CHAP. XV.

OF SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.

Of Summary Proceedings generally

Of Summary Proceedings under the Excise

Of Summary Proceedings before Justices of the Peace

Of Assault Cases

Of the Juvenile Offenders' Acts..

..

Of the Summary Jurisdiction in Cases of Larceny, &c.

Of the Course of Proceedings on Summary Convictions

Of the Process on Attachments for Contempt

CHAP. XVI.

OF ARRESTS FOR FELONY OR MISDEMEANOR.

Of Arrests under Warrant

Of Arrests by Officers without Warrant

Of Arrests by Private Persons without Warrant

Of Arrests under Hue and Cry

Of Confession

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465

ibid.

467

469

473

474

476

ibid.

545

Of Forfeiture of Goods and Chattels on Capital and other Felonies

Of certain Differences between Forfeiture of Lands and Forfeiture of

547

548

549

552

554

OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE LAWS OF

ENGLAND.

Of the Progress from the earliest Times to the Norman Conquest

569

Of the Progress from the Norman Conquest to Edward I.

Of the Progress from Edward I. to the Reformation ..

Of the Progress from the Reformation to the Restoration

591

Of the Progress from the Restoration to the Revolution

600

Of the Progress from the Revolution to the Publication of Black-

NEW COMMENTARIES

ON

THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.

BOOK V.

OF CIVIL INJURIES-(continued).

CHAPTER XII.

OF PREROGATIVE WRITS, AND OTHER EXTRA-
ORDINARY REMEDIES IN THE COURTS

OF COMMON LAW.

We have now taken a view of the method of proceeding in all actions, whether regular or irregular, (if those terms. may be used,) which are known in the modern practice.

The common law however affords, in certain cases of civil injury, other remedies, of a nature generically different from an action, and to these we propose to devote the following chapter. But as the proceedings in them are generally introduced by that kind of application to the court, which is technically called a motion, it will be proper to premise some explanation as to the nature of a motion in general. And here we shall confine ourselves to appli

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