w king's person.
Common right shall be done to rich and poor.
Commons (_see House of Commons_).
Commonwealth of England, constitution of.
Commonwealth _vs._ Hunt, 4 Met. 111, case of cited.
Communism, definition of (_see Socialism_).
Company stores forbidden;
so, tenements;
company insurance.
Compulsory labor (_see Peonage_).
Compurgation, trial by.
Concealed weapons (_see Arms_).
Confirmation of charters.
Congress, usurpation of powers by.
Conscience, rights of (_see Religion_).
Conscription (_see Military Service_),
does not exist among English peoples.
Consent, age of,
in rape;
in marriage;
the age raised as high as twenty-one;
in criminal matters.
Conservation (_see Forest Reserves_);
of rivers, dates from statute of Henry VIII.
Conspiracy,
first statute against in 1305;
doctrine first applied to maintaining lawsuits;
next to combination between mechanics or guilds;
reason of common law doctrine of;
definition of;
determined by intent or ethical purpose;
early statutes probably declared merely the common law;
definition of in statute of 1304;
definition of as evolved in history;
finally includes intent to injure another person in his liberties as
well as results actually criminal;
reason of doctrine of;
doctrine under common law;
remedies for;
combinations necessarily attended with the use of unlawful means;
unlawful act is the combining, not any action done;
actual result unimportant;
intent the question;
punishment far more severe than for offences done under it;
always unlawful, may not amount to criminality;
principle of extended to trades unions and their by-laws;
of masons, etc., forbidden in 1425;
against the law or customs of the staple town made criminal in 1333;
general discussion of law of, chapter XII;
continuing conspiracies, doctrine of;
extension of, by new statutes;
early English law of, discussed with the modern law of combinations;
to maintain lawsuits;
Conspiracy and the Trade Disputes acts (_English_);
copied in Maryland;
changing of law recommended in labor matters;
English statute of, copied in Oklahoma;
doctrine of, contended for by labor unions.
Constitutional law (_see Unconstitutional_),
growth of in America;
applied by the courts in early England;
Magna Charta to be interpreted by Ordainours;
anticipates in earliest times U.S. Supreme Court.
Constitution, State,
modern f