinction,
and 3d Canon, beginning with the word _Lex_. The second part of
the Decree contains 36 Causes; each Cause comprehending several
Questions, and each Question several Canons: thus 3. _qu. 9. c.
2. Caveant_ is Cause the 3d, Question the 9th, and Canon the 2d,
beginning with _Caveant_. The third part of the Decree contains 5
Distinctions, and is quoted as the first part, with the addition
of the words _de Consecratione_; thus, _de Consecr. dist. 2. can.
Quia corpus_ (or, _can. Quia corpus 35. dist. 2. d. Consecr._)
means the 2d Distinction, and the 35th Canon of the Treatise _de
Consecratione_, which Canon begins with _Quia corpus_.
“The DECRETALS are in three Parts; of which the first contains
Gregory’s Decretals in 5 Books; each Book being divided into Titles,
and each Title into Chapters: and these are cited by the name of the
title, and the number of the chapter, with the addition of the word
_Extra_, or the capital letter X: thus, _c. 3. Extra de Usuris_;
is the 3d Chapter of the Title in Gregory’s Decretals, which is
inscribed _de Usuris_; which Title, by looking into the Index, is
found to be the 19th of the 5th Book. Thus also, _c. cum contingat.
36 X. de Offic. & Pot. Jud. Del._ is the 36th Chapter, beginning
with _Cum contingat_ of the Title, in Gregory’s Decretals, which is
inscribed _de Officio et Potestate Judicis Delegati_; and which, by
consulting the Index, we find is the 29th Title of the 1st Book. The
Sixth Decretal, and the Clementine Constitutions, each consisting
of _5_ Books, are quoted in the same manner as Gregory’s Decretals;
only, instead of _Extra_ or _X_, there is subjoined _in sexto_ or in
_6_, and _in Clementinis_ or _in Clem._ according as either part is
referred to: thus, _c. Si gratiose 5 de Rescrip. in 6_, is the _5_th
Chapter, beginning with _Si gratiose_, of the Title _de Rescriptis_,
in the _6_th Decretal; the Title so inscribed being the 3d of the 1st
Book: and Clem. 1. de Sent. et Re Judic. (or, _de Sent. et R. J. ut
calumniis, in Clem._) (or, _c. ut calumniis 1. de Sent. et R. J. in
Clem._) is the first Chapter of the Clementine Constitutions, under
the Title _de Sententiâ et Re Judicatâ_; which Chapter begins with
_Ut calumniis_, and belongs to the xith Title of the 2d Book.
“The EXTRAVAGANTS of John the 22d are contained in one Book,
divided into 14 Titles: thus, _Extravag. Ad Conditorem, Joh. 22. de
V. S._ means the Chapter, beginning with _Ad Conditorem_, of the
Extravagants of John 22d; Title, _de Verborum Significationibus_.
Lastly, the Extravagants of later Popes are called _Communes_, being
distributed into 5 Books, and these again into Titles and Chapters:
thus _Extravag. Commun. c. Salvator. de Præbend._ is the Chapter
beginning with _Salvator_, among the _Extravagantes Communes_; Title,
_de Præbendis._”--_Bibliotheca Legum._ See Dr. Hallifax’s Analysis of
the Roman Civil Law, and Butler’s Horæ Juridicæ Subsecivæ.
LAY DOWN.
To arrange the pages of a sheet, or of a half sheet upon the imposing
stone in their proper order, and to take the page papers from under
them. _See_ IMPOSING.
In the warehouse this term is used to denote the placing of the
printed sheets of a work upon the gathering table in their proper
order, for the purpose of gathering them together into complete books.