the commissioners, id.; form of warrant for water bailiff, 541; as to appeal
to judge of assize, 544; penalty for illegally using nets on the coast, id.;
persons re-erecting or using illegal weirs, &c. 544; oyster beds, when to be
deemed private property, 546; close season for oysters, 518, 542; power
to make oyster beds, 561; stealing oysters, 648; dredging for, during
close time, 546; as to conservators and their election, 548; using weirs,
nets, instruments, &c., without license, 549, 557; fisheries to be subject
to annual rate according to valuation, 549, 556; rate recoverable before
J.P., 550; counterfeiting licences, 550; licence to be produced when re-
quired, id.; fishing without licence, 557, 549; scale of licences, 554;
appeal against licence duty, 556; minimum of penalties, 553; definition
of terms used in the several fishery acts, 554, 555; when lands and fish-
eries vested in one person, 556; when owner under legal disability, 556;
J.P.s being conservators may act, 556; nets, &c. not to be used within
certain distances of weirs, 560; otters gaffs, &c. prohibited, 560.
FISHERMEN, international regulations respecting, 22.
FIXTURES, stealing, 563; see LANDLORD AND TENANT.
FLAGS, may be taken from party processions, 69; see PARTY PROCESSIONS,
648; party display of, 70.
FLAX, beating by roadside, 399; burning by roadside, 400; sold in open
market, 622; to be examined, 623.
FLOUR. See BREAD AND FLOUR, 462; frauds as to, 392.
FOOD, not finding children sufficient, 485; unwholesome, see powers as to,
685; adulteration of 33, 392; see APPENDIX tit. FOOD AND Drink, 563,
for offence of selling unwholesome materials, &c.
FOOTBALL on Sunday illegal, 680.
FOOTWAY, may be a highway, 604; in towns, obstructing, 686, 687.
FORCIBLE entry or detainer. See APPENDIX, 567; pulling down houses,
567; married woman may be guilty of, 122; how committed, 568; sum-
mary jurisdiction, 568.
FOREIGNERS, jurisdiction of J. P. over, 21; being fishermen, jurisdic-
tion of J. P. over, 23; to be punished summarily, id.; international regu-
lations respecting, 22; foreign deserters, 569, 640.
FOREMAN summoned in absence of master, 411.
FORMER conviction or acquittal a good defence, 143, 34.
FORMS in Petty Sessions Act deemed valid, 165, 365.
FORTHWITH, meaning of, 36, 171.
FOWL, liberty reserved to, 570.
FRANCE, offenders escaping from, 21.
FRAUD in sale of goods, hearing complaint, 157, 392; in sale of goods,
FRIENDLY SOCIETY. See APPENDIX, 569.
FRUIT TREES, destroying, 440; stealing, 433.
FRY OF FISH. See FISHERIES.
FURIOUS DRIVING, 493; regulations as to, see DRIVERS.
FURZE, burning, on mountain, 600, 574, 577.
GAME. See APPENDIX; killing hares or rabbits in warren by night, 428;
defendant cannot be a witness in prosecution, 76; magistrate's jurisdiction
under laws, 119; limitation of prosecutions, 120; service of summons, 131;
appeal in game cases, 572; no power to award costs, 572, 167; cases of,
not comprised in P. S. Act, 368, 570; no legal definition of game, 570;
trespass, id.; there must be a personal entry, id. ; in whom is the right
of sporting, id. ; owner of land entitled to game and to sue for, 571; who
may inform, id.; what the conviction should disclose, id.; parties liable
for trespass although exempt from licence duty when coursing, 572 ; quali-
fication to keep sporting dogs, 573, 575, 579; persons qualified conceal-
ing the same for those not qualified, 573; tenants keeping, 575; as to
shooting deer, 426, 428, 574; season for killing deer, 574; burning moun-
tain, heath, gorse, &c. 574, 577, 600; tracing game, &c. in the snow, 575;
destroying eggs, &c. id.; shooting pigeons, id.; larceny of, 430; servants
not to sell game, 575; officers of the army infringing game laws, 575 ;
seizure of guns and dogs, 576; power to keep dogs in a manor, 577; sea-
son for killing different kinds of game, 577, 582, 590; higlers, &c. having
possession of game, 578, 579; trespass in pursuit of game, 579, 570, 571;
what is looking for game, 580; destroying dogs of persons not qualified,
580; as to appeal see 581, 185; amount of recognizance, 582; persons
taking or destroying game by night, 583; owners of land may apprehend
offenders night poaching, 584; what time to be deemed night, 586; de-
stroying game or rabbits on roads, id.; certificate to kill game, 587, 588;
gamekeeper to register deputation, 587; compelling production of certifi-
cate, 588; licence to sell game, 589 to 595; whether dead or alive, 592;
no licence to sell hares, id.; no certificate necessary to kill rabbits, 591;
warrant to apprehend person taking rabbits by night, 595; form of, to
seize dog, id.; statement in conviction of offence of trespass in pursuit of
game, id.; form of information for keeping greyhound without being duly
qualified, 596; form of information for killing game on a Sunday, 596;
sporting on a Sunday, 579; information for night poaching, 596.
GAMEKEEPER. See GAME.
GAMES AND WAGERS, playing on public roads, 398; on Sunday
illegal, 680; in public houses, 662; house, what it is, 597; powers of J.P.
to be exercised under warrant, 597; proof of gaming in, 598; penalties
on gaming house keeper, 598; seizing things in, 598; thimblers and
swindlers, 599, 689; keeping, a common nuisance, 645.
GAOL, searching for spirits in, 60.
GAOLER, to give receipt for prisoner, 113, 360; to produce prisoner on
remands, &c., 106, 355; duty to discharge prisoner, 113; not paying
over fines, 386; permitting escape of prisoner, 496.
GARDEN, injuring plants in, 439-441; stealing fruit, &c. in, 433.
GAS. See offences as to, 599; measures as to, 599; penalties, id.
GATE, injuring or destroying, 441; possession of stolen, 433; on railway,
fastening, 670.
GENERAL TERMS may be used, 365.
GIRL, forcibly abducting, 452; assault on young girl, 449; carnally know-
ing, 599.
GLANDERS, exposing a glandered horse, 600.
GOAT, impounded, 417; fine for trespass of, 416.
GOOD FRIDAY, no process for recovery of debts on, 487; playing bil-
liards on, 598.
GOODS, value of, in excise cases, 500; condemning, 501; warehousing, see
600; warehouse keepers giving access to, id.; rescuing goods seized, see
SMUGGLING; master of ship to account for, when unshipped, 602.
GORSE, burning on mountain, 600, 574, 577.
GRAIN, setting fire to crop of, 600.
GRAND JURY. See PRESENTMENT SESSIONS; see also APPENDIX, when
indictment found by warrant to arrest is issued, 341, 46; to provide stan-
dard for weights, 698; cess, recovery of, 600; applotters entering on
land to value, id.; treasurer not posting notices, id.
GRAVE, removing corpse from, 485; regulations as to grave, 466; digging
grave by way of, threat, 473.
GRAVEL, county surveyor taking from side of road, 395.
GRAZING in church yard, 466; cattle trespassing, 420.
GREAT BRITAIN, offence committed in, 24; backing warrants, 45.
GREYHOUND. See GAME.
GUAGE for tide to be kept in harbour, 602.
GUARD, of coach, &c. penalty, 401; misconduct of, 402.
GUARDIAN, ex officio, 275; required to prosecute, 86, 451; who may be,
id.; member of dispensary committee, id.; apprenticing boys to sea ser-
vice, 454; see POOR; officers of the poor disobeying orders of, 659.
GUNS, using on roads, 398; form of information for using on Sunday, 596.
GUNPOWDER, exploding fireworks, &c., 601; in streets, 509; search-
ing for, 444, 601; regulations as to, 601.
HABEAS CORPUS to take prisoner up for examination, 42; to obtain
bail, 94; what it is, 213; writ to examine the commitment, id.; duty of
judges to issue, id. ; how obtained, 214; application for a rule, id.; pro-
ceedings upon return, 215; form of return, id.; ambiguous return, id.;
controverting the return, 216; where certiorari also necessary, 216.
HACKNEY coach licences, 689; carriage regulations in towns, id.
HANDCUFFING prisoner, 54.
HANDICRAFTSMAN, complaint of misbehaviour, 629.
HARBOUR, committal of crime in, information, 328; firing guns in, 603;
improperly discharging ballast, 513; regulations of dock and piers, 601.
HARBOURING, concealing felons, &c. 601.
HARD LABOUR, when it may be ordered, 164, 349.
HARE, See GAME; killing in warren by night, 428.
HAWSERS to ships to be substantial, 602.
HAY, setting fire to, 603.
HEALTH, as to contagious diseases, see 480; fevers, preventing, 481.
HEARING, before whom in summary proceedings, 135, 344; place of, in
summary proceedings an open court, 137; party's right to act as advocate,
138; defendant's confession, 138; ordering witnesses out of court, 139;
examination to be taken down, 139, 345; evidence to be given, 140.
143; in revenue and excise cases, 144; of the appeal, 195, 197; other-
wise in indictable offences, 137; case for complaint, 139; case, summary
proceedings, 344; a ease of disputed debts, 491; of excise case, 497, 499.
HEATH, setting fire to, 603, 574, 577.
HEDGE by road side to be pruned, 394; to whom it belongs, 570; stealing
part of, 432.
HEIFER, impounding, 417; fine for trespass of, 416.
HERRINGS. See FISHERIES.
HIGGLERS, of game; see GAME.
HIGH CONSTABLE, how appointed, 274,
HIGHWAY, what it is, 604; injury to, &c. id.; obstructing, may be a
common nuisance, 645; see ROADS.
HIGH SEAS, offences on, 603, 328.
HIRE of carts, &c. disputes as to, 410.
HIRING of workmen, &c. combination, 473; of servant, duration of, 631.
HOMICIDE, by misfortune, 604.
HORNED BEAST, impounded, 417; baiting, 483; fine for trespass of
HORSE, turning loose on roads, 398; &c. selling on roads, 400; impounded,
415, 419; fine for trespass of, 416; cruelty to, 483; slaughtering, 484;
glanders 600; racing not illegal, 598; larceny of, 461.
HOT HOUSE, injuring plants in, 440; stealing plants in, 433.
HOURS of work in factories, 508.
HOUSE BREAKING, a felony, 604.
HOUSE KEEPER, when qualified to be bail, 98.
HOUSES, pulling down, 625; building too near road, 394; waste by tenant,
279, 281; demolishing when persons in, 604; burglary in, 604.
HUE AND CRY, arrest by, 53.
HUNT, liberty reserved to 570.
HURLING on Sunday, illegal, 680; on public roads, 398.
HUSBAND cannot be examined for or against wife in criminal proceedings,
74; otherwise in civil proceedings, 76; goods taken by wife, 610; desert-
ing wife, 604.
ICE, sliding on roads, 398.
IDIOTS cannot be witnesses, 78; J. P. to commit to gaol, 289.
IDLE persons, removal of, 481.
ILLEGITIMATE child. See POOR.
ILLICIT spirits, search warrant for, 59; distillation, proceedings under,
117; distillation, 604, 606; warrant to search for, 605; penalties, id.
ILLNESS of prisoner before committal, 101.
IMMEDIATE, definition of, 36.
IMPOUNDING distresses. See DISTRESS.
IMPRISONMENT, ordering in conviction, 163; at expiration of previous
sentence, 349; scale of, 164, 348; determined on payment of fine, 348;
form of warrant, 375; false, offence of, 509.
INCITING a person to commit an offence, 606.
INCOME TAX, J. P. administering oath, 245, 606.
INDECENCY, what it is, 606; in towns, 607, 688; admitting to bail, 95.
INDIAN CORN, see 463.
IDICTABLE offence, taking evidence in, 77, 137, 327, 335; information
as to, 328, 24.
INDICTMENT, J. P. liable to, see CRIMINAL INFORMATION; found, war-
rant to arrest, 46; certificate of having been found, id.; prevention of
vexatious, 692.
INDORSEMENT on warrants, form of, 378.
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