The Law and the Poor

by Sir Edward Abbott Parry

INDEX

Abinger, Lord Chief Baron, his judgment in Priestley v. Fowler, [77], [78], [95], [96]
Ademantus, [254]
Administration orders in bankruptcy, [119-124]
Alehouse, the, [252-270]
“Alton Locke,” slums described in, [238]
American judiciary and working classes, [93], [94], [95];
and workmen’s compensation, [103]
Appeals, cost of, [175]
Artisans Dwelling Act, 1875, [241]
Asquith, Right Hon. Herbert Henry, on workmen’s compensation, [87]
Attorney-General v. The Edison Telephone Co., [83]
Bacon, Lord Chancellor, [305]
Bail, unnecessary refusal of, [226];
statistics of this, [228], [229]
Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, on intemperance, [255], [256]
Bankruptcy, [106-124];
failures due to extravagance, [115-117];
not open to the poor, [118];
administration orders, [120];
exorbitant Treasury fees, [122-124]
Bell, Alexander Graham, [82]
Belloc, Hilaire, [254]
Bentham, Jeremy, on legal evidence, [192]
Bias in judges, [96-103]
Bills of Sale Acts, [168]
Black Act, 1722, [218]
Blasphemy Laws, [199], [200]
Blue Books, [301], [302]
Bradlaugh, Charles, [199]
Bridewell, the, [9-10], [213]
Bright, John, [99]
Brougham, Lord, on imprisonment for debt, [48], [49];
on the Evidence Amendment Act, [193];
on Chancery reform, [287], [288]
Butler, Samuel, [211]
Cadaval, Duke de, arrested on mesne process, [46]
Capias ad satisfaciendum, [37], [39]
Carlyle, Thomas, on history, [21];
on language, [108], [110];
on fools, [153];
on land question, [250]
Cattle maiming, [216-219]
Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, on workmen’s compensation, [87-90];
on administration orders, [119], [120];
is housing work in Birmingham, [241]

Chancery Court, and Lord Brougham, [287]
Children, treatment of, in workhouses, [280], [282]
Closing time, regulations for rich and poor, [263], [264]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [169]
Cobbett, Sir William, [186]
Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, his description of peine forte et dure, [11], [201];
on early Poor Laws, [274], [275]
Collier, Sir Robert, on imprisonment for debt, [55], [56]
“Compleat Constable,” The, [4-7]
Conciliation in trade disputes, [110]
Conciliation, preliminary of, in France, [187]
Corporal punishment, advisability of, discussed, [209-212]
Costs in police court, abolition desirabie, [222]
Cottenham, Earl of, his Insolvency Bill, 1837, [45-47]
County Court procedure, expense of, [184]
Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, [194], [197], [198]
Crabbe, on lawyers, [183]
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, on divorce, [125], [126], [127]
Crime and punishment, [189-212]
Criminal Appeal, Court of, [189]
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, [194-196]
Criminal Law Amendment Act, [210]
Cruelty to Animals Bill of 1811, [219]
Davey, Lord, on workmen’s compensation, [92]
Deane, Mr. Justice Bargrave, on divorce, [137]
Debt, imprisonment for, Old Testament view of, [22];
New Testament view of, [24];
Greek law of, [27];
Roman law of, [31];
in Papal Rome, [34];
in time of Henry III., [36-39];
in eighteenth century, [41], [43];
in “Pickwick,” [45];
mesne process, [45];
debates on, in 1837, [46];
in 1869, [50-57];
evils of, [59-68];
arguments against abolition, [69-71];
none in Germany, [71];
nor in France, [72];
wastefulness of system, [72];
encourages improvidence, [157-160];
in police courts, [220], [222];
political views on abolition of, [288-293]
Debtors Act, 1869, [41], [49-57], [158]
Debtors’ prisons, [41-47]
Dendy, Mr. Registrar, on divorce in County Court, [146]
Denman, Lord, speech on imprisonment for debt, [46]
Dickens, Charles, on imprisonment for debt, [45];
on the living wage, [108];
on the evidence of prisoners, [194];
on slums, [238];
on inns and innkeepers, [257-259]
D’Israeli, Benjamin, slums described in “Sybil,” [239-242]
Distress, law of, [233]

Divorce, [125-151];
in time of Edward VI., [125-128];
Act of 1857, [131];
hard cases of poor, [133-141];
necessity of using County Court, [144-146], [297]
Dogberry, abolition of discussed, [223], [224]
Edalji, [217]
Edward VI., [126]
Edward VII., [126]
Eliot, George, [174]
Elisha, and imprisonment for debt, [22], [23]
Elizabeth, Queen, her Poor Law, [276]
Employers Liability Act, 1880, [86]
Erewhon, treatment of crime in, [211]
Erskine, Lord, and cruelty to animals, [219]
Eviction, [234]
Evidence, prisoners right to give, [193];
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, [194];
of Crown not available to prisoner, [207-209]
Exekestides, [27]
False pretences, [202], [203]
Fielding, as a magistrate, [213]
Fieri facias, [39]
Fines in police courts, unfair incidence of, [221], [222];
time for payment of, [224];
statistics of, [225];
abolition of, [297]
France, no imprisonment for debt, [72];
divorce law, [143], [147];
preliminary of conciliation in, [187];
poor law, [283]
Fuller, on burning of heretics, [200]
Geographical distribution of crime, [216]
Germany, no imprisonment for working men debtors, [71];
divorce in, [147]
Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron, [37], [39]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [13], [14]
Gordon, Cosmo, Archbishop of York, on divorce, [128]
Gordon, Mr. Justice, of Australian Labour Court, [110]
Governor of gaol, charity to poor debtors, [65]
Grand jury, [181]
Grantham, Hon. Mr. Justice, [101];
on poor prisoners defence, [196]
Gray, Professor John Chipman, of Harvard, [80];
on judge-made law, [81]
Haldane, Viscount, [66], [215]
Hale, Sir Matthew, Lord Chief Justice, [100]
Halsbury, Earl of, on workmen’s compensation, [92]
Hard labour for unconvicted prisoners, [227], [228]
Headlam, John, an old-fashioned Dogberry, [227], [228], [229]
Herschell, Lord, on prisoners giving evidence, [195]
Hogarth, [10], [15]
Homestead laws of America and Canada, [293], [294], [295]

Hood, Tom, [108]
Horn, Andrew, his “Mirror of Justices,” [275]
Housing question, [236-251];
Royal Commission, 1884, [242];
Select Committee, 1902, [244]
Identification of prisoners, present methods criticised, [230], [231]
Imprisonment for debt. See [Debt].
Innkeeper, independence of, [258]
Jeremiah, and the living wage, [108], [113]
Jessel, Sir George, on imprisonment for debt, [50]
Johnson, Dr., [4];
on the poor in England, [13], [14];
on public executions, [15], [16];
on imprisonment for debt, [70];
on the formation of laws, [70]
Johnson, William, miners’ agent, his views on imprisonment for debt, [292]
Judge-made law, [79-85]
Judgment summonses, statistics of, [60], [63]
Judicial irrelevancy, [180]
Judson, Frederick N., author of “The Judiciary and the People,” [94]
Justice of peace, utility of lay justices, [231]
Kelvin, Lord, [82]
Kingsley, Charles, [108];
on slums, [238];
on teetotallers, [264-266], [270]
Kipling, Rudyard, [303]
Landlord and tenant, [233-251]
Land transfer system, assists fraud, [183]
Leniency to well to do in criminal courts, example of, [205], [206]
Licensing, class regulation of, [253];
section 4 of Act of 1904, [256];
effect of reducing number of licences, [261];
extension of hours for rich, [263];
prohibition of amusements, [267]
Living wage, [108], [109], [110]
Lysons v. Andrew Knowles, [175]
McMahon, M.P., on imprisonment for debt, [55]
Malicious injury to property, [217], [218]
Manitoba, homestead laws of, [294], [295]
Marcus Aurelius, [299], [306]
Married Women’s Property Act, undesirable use of, [161-170]
Matthew, and imprisonment for debt, [24], [25]
Maule, Mr. Justice, on divorce, [129]
Maxwell, Rev. Dr., [13], [14]
Mayence, public beer drinking at, [262]
Medical officer of health, status of, [248]

Menander, on marriage, [163]
Mesne process, arrest on, [45];
abolished, [49]
Mesnil, M. Henri, on divorce, [143]
Moryson, Fynes, [8], [11], [34], [35]
Newman, Cardinal, [307]
Ordeal of battle, [308], [309]
Overbury, Sir Thomas, [11]
Overcrowding, [245];
census statistics of, [246]
Parry, Serjeant, [99]
Peine forte et dure, [12]
Pepys, Samuel, [4]
Pickersgill, M.P., on prisoner giving evidence, [196]
Pickwick, and imprisonment for debt, [45], [47]
Piers Plowman, on debt, [75];
on law and poor, [172], [173];
on lawyers, [188]
Police courts, abolition of fines, [297]
Poor law, [271-284];
Royal Commission, report of, [272];
in time of Elizabeth, [276];
in eighteenth century, [276];
in 1834, [277];
general mixed workhouses, [278-284]
Poor man’s lawyer, necessity of, [184-187]
Poor Prisoners Defence Act, [194-197]
Priestley v. Fowler, [76-79]
Procedure and the poor, [172-188]
Public houses, [252-270]. And see [Licensing].
Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, [111], [112]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [1], [3]
Regina v. Thomas Hall, [129]
Registrars of County Courts and private practice, [72], [73]
“Reformatio Legum Ecclesasticarum, The,” [125]
Ridley, Sir Matthew White, on workmen’s compensation, [87]
Rivers Pollution Acts, [248]
Roe, Gilbert, author of “Our Judicial Oligarchy,” [86], [94]
Rogues and Vagabonds, [4-7]
Ruskin, John, [108]
Sabbatarianism, evils of, [215]
Salford quarter sessions in 1824, [17]
Salisbury, Earl of, [244], [245]
Schuster, Dr., on German system of debt collecting, [71]
Scold, common, trial and punishment of, [235]
Scots divorce, [126]
Scott, Sir William, [15]
Seisachtheia, The, [29]
Selden, John, on marriage contract, [150]
Shop lifting by ladies, [204]
Sims, George R., his “How the Poor Live,” [242], [243]
Sittlichkeit, [66]
Slums, legislation against, [236]
Smith, Judge Lumley, on divorce costs, [148], [149]

Smith, Rev. Sidney, on prisoners’ right to counsel, [190], [191];
on prisoners’ inability to give evidence, [192]
Smith, Sir A. L., Master of the Rolls, on workmen’s compensation, [89]
Smollett, [9], [42]
Snowden, Philip, M.P., and the living wage, [109];
on strikes, [111]
Socrates, on thirst, [255]
Solicitors, speculative, [175]
Solon, and imprisonment for debt, [27-31]
Starkie, Sir Thomas, [17]
Stephen, Mr. Justice, decision in telephone case, [82]
Stipendiary magistrates, want of in country, [223];
necessary in interests of justice, [231]
Sumner, Lord, [180], [181]
Swift, on lawyers, [181], [182]
Taylor, Jeremy, his prayer for debtors, [75]
Teetotallers, persecution of licence holders by, [259];
their ideals, [260];
Charles Kingsley’s views of, [264-266], [270]
Telephone, legal position of, [82], [83]
Tennant, Mrs., report on divorce, [136]
Thackeray, on prisoner giving evidence, [193]
Torrens Act, 1868, [241]
Treasury fees on Administration Orders, exorbitancy of, [121-124], [298]
Twelve Tables, The, [32]
Tyburn, [7], [15], [16]
Vinogradoff, Professor, [84]
Warrington, Harry, imprisonment for debt, [45], [46]
Webb, Mrs. Sidney, her report on poor law, [280]
Weston, Richard, trial of, [11], [12]
Whipping, punishment of, [6-9], [209-212]
Witchcraft, [100]
Workhouses, [271-284]. And see [Poor Law].
Workmen’s compensation, [76-105];
history of the law, of, [76-84];
employers liability, [86];
in Court of Appeal, [90-93];
in America, [94], [103];
[162], [286];
and conciliation, [298]
Wyrley, cattle maiming at, [219]
York, Archbishop of, on divorce, [136], [137]

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