origin of the fire which took place on the day of A. D.118 by which the shop, (dwelling or other building) situated upon Lot No. on the county, was wholly (or partly) consumed by fire, it became necessary to adjourn the said inquiry from the of day A.D. 18 (if more than one adjournment give the dates of the others) and such adjournment was made, and was necessary in my opinion for the following purpose (here state the purpose). THE CAPTION, OR INCIPITUR OF A FIRE INQUISITION. in the 1 situate in the of on the day of year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria before C. D., Esquire, one of the coroners of our said Lady the Queen for the said county, to inquire into the cause or origin of a certain fire which occurred in the said day of year of the reign of our A.D. 18 in the said o'clock noon (or in the forenoon or afternoon as the case may be), whereby the house (or other building) of A. B., &c., situate 1 See note 1, p. 384. upon Lot No. in the said the county of of on the of side of street (or upon Lot No. in in the said concession of the township of as the case may be) was wholly (or in part) consumed, upon the oath (or oath and affirmation) (naming all the jurors sworn), good and lawful men of the said duly chosen from among the householders resident in the vicinity of the said fire; and who, being then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lady the Queen, into the cause or origin of said fire, and whether it was kindled by design or was the result of negligence or accident, do upcn their oaths say that, &c., (then follows the verdict or finding of the jury, and after that the attestation or closing part of the inquisition. See Form No. 75 p. 398). N. B.-Any other forms required in relation to fire inquests can be adapted from the corresponding forms relating to ordinary inquests. INDEX. A. ABATEMENT, of injunctions, 280 ABJURATION of felons, taking, 42 ABORTION, when allowable, 100 ACCESSORY, before the fact, 31, 32, 66 can be none to manslaughter, 66 cannot be guilty of higher crime than principal, 66 after the fact, 66 ACCELERATION of death, 74 ACCIDENTALIA dementia, 59 ACCIDENTS, deaths from, 81, 88 ACCOMPLICE, evidence of, 191 ACCOUNTS, how to be rendered, 288, 289 of coroners, power to disallow, 13, 14 ACCUSED, statement of, 191, 199, 336 ACID of sugar, symptoms of, 124 antidote to, 152 ACONITUM NAPELLUS (aconite), symptoms of, 148 antidote, 158 ACQUIRED madness, definition of, 60 ACTION, liability of coroners to, 208 proclamation on, 333 of inquiry, 223, 242 ADMISSIBILITY of inquisitions, etc., as evidence, 203 ETHUSA cynapium, symptoms of, 148 AFFECTATA dementia, 60 AFFIRMATION of witnesses, 221, 222 AGE, uterine, of a child, 96 AGED persons, death of, from want, etc., 86 AIDERS and abettors, 63, 64 ALCOHOL, deaths from, 86, 99, 143 antidote to, 157 ALFRED, coroners known in time of, 2 antidotes to, 153 ALKALOIDS, often not found, 118 ALIEN, enemy may be killed in time of war, ALIVE, when is child born, 91 75 ALLEGIANCE, oath of, to be taken by coroners, 4 AMENDING inquisitions and taking new inquests, 277, 294 ANALYSIS, remarks upon, 250, 262, 263, 264 who shall perform, 250 time required to perform, 264 costs of, 264, 287, 312 ANATOMY, duties under Act, 51, 246 ANALINE, symptoms of, 135 antidote, 156 ANIMALS, experiments on, not conclusive, 117 ANTIDOTES, general remarks upon, 151 for sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), 151 hydrochloric acid, 152 oxalic acid (acid of sugar), 152 alkalies, 153 arsenic-arsenious acid, 153 corrosive sublimate (chloride of mercury), 154 lead, 154 copper, 155 antimony, 155 zinc, 155 cantharides, 155 tin, 155 nitrobenzole (essence of mirbane), 156 aniline, 156 carbolic acid, 156 prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid), 156 colchicum, 156 opium-laudanum, 157 morphine, 157 alcohol, 157 chloroform, 157 chloral hydrate, 157 strychnine, 157 aconite-aconitine, 158 belladonna-atropine, 158 |