Irish, 104; defects in system of representation in unreformed, 115; reformed, and utilitarian reform, 181; artisans and reform of, 251; omnipotence, 304; and doctrine of Church of England, 333
Parliamentary franchise, extension of, 250
Parliamentary legislation, effect of judge-made law on, 369-396 Parliamentary sovereignty, 304 Pattison, Essays quoted, 463 Pauperism, 292
Peasant proprietorship, 56
Peel, Sir Robert, and factory legisla- tion, 108, 109; and combination law, 196; founded Metropolitan police, 121 note; attitude to factory movement, 233
Peerage, privilege of, 93, 94
People's Charter, 180, 211, 239 note, 251
Picketing in trade disputes, 267, 296 Pitt, William, and corrupt boroughs, 38; and Parliament of 1800, 99 Place, Francis, 56, 173 note, 180, 184 note, 194, 195, 421, 439 Police system, 121 note Political Economy, Mill's, referred to, 243, 443
Political equality of sexes, 159 note Political power, transference of, 184 Pollock, Sir F., 360 note
Poor Law, 180, 187, 202, 210, 291 Popular Government, Maine's, 130 note, 417, 459 note
Popular traditions, absence of, in England, 461
Porson, Richard, 113
Prerogative of the Crown, 174
Press, legislation and freedom of, 434 and note Primogeniture, 56
Principles of Morals and Legislation,
Bentham's, referred to, 401 Private International Law, Westlake's, referred to, 363 note Procedure, legal: defects in 1800, 86- 94; Bentham and amendment of, 205 and note; legislation and reform of, 205-206 Property, legislation and freedom in dealing with, 201; history of law as to married women's, 369-396; effect of marriage as assignment of, 370 note; under French law, 385 note, 392; under Scottish law, 392; in England, 392
Protection, English manufacturers and,
15; attitude of landlords and farmers to, 15; and free trade, 23-25; favoured by French democracy, 60; involves disability, 150 note; Buckle on, 182 note; English self-governing colonies and, 452
Public abuses, 1800-1830, 86 Public Health Acts, 290
Public opinion, relation to law, 1-16; meaning of term, with reference to legislation, 3; close connection with legislation, 7; law-making or legisla- tive, 17; characteristics of legislative, during nineteenth century, 19; slow- ness of change in legislative, 27; con- tinuity of legislative, 30; change of, and alteration in course of legislation, 31; three main currents, 62-69; leading to Combination Act, 1800, 100; combination law reflection of, 102, 272; characteristics of judicial legislation in relation to, 359-368; relation between legislative opinion and general, 397-463
Puritan Rebellion of 1642, 82 Puritanism and law reform, 169 note
Radical Programme, 1885, quoted, 255 Railway Companies Acts, 245 Railways, management of, by State, 247
Reform Act, 1832, 19, 29, 31, 38, 42, 48, 52, 160, 176, 184-286 Reform Ministry, 38; and Church Establishment in Ireland, 332 Reformation, 35
Religious liberty and legislation, 203 Republicanism, democratic, 440 Revolution Settlement, 71, 77, 78 Ricardo, 426, 427
Right of association, 95-102, 190-200, 266-272, Appendix, Note I., 465- 475
Rights, religious belief and political, 29
Roebuck, J. R., 168
Rolle, Chief-Justice, 169 note Roman Catholicism, revival in England, 437 and note
Roman Catholics, penal laws against, 28, 80; and Act of Union, 105; removal of political disabilities of, 342
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 168 Ruskin, John, on Dickens, 418 Russell, Lord John, 438
Sadler, Michael, connection with factory
movement, 225-226 Salvation Army, creation of, 437 Scott, Thomas, autobiography, 400
Scott, Sir Walter, 42 and note, 114,
117; Familiar Letters quoted, 119 Senior, N. W., 410
Sexes, political equality of, 159 note Shaftesbury, Lord, connection with factory movement, 226-231; quoted, 233
Sidgwick, H., 18; Development of European Polity referred to, 46 note; on John Mill, 427
"Six Acts" of 1819, 95, 102-103 Slavery, War of Secession in relation
to abolition of, 16, 26; O'Connell and, 177; abolition justified, 459
Smith, Adam, and free trade, 24;
Wealth of Nations referred to, 27; and trade combinations, 195 Smith, Sydney, 114, 168; on the Reform Bill of 1830, 212; and Church Establishment, 317 Socialism, and factory movement, 237; and Radical Programme of 1885,
South Africa, war in, 453 Southey, Colloquies
quoted, Macaulay on, 214 note; and infant labour, 222; connection with factory movement, 223-224
"Speenhamland Act of Parliament," 101
Spencer, Herbert, 17, 145 note
State, regulation of public labour by, 56, 238; and elementary education, 275 State aid or protection, legislation re- lating to, 259-263
State control, Liberalism and, 39 Stephen, Sir J. F., 96 note, 140 note,
205 note, 360 note; History quoted, 99, 192 note, 442 note; and Mill's On Liberty, 425 note
Stephen, Leslie, English Utilitarians
quoted, 113; on Harriet Martineau, 415
Stephenson, George, 114
Strikes, combination law and, 195, 269 Suffrage, introduction of household, 247-257
Swift, Works quoted, 364 note
Sybil, Disraeli's, 232
Taylor v. Meads, case of, 377 note Ten Hours Bill, 231-239 Tennyson, Lord, 114 Test Act, Walpole and, 11 Thirty-nine Articles, 353, 435 Thurlow, Lord, legislation associated with, 81, 376
Times, quotations from, 286, 445 note Tocqueville, Democracy in America referred to, 50; Souvenirs quoted, 254
Toleration Act, 77, 78
Tory philanthropy and factory move- ment, 219-239
Tracts for the Times, 315, 322
Trade, corporate, development of, 244; characteristics of, 247
Trade combinations, transitory character of, 217, 218
Trade disputes, governmental inter- vention in, 273
Trade unionism, Benthamites and, 155; O'Connell opposed to, 178; Francis Place and, 180, 197; and combina- tion law, 192, 240, 266-270, 296; Cobden on, 198; English judges and, 198; connection with Chartism, 239-242
Trading, municipal, 283; Darwin on, 284
Treatise on the Principles of Pleading, Serjeant Stephen's, referred to, 363
United States, expression of opinion in, 7; legal conservatism in, 8; Federal Constitution, 9; State Constitution, 9; War of Secession and abolition of slavery, 16, 26; elaborate party system, 54; respect for obligation of contracts in, 150 note; individual freedom in, 308
University reform, 348-349
University tests, 347, 349, Appendix, Note III., 477-481
Usury laws, repeal of, 33, 45, 189 Utilitarianism, foundation of legislative,
141; dogma of laissez faire and, 145; in development of English law, 168; legislative, 174
Utility, Bentham on Wedderburn's dictum, 302
War of Secession, and abolition of slavery, 16, 26; influence of result in England, 250
Warren's Ten Thousand a Year referred to, 92 note, 327
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