proper field of;
makes the bulk of modern law;
not supposed to be difficult;
none in modern sense before the Norman conquest;
early growth of in England;
beginning of new legislation;
sociological only considered;
State;
our subject;
early necessity of;
Anglo-Saxon;
early English laws recognized order law;
form of in England;
apt to cease under personal government;
American in general;
of the British Empire, index to;
growth of constructive legislation in America;
radical tendency of;
to enact unconstitutional laws;
division of into subjects;
method of in United States;
form of, discussed in chapter XX;
should not be delegated to commissions;
final discussion;
no book upon the contents of.
Legislatures (_see also Parliament_),
history of;
to make new laws a modern conception;
origin of representative;
early, included all fighting men;
annual sessions, history of;
biennial or quadrennial sessions of;
moral cowardice of;
modern distrust of;
sessions of limited.
Legitimacy, common law as to.
Lent, observation of, required by statute of James I.
Levees on the Mississippi.
Liability (_see Corporation_).
Libel, and slander,
legislation relating to;
against government;
modern statute abolishing law.
Liberties, charter of (_see Charter_),
declared by early statutes;
restoration of in England;
personal, secured by writs _de odio et atia_ and habeas corpus.
"Liberty Clause," the great.
Liberty (_see also Personal Liberty, Life and Liberty, etc_.),
right to, recognized in Magna Charta;
special to Kentishmen;
in labor matters;
of trade.
Licensing of trade, laws concerning.
Life, liberty, and property (_see Constitutional Law_),
makes a convenient division of legislation;
identity of constitutional rights to.
Life insurance,
must be given the negro on the same terms as the white;
of children forbidden.
Lilleshall case cited.
Limitations, statute of,
for prosecutions for crime, dates from 1509.
Limited liability (see _Corporation_).
Liquor (_see Prohibition_),
interstate commerce in; (see _Intoxicating Liquor_).
Litigation,
early, always by way of justification.
Lobbying,
laws against (_see Bribery_);
acts.
Local option (_see Intoxicating Liquor_).
Local self-government preserved in municipal law.
London dock case.
London, liberties and customs of recognized in Magna Charta;
laws of relating