ing.
Patents (_see Monopolies_) regulated by statute of monopoly.
Paupers (_see Poor Laws_).
Peachy's monopoly case.
Peers (_see House of Lords_) may not speak in elections.
Penology, principles of.
Pensions, by way of exemption from taxation;
vast increase of in United States;
to Confederate soldiers;
discussion of.
Peonage laws, etc.;
cases.
Perrers, Alice, legislated against;
women may not be lawyers.
Personal government under Henry VIII;
struggle for.
Personal liberty, Anglo-Saxon idea of;
English idea of;
recognized in Magna Charta;
in labor contracts.
Personal property (_see Property_).
Personal rights, chapter relating to, chapter XVI.
Petition of the Commons to Parliament not received.
Petition of Right, its bearing upon standing armies, etc.;
right to.
Petrie, Flinders, quoted.
Philadelphia railway strike.
Philip and Mary, legislation of.
Photographs, legislation to prevent.
Physicians, may be compelled to testify;
privilege of.
Picketing, statute against;
in modern English legislation;
by modern American statutes.
"Piece work," work by contract, first permitted by a statute of 1360.
Pinkerton men, laws against;
armed guards forbidden in Oklahoma;
armed guards permitted in Europe;
legislation against.
Pins must be double headed and have the heads fast soldered.
Pittsburg, riots in.
Plague (_see Black Death_).
Players (_see Actors_).
Police power, as controlling property;
legislation concerning;
definition of;
increased legislation in;
growth of boards and commissions;
definition of by Shaw, C.J.;
history of;
extends to offensive trades, smells, or sounds but not sights;
as to sweat-shops, tenements;
no limit to;
legislation based on moral reasons;
sanitary laws;
for safety of public;
as to nuisances;
prohibition of self-regardant acts;
pure food laws;
factory acts, etc.;
chapter concerning, chapter XVIII.
Police protection, guaranteed by liability of the hundred or county;
the power;
modern extension of.
Political rights, chapter concerning, chapter XIV, as to militia
duties;
interference with.
Polygamy not guaranteed by the right to free religion.
Pooling of bids in public work unlawful.
Pools, unlawful (see _Trusts_).
Poor laws, first origin in England, A.D. 1388;
of Elizabeth.
Poor, support of, in towns where born, 1388;
support of, the duty of the State.
Pope, powers of in England;
authori