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NUISANCE-continued.

Fresh indictment, when proper, for continuing state of non-repair, 410
Costs of prosecutions and defence, id.

Indictment,

Against inhabitants of a parish for not repairing a highway, 411
Against inhabitants of a township for not repairing a road, 412

For not repairing a highway situate in a parish which lies partly in a city
being a county of itself, and partly in the county at large, against the
whole parish, 413

Against a corporation for not repairing a highway which they were bound
to repair by custom, 414

Against inhabitants of a county for non-repair of a bridge, 415

Against a private individual bound ratione tenure to repair, for suffer-
ing a bridge to decay, id.

Against a corporation for suffering a watercourse, which they were bound
to cleanse, and which supplied the inhabitants with water, to be filthy
and unwholesome, 416

Plea,

Of the general issue, by the inhabitants of a parish to an indictment for
not repairing a road, 417

By the inhabitants of a parish to an indictment for not repairing a road
that an individual is bound to repair ratione tenuræ, id.

To an indictment against an entire parish that a particular division is
bound to repair, 418

Replication,

Denying a plea of liability of individuals to repair, id.

2. Nuisance in actual obstruction of ways, bridges, and rivers,

Law of offence, 419

Form of indictment for

Erecting a gate across a public footway, 420

Digging a ditch and raising a hedge across the highway, 421

Erecting and continuing a house, part of it being on the highway, id.

Digging a hole in a street, and leaving it uninclosed, whereby a carriage
was overturned, 422

Leaving open an area on the foot parement in a street, 423

Stopping an ancient watercourse, whereby the water overflowed the ad-
joining highway and damaged it, id.

Erecting dams and weirs in the river Trent, and thereby injuring the navi-
gation, id.

Diverting a watercourse running into a public pond or reservoir, 424

Cutting a gap in a bank, whereby water of a watercourse overflowed the
adjoining road, 425

Laying soil at night in the streets, id.

Shooting dirt on a footway, id.

Laying dung and rubbish in a carriage way to a church, 426

Keeping a waggon in a public street, so as to incommode passengers, id.
Letting off fireworks in a public street, 427

3. Nuisances in carrying on unwholesome occupations near habitations or
public ways, keeping gaming-houses, brothels, dangerous animals, &c., 427
Offence of, id. 428

Form of indictment for

Carrying on the business of a trunk-maker, so as to become a nuisance, 429
Keeping a disorderly house for fighting cocks, &c., id.

Keeping a bawdy-house, 430

For keeping a gaming-house and billiard-table, id.

For boiling bullock's blood for making colours near to public ways, 431

For erecting a furnace with a boiler, and using it for the boiling of tripe
and the offal of beasts, 432

For using a shop in a market as a slaughter-house, id.

For laying dung near public street, whereby the air was infected, id.

NUISANCE-continued.

For keeping a furious dog unmuzzled near highway, 433

For keeping hogs near a public street, id.

For knowingly keeping an unruly bull in a field where there was a public
footway, 434

For exposing a child infected with small-pox in the public streets, 435

NUMBER,

In indictment, 229

NURTURE,

Age of; see SETTLEMENT (BY Parentage) (BY APPRENTICESHIP)

OATHS,

Of office; see JUSTICES

Taking at sessions, 151

Refusal by juror or witness to take, 84

By officer appointed to office; see OFFICES
To be taken by dissenting preachers, 152

OATH,

How administered to witnesses, 513

To dumb man and interpreter, id.

Affirmation, when substituted in its place, 508, 547
Voluntary, 541.

OBSTRUCTING HIGHWAYS,

By distributing bills, loading carts, 288

OF, 227

OCCUPIERS,

Right of way for, 384, n.

OFFENCES,

Hour of committing, 186

Indictable; see MISDEMEANOUR, INDICTMENT

Enumerated, over which sessions have jurisdiction, 139-142

OFFICE AND OFFICER,

Settlement by serving; see SETTLEMENT OF POOR

Misnomer of officer returning jury process, 177

Refusing to accept, 436

Refusing to take the oath of office, evidence of refusal to take on himself the
execution of it, id.

Form of indictment for refusing to take the office of chief constable after
appointment at the quarter sessions, id.

For refusing to be sworn as constable of a manor, after election at a court leet
and certificate from the steward, 437

For refusing to serve the office of overseer, 438

For not appearing when summoned as a juror on a coroner's inquest, 439
Extortion, oppression, and fraud in, 440

Extortion, what, id.

How extortion punished, id.

Corrupt exercise of authority by magistrates, how punishable, id.

Form of indictment against a constable for extorting money under colour of
discharging a bench warrant, 441

Against a gaoler for extortion, id.

Against a toll-collector for extorting toll from one who had compounded, 442
Against a justice for causing a person to be imprisoned in a matter of which
he had no cognizance, id.

Against justices for partiality in refusing a publican's license, 444
Neglecting duties of public office, 445

Instances of such neglect, id.

When indictable, id.

OFFICE AND OFFICER-continued.

Form of indictment against

A constable for neglecting to execute a justice's warrant for the apprehension
of a person, 446

A constable for refusing to aid another, when called on to apprehend a per-
son accused, 447

A headborough for refusing to convey a party to gaol committed by a jus-
tice, 448

A township for burying a body without notice to the coroner, id.

A coroner for refusing to take an inquisition, 449

A bailiff for inserting his own name in a warrant directed to another, and
arresting upon it, 450

A surveyor of highways for not making a rate pursuant to a warrant, 451
An innkeeper for not receiving a guest, he having room in the meantime, 452

OLD BAILEY, 918, n.; see MIDDLESEX

OPEN OR INCLOSED GROUNDS, 258; see GAME, DEER

ORDER OF BASTARDY; see BASTARDY

ORDERS OF JUSTICES-DISOBEYING

Disobedience to, is indictable offence, 554
Form of indictment against

A high constable for disobeying an order of sessions, 455

An overseer for not paying a weekly sum for the support of a bastard child,
pursuant to an order of justices, id.

The father of a bastard child for disobeying an order of justices for its main-
tenance, 457

The stewards of a friendly society for disobeying an order of justices, 458
Forms of orders, in case of

Apprentices; see APPRENTICE

Goods unlawfully removed; see DISTRESS

Friendly society; see FRIENDLY SOCIETY

Require somewhat less technical nicety than conviction, 621, 622, 628, 840, n.
Are supposed to be returned to sessions, 920

Appealed against, should be returned to sessions, 649

Differing from order of sessions thereon, which last is defective, effect as to
quashing or affirming former, 656, n.

ORDERS RELATING TO HIGHWAYS; see HIGHWAY

ORDER OF REMOVAL; see REMOVAL OF PAUPERS
By borough magistrates, 4, and Addenda

ORDER OF SESSIONS,

Disobeying; see ORDER OF JUSTICES

Confirmed on appeal, final, 903, n.

Defects in, how affect the previous order of justices adjudicated on, 614, n.
Quashing in part, 656

ORIGINAL,

Is evidence, where copy is, 540

OTHERS,

As to this term in indictment, 338

OVERSEERS; see REMOVAL, OFFICE, WITNESS

Appointed at special session, 13

Property of, how laid in indictment, 192, 193

Appeal against appointment of, 700

Compelling appointment of, 675

Assistant overseer may be paid from poor's rates, id.

Special session to investigate their accounts, 706

OVERSEERS-continued.

Appeal against accounts of,

How accounts examined and allowed, 701
Inspection of their accounts, 702

To what session, 703

Notice of, id.

When respited, id.

Waiver of notice, 704

At hearing respondents begin, id.

What sums shall be allowed and disallowed in the accounts, 675, 704

What justices cannot vote at, 706

Judgment, costs, &c., id.

Appeal against disallowance of overseers' accounts,

To special sessions, 706

Requisites before entering, 708

Hearing and judgment, id.

Assistant overseer not recognized by courts, 675, n.

His appointment should be produced; 6 Ad. & E. 871

OUTLAWRY,

Proceeding to, after bill found or articles of peace exhibited, 205, 206
Amounts to conviction, even in capital case, 205

For capital crime, is equivalent to attainder, 270

Does not incapacitate witness, 551, 552

After judgment in misdemeanour, 601, n. (y), 602

What, 952

In cases of felony is in itself attainder, id.

In case of misdemeanour, 954

Clerk of peace to certify names of parties outlawed into queen's bench, 952
Effects of outlawry, id.

From what jurisdiction process of outlawry may issue, 953; Addenda iv.
Reversing judgment after, 176

OWNERSHIP OF GOODS,

How laid; see LARCENY

OYER AND TERMINER, 122, n.

Commission of, in Middlesex, 918; see MIDDLESEX

Quarter sessions is not a court of, for all purposes, 141, 518, 588, Qu.; see 51, n.

PAPER,

Stealing pieces of, 235

Stealing a letter, 789

PARCEL,

Basket may be described as, 322, n.

PARCENERS,

Describing in indictment, 192

PARCHMENT,

Stealing parchment on which record is written, 217

PARDON,

Enduring punishment amounts to, and recapacitates, except in perjury, 551, 965
Granting, by governor to transported convict, 599

In what cases crown may grant, 955

Not to bar actions, id.

Not to stay prosecutions for nuisances, 956

When grantable of right, 957

To persons convicted of excusable homicide, id.

To accomplices, by provisions of penal statutes, id.

To persons to whom it is promised by proclamation, 958

When grantable by grace and favour, id.

To accomplices admitted witnesses, (or king's evidence,) by magistrates, 959

PARDON-continued.

Mode of obtaining, for offences tried at sessions, 960-962

In cases of accomplices admitted evidence, 961

Mode of proceeding to obtain, after conviction at sessions, id.; see 877
Fees on, abolished by 58 G. III. c. 29, 963

Effect of transportation and subsequent remission of part of sentence, 599,
963

Effect of pardon as to civil rights, 964

As to fines and penalties, id.

Provision of 7 & 8 G. IV. c. 28, s. 13, respecting, 965

Provision of 9 G. IV. c. 32, s. 3, as to capacitating effect of suffering the
discretionary punishments substituted for clergy, id.

Pardons on condition of imprisonment in Penitentiary to hard labour, 966
Pardons on condition of quitting kingdom by voluntary transportation, id.
PARENTHESIS, 176

PARISH,

Is not taken to contain more towns than one, 227
Aforesaid, 184; see 175

Alleging, in indictment, 187, 188

Alleging non-existing parish in indictment, 189

PARISH OFFICERS,

To deliberate before appealing, and majority to act, 630
PARISHIONER,

Rating for land in two parishes, 693
When a witness, 557; see INHABITANT

PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT ACT, 687
PARTICULARS,

Of specific charges in embezzlement, &c., 194, 195
Of charges in indictment; see BARRATRY, EMBEZZLEMENT
PARTY,

May advocate his own charge or defence, 133, 134

PARTIES TO APPEAL, 621; see APPEAL
PARTNERS,

Cannot be guilty of stealing partnership goods, 225
Stolen goods of, how laid in indictment, 192, 234
Describing in indictment, 192

PARTY GRIEVED OR CONCERNED,

Who is, in order to have right to appeal, 628, 629, 638, 935

By refusing alehouse license, 35; see ALEHOUSES

See COSTS (of Certiorari)

PAYMENT, 220, 221

PAUPER,

Subpoenaing as witness on appeal against order of removal; see tit. REMOVAL
PEDIGREE,

Proving, 536

PEER; see DIGNITY, INDICTMENT

Irish, described, 190, 191

When may be a juror, or challenged for being such; see PETTY JURY
PENITENTIARY; see tit. JUDGMENT and Discharge

PERJURY,

When laid at common law, is not triable at sessions, 140, et seq., 291
How may be tried at sessions, 142, n.

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