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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

Peter the Great, 4

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

Rates, Church, 350

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

Richelieu, 51

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

Sacheverell, 325

Sadler, Michael, connection with factory

movement, 225-226
Salvation Army, creation of, 437
Scott, Thomas, autobiography, 400

note

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

Shelley, 114

Sidgwick, H., 18; Development of
European Polity referred to, 46 note;
on John Mill, 427

Simeon, 108, 118

"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

note

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,

255

South Africa, war in, 453
Southey, Colloquies

214;

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

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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

Voltaire, 146

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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