A TABLE 



CONTENTS OF THIS ENSUING TREATISE. 



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WHAT the Use of the Law principally consisteth in 207 



Surety to keep the peace 207 



Action of the case, for slander, battery, &c 207 



Appeal of murder given to the next of kin 207 



Manslaughter, and when a forfeiture of goods, and when not 208 



Felo de se, felony by mischance, deodand 208 



Cutting out of tongues, and putting out of eyes, made 



felony 208 



The office of the constable 208 



Two high constables for every hundred, and one petty con 

 stable for every village 209 



The King s Bench first instituted, and in what matters they 



anciently had jurisdiction 209 



The court of Marshalsea erected, and its jurisdiction within 

 twelve miles of the chief tunnel of the king, which is 



the full extent of the verge. . . 209 



Sheriff s Tourn instituted upon the division of England into 

 counties : the charge of this court was committed to the 



earl of the same county 210 



Subdivision of the county courts into hundreds 210 



The charge of the county taken from the earls, and com 

 mitted yearly to such persons as it pleased the king . . 210 

 The sheriff is judge of all hundred courts not given away 



from the crown 210 



County courts kept monthly by the sheriff 210 



The office of the sheriff $ 



Hundred courts, to whom first granted 211 



