Chapter L: Laity, when excluded from the election of the clergy, 78

Lands, their property how far alienable among the Jews, 3

Lands, distributed to the Christians by the General Assembly, 34

⸺ interest of Lord and vassal therein, 65

⸺ Saxons, by what tenures they held their lands, 254

Langton, Legate, 338

Lateran, council of, 89

Lawing, 280

Laws feudal, the foundation of the law of things, 14

⸺ the foundation of the English constitution, 15

⸺ method of teaching them, 17

⸺ their origin and progress, _ibid._

⸺ succeed the Roman imperial law, 19

⸺ various opinions on their origin, _ibid._

⸺ not derived from Roman laws and customs, 21

⸺ first reduced into writing by the Lombards, 23

⸺ their tendency to cherish the national liberties of mankind, 27

⸺ in ENGLAND, permit no Lord to be challenged by the suitors, 96

⸺ allow a power of appeal to the King’s court, _ibid._

⸺ their doctrine of remainder, _ibid._

⸺ respecting warranty, 119

⸺ wardship, 123, 124

⸺ their obligations on minors, 132

Laws POSITIVE, or general customs, always to be found in communities
however barbarous, 1

⸺ a knowledge of them a means of procuring respect and influence,
2

⸺ of things and persons, which to be first treated on, 14

⸺ few and intelligible in small societies, _ibid._

⸺ when necessarily numerous and extensive, _ibid._

⸺ inconveniencies attending their multiplicity, 3

⸺ of what kind in Rome at different periods, 4

⸺ their great increase in Europe since the, 14th century, 5

⸺ of NORMANDY, respecting the marriage of females in wardship, 129

⸺ of ENGLAND, advantages attending a knowledge of them, 8

⸺ what required by them in transferring possessions, 74

⸺ its maxim respecting the devising of lands by will, 145

⸺ how enacted, 217

⸺ their ancient method of passing, _ibid._

⸺ their tendency to promote liberty, 234

⸺ alterations introduced in them by Henry II., 289

Lawyers, 3

Laymen, how far exercising ecclesiastical discipline, 48

⸺ tithes granted to them in fee, 89

⸺ by what means possessed of lands discharged of tithes, 92

Legates of Rome, 83

Leinster, county palatine of, 201

Letters Patent for creating of Peers, 190

⸺ when took place, 193

⸺ grants by them, how forfeited, 194, 195

⸺ anciently called Chartæ Regis, 305

⸺ repealable by the Lord Chancellor, _ibid._

Lex Terræ, what, 355

Licences to marry, 131

Liberty of the subject, how advanced, 313

⸺ how ascertained, 333

Littleton, 14, 15, 61, 73, 116, 124, 225, 229

Livery and seizen, 58, 59

Locke, Mr., 12

Longchamp Archbishop of Canterbury, 330

Lords feudal, their power over minors respecting marriage, 129

⸺ respect paid by them to the person of their King, 171

⸺ their power over their villeins, 224, 232

⸺ of parliament in England, their rank, 187

⸺ created by writ, or letters patent, 190

⸺ privilege to their eldest sons, 192

⸺ their titles extinct on surrender, 195

⸺ their quality as noblemen, 187

⸺ spiritual, 202

⸺ lay, their form of trial, 204

Lombards, 4

Lupus, Hugh, 199

Lycurgus, 3